18 88. In February 2001, the Office of the Special Provincial Prosecutor sent the autopsy protocols performed on the fourteen MRTA members on April 23, 1997, to the Central Division of Thanatological and Auxiliary Examinations (DICETA) requesting the latter to determine “whether the autopsies were performed in keeping with the medical and legal standards in effect for violent deaths.”76 89. With no possibility of determining the causes of death based on the aforementioned autopsies, the Office of the Prosecutor ordered the exhumation of the bodies so that a group made up of forensic medicine experts, other experts from the Criminalistics Division of the National Police and the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team, and experts Dr. Clyde Collins Snow and José Pablo Baraybar, 77 could identify the people who had died and determine the causes of their deaths. The office also ordered expert examinations by the Criminalistics Division of the National Police of Peru and by the 78 Genetic Identification Laboratory of the University of Granada, Spain, for DNA tests. 90. On August 20, 2001, Hidetaka Ogura, the former First Secretary of the Embassy of Japan in Lima and a former hostage, sent a letter to the Peruvian judiciary stating what he had seen on the day the residence of the Ambassador was retaken, in relation to the three MRTA members known as “Tito” and “Cynthia” and a third, short individual later identified as Víctor Salomón Peceros Pedraza79. 91. On May 24, 2002, the Office of the Special Provincial Criminal Prosecutor filed criminal charges against Vladimiro Montesinos Torres, Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos, Roberto Edmundo Huamán Ascurra, Augusto Jaime Patiño, José Williams Zapata, Luis Alatrista Rodríguez, Carlos Tello Aliaga, Hugo Víctor Robles del Castillo, Víctor Hugo Sánchez Morales, Jesús Zamudio Aliaga, Raúl Huaracaya Lovón, Walter Martín Becerra Noblecilla, José Alvarado Díaz, Manuel Antonio Paz Ramos, Jorge Félix Díaz, Juan Carlos Moral Rojas and César Rojas Villanueva, for an alleged offense committed against the life, body and health –qualified homicide – of Eduardo Nicolás Cruz Sánchez, Herma Luz Meléndez Cueva and Víctor Salomón Peceros Pedraza. He also filed charges against Juan Fernando Vianderas Ottone, Martín Solari de la Fuente and Herbert Danilo Ángeles Villanueva. Finally, he decided not to 80 initiate proceedings “for now” in the deaths of the other MRTA members “as it was necessary, in any …continuation Appendix 20, Criminal complaint lodged by the Office of the Prosecutor on May 24, 2002, appendix to the State’s communication of August 5, 2008. Appendix 3, Non-certified copy of the order to initiate proceedings of June 11, 2002, appendix to the State’s communication of August 5, 2008 and February 6, 2009 and appendix to the representatives’ communication of April 22, 2008. Appendix to the State’s communication of December 1, 2003, appendix submitted at the public hearing. 76 Appendix 7, Report of the forensic medical examinations performed by the Institute of Forensic Medicine, appendix submitted by the petitioners on February 3, 2003, Volume V. 77 Appendix 7, Report of the forensic medical examinations performed by the Institute of Forensic Medicine, appendix submitted by the petitioners on February 3, 2003, Volume V. Appendix 1, TRC, 2.66. EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS IN THE RESIDENCE OF THE AMBASSADOR OF JAPAN (1997), TRC, http://www.cverdad.org.pe/ifinal/pdf/TOMO%20VII/Casos%20Ilustrativos-UIE/2.66.%20%20ENABJADA%20JAPON.pdf See also, Appendix 3, Non-certified copy of the order to initiate proceedings of June 11, 2002, appendix to the State’s communication of August 5, 2008 and February 6, 2009 and appendix to the representatives’ communication of April 22, 2008. Appendix to the State’s communication of December 1, 2003, appendix submitted at the public hearing. 78 Appendix 1, TRC, 2.66. EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS IN THE RESIDENCE OF THE AMBASSADOR OF JAPAN (1997), TRC, http://www.cverdad.org.pe/ifinal/pdf/TOMO%20VII/Casos%20Ilustrativos-UIE/2.66.%20%20ENABJADA%20JAPON.pdf See also, Appendix 3, Non-certified copy of the order to initiate proceedings of June 11, 2002, appendix to the State’s communication of August 5, 2008 and February 6, 2009 and appendix to the representatives’ communication of April 22, 2008. Appendix to the State’s communication of December 1, 2003, appendix submitted at the public hearing. 79 Appendix 5, August 20, 2001, letter sent by Hidetaka Ogura to the Judiciary of Peru, appendix to the representatives’ communication of April 22, 2008. Testimony given before the IACHR at the public hearing on February 28, 2005. Testimony authenticated before the TRC in a May 21, 2003 letter. 80 Adolfo Trigoso Torres or Adolfo Trigozo Torres, Roli Rojas Fernández, Néstor Fortunato Cerpa Cartolini, Iván Meza Espíritu, Bosco Honorato Salas Huamán, Luz Dina Villoslada Rodríguez, and NN four and thirteen.