24 C.2. Arrest and subsequent disappearance of Mr. Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas 74. In October 1971, Rainer Ibsen Cardenas, at approximately 22 years of age, was arrested in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and taken to a facility of the Department for Political Order in the city of La Paz. He was later taken to the detention center of Achocalla.80 Mr. Ibsen Cárdenas was deprived of liberty for approximately nine months.81 According to statements rendered by some who were confined in that center, not disputed by the State, in June 1972, at least three people detained in that center were victims of extrajudicial executions. Among the people mentioned was Mr. Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas.82 75. On June 22, 1972, the morning newspaper Presencia referred to the death of Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas in an article entitled, “Three ELN militants died in an escape attempt.” That newspaper cited the text of an official communiqué of the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of the Interior, dated June 21, 1972, which indicated that: “as the result of a skirmish that occurred when some detainees of the NLA [National Liberation Army] tried to escape, Enrique Ortega Hinojosa, (a) ‘Víctor Guerra,’ Raines (sic) Ibsen Cárdenas[,] (a) ‘Pedro’[,] and Jorge Helguero Suárez[,] (a) ‘Manuel’ died in the shootout, and two security 80 Cf. Declaration rendered before public notary (affidavit) by Mrs. Ledy Catoira Moreno (case file on the merits, volume III, folios 669 to 671); declaration rendered before public notary (affidavit) by Mrs. Hilda Saavedra Serrano (case file on the merits, volume III, folio 666); declaration rendered before public notary (affidavit) by Mr. Estevan Renato Díaz Matta (case file on the merits, volume III, folios 651 to 652); manuscript death certificate of Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas, June 21, 1972 (case file of appendixes to the application, appendix 16, folio 1793); Association of Relatives of the Detainees, Disappeared Persons and Martyrs for National Liberation (ASOFAMD) and Bolivian Labour Headquarters (COB), Banzer: Genius and figure… Not to be forgotten. Never again. [Banzer: Genio y figura... Para que no se olvide. Nunca más.] Crear Impresiones Publishing House. La Paz, 2008 (case file of appendixes to the application, appendix 5, folios 1570, 1610 and 1625 to 1626), available at: http://www.somosunoradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/1-dictadura-de-hugo-banzer-suarez-para-que-nose-olvide-violacion-al-derecho-de-asociacion-y-trabajo-2.doc (last visit: August 2, 2010), and press release published on June 22, 1972 in the morning paper Presencia, “Three activists of the National Liberation Army (NLA) died in an attempt of escape” (case file of appendixes to the application, appendix 29, folio 2453, and case file on the merits, volume III, folio 1068). At the public hearing (supra párr. 8), Tito Ibsen Castro declared that his brother “disappear[ed] when he was going to the university only with his materiales and a shirt. Subsequently, [in] 1972[, …] the press releases [mentioned] that he had died in an alleged attempt of escape […]”. 81 Cf. Association of Relatives of the Detainees, Disappeared Persons and Martyrs for National Liberation (ASOFAMD) and Bolivian Labour Headquarters (COB). Banzer: Genius and figure… Not to be forgotten. Never again. La Paz, Crear Publishing House, 2008 (case file of appendixes to the application, appendix 5, folio 1570 and 1625). 82 Cf. Declaration rendered before public notary (affidavit) by Mr. Estevan Renato Díaz Matta (case file on the merits, volume III, folio 652); declaration rendered before public notary (affidavit) by Mrs. Hilda Saavedra Serrano (case file on the merits, volume III, folio 666), and declaration rendered before public notary (affidavit) by Mrs. Ledy Catoira Moreno (case file on the merits, volume III, folios 670 to 671). See also, Association of Relatives of the Detainees, Disappeared Persons and Martyrs for National Liberation (ASOFAMD) and Bolivian Labour Headquarters (COB). Banzer: Genius and figure… Not to be forgotten. Never again. La Paz, Crear Publishing House, 2008 (case file of appendixes to the application, anexo 5, folios 1570, 1610 and 1625 to 1626), available at: http://www.somosunoradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/1-dictadura-de-hugo-banzersuarez-para-que-no-se-olvide-violacion-al-derecho-de-asociacion-y-trabajo-2.doc (last visit: August 2, 2010); press release published on May, 1996 in newspaper La Razón, “In Bolivia, there are about 240 cases of forced disappearance to be solved” (case file of appendixes to the application, appendix 29, folio 2456), and press release published on February 18, in newspaper La Nación, “Justo Sarmiento lies, he tortured me in El Pari” (case file of appendixes to the brief of pleadings and motions, PD-120, folio 2379). The interviewee stated that: his son, Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas, was detained, because at that time the young people that are now mirista militants were known as National Liberation Army (NLA) members. This young man was killed at La Paz when I was imprisoned there, he was given fugitive law and then he was killed.”