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had grabbed her brothers, had thrown them to the ground, had kicked and
trampled them, and had put them in the trunk of a car. The witness described
the state in which the bodies of the alleged victims were found at the morgue.
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Testimony of Jacinta Peralta Allccarima, mother of the daughter
of one of the alleged victims
Rafael was her companion, but they did not live together. They shared many
moments, both with friends and with the next of kin. On June 21, 1991 she
was two weeks pregnant. Rafael did not know for certain that she was
pregnant because they had not done the definitive medical tests. When she
found out that she was pregnant she felt an enormous joy, because it was the
fruit of the man she loved.
Nora Emely, her daughter, is currently 12 years old. When she was born, her
health situation was very delicate; the physicians who examined her even told
her that she might have to interrupt the pregnancy, because she needed an
operation. For the witness, this was another blow, as she had lost Rafael and
she did not want to lose her daughter too, so she decided to continue the
pregnancy. She has raised her daughter, always with support from the Gómez
Paquiyauri family, who were with her from the start.
However, her daughter lacks a father and she knows that this “is a lack that
we cannot fill, no matter how much warmth, how much love we have given
her.” When she was 2 or 3 years old, the girl started attending a childcare
center and she began to feel the lack of her father more, due to the activities
where he was absent.
Her grandfather on the father’s side recognized her daughter legally, but the
girl has always wanted to know who her father was, and she has had to tell
her the truth. When her daughter was born, at the hospital they asked who
her father was, but out of fear she did not give the real name, because she
was aware of what the family was suffering. Every day, in the media, they
were presented as a “family of terrorists,” and they said there that they had
died in a terrorist confrontation.
When she saw the need to register her daughter’s birth, they decided to give
her the grandfather’s surname, because her daughter is Gómez and she had
to have the surname. This has also created confusion for her, because since
she was very small she has known that he is her grandfather, and she has
often asked why she was given his surname and not her father’s. At school
and other activities this has been a problem; it has often been difficult to
explain the situation to the teachers.
She knows that her daughter feels bad about all this, because she would like
things to be much clearer, and there are some that she still cannot
understand. She asks that the daughter be recognized as Rafael’s daughter,
but for this she wants Rafael’s name to be cleansed and for him to no longer
be labeled as a terrorist, as her daughter has the right to feel proud of her
father; even though she did not know him, she feels very fond of his memory.
She did not correct her daughter’s surname due to the political persecution
suffered by the family, because they did much damage to them, and she has
sought to avoid this also affecting the girl. For example, she worried that her