the persons who were disappeared whose names were provided by their family members, among which were those of Mr. González González and Mr. Tassino Asteazu. 33. The Investigative Commission determined that disappearances often occurred “after the intervention of members of the Joint Forces, who […] detained and took [the victims] from their homes,” many of whom were last seen detained in military establishments.21 34. Presidential Order 858/000,22 of August 9, 2000, created a Peace Commission with a diverse membership and the commitment to “receive, analyze, classify and compile information on the forced disappearances that occurred during the de facto regime.” 35. The Peace Commission presented a Final Report, dated April 10, 2003, in which it indicated that “it is firmly convinced that serious violations of human rights were perpetrated during the de facto regime.” It asserted that “State agents, in exercising their public function, acted outside the law and employed unlawful repressive measures, such as torture, unlawful detention in clandestine centers and even more serious cases of forced disappearance.”23 The Report expressed that “the remains of the disappeared persons who died beginning in 1973 […] were exhumed towards the end of 1984, incinerated or cremated using informal ovens or calderas […] and finally thrown into the Río de la Plata in a zone near the Barrio Paso de la Arena, which has been precisely identified.”24 In its Merits Report, the Inter-American Commission stated that by Decree of April 10, “the President of the Republic fully accepted ‘the conclusions of the Final Report of the Peace Commission and assumed that they constituted the official version on the situation of the persons disappeared during the de facto regime.’” 36. Similarly, the Report of the Investigative Commission [of the National Army] on the Ultimate Fate of 33 Citizens Detained between June 27, 1973 and March 1, 1985 (hereinafter “Report on the Ultimate Fate of 33 Citizens), of August 8, 2005, which was established by express order of the President of the Republic, stated with respect to the persons detained that: When a detained person died before, during or after being interrogated, the system of justice was not involved and, in some cases, there was information that the person had fled, which resulted in a communiqué seeking his arrest, but the citizen had already died. In some cases, there was simply a communiqué requesting his indictment in order to conceal his death.25 Final Report of the Parliamentary Investigative Commission of the Chamber of Representatives on the Situation of Disappeared Persons and the Facts that Motivated that Situation (evidence file, annex XXXVII, fs. 4074 to 5198). 21 Presidential Order 858/000, of August 9, 2000 (evidence file, annex XLIV to the answering brief, fs. 5337 to 5517). 22 Final Report of the Peace Commission, April 10, 2003, paras. 42 ff. (evidence file, annex XXXVI to the answering brief, fs. 3989 to 4070). 23 24 Final Report of the Peace Commission, April 10, 2003, para. 52. Report of the Investigative Commission on the Ultimate Fate of 33 Citizens (evidence file, annex 4 to the Report on the Merits, fs. 1118 to 1135). 25 12