89.
On August 19, 1992, Teresa Díaz Aparicio left home located in the district of Rimac, Lima,
with her brother Federico Díaz Aparicio heading to the bus stop so she could go to work at the Universidad
Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, where she was a teacher. 66 According to the testimony of her brother, the
alleged victim never reached her workplace, never came back home, never again contacted her family,
friends, next of kin or co-workers. In his statement at the inquiry he indicated that “the only time that his
sister Teresa Aparicio had gone absent without contacting anyone was after her first detention in 1989.”67
According to the testimonies appearing in the case file, the mother of the alleged victim had asked about her
among her co-workers, friends, and other relatives. She had also gone to hospitals, clinics, the central morgue
of Lima and Callao, and to the police, without obtaining any information about the whereabouts of her
daughter.68
90.
Commission:
On July 31, 2002, Federico Díaz Aparicio gave his testimony to the Truth and Reconciliation
The declarant indicates that, in August 1992, he accompanied his sister <TERESA DIAZ
APARICIO> to the bus stop and never again saw her, she was presumably detained by
personnel of DINCOTE on a public street of the District of {RIMAC}, {LIMA}. Although there
are no witnesses, this allegation is based on the continuous monitoring of the victim and her
previous detention by DINCOTE.
[…]
The fact was not reported out of fear, her family continued to be monitored by DINCOTE and
the victim’s mother was suffering from very ill health […]69.
91.
Petronilla Viviana Becerra Raimondi, the first cousin of the mother of the alleged victim, in
statements made at the Public Prosecutor’s Office, indicated that before her death, Graciela Aparicio Pastor
had told her that her daughter left home to go to work in 1992 and never came back. She also stated that the
mother of Teresa Díaz Aparicio:
Had looked for her in the morgue, at the Universidad San Marcos itself with the authorities of
the school where she worked, without obtaining any response, and even reported the
incident to the National Police Force and resorted to a human rights commission.
[…]
[B]efore dying, my aunt Graciela Aparicio Pastor mentioned that, a few days after the
disappearance of her daughter, she found a piece of clothing “underwear with dry blood”
(sic) in her daughter’s bedroom, which she presumed had been entered into by the door of
the hallway, which she found forced open, as a result of which she presumed that they had
killed her daughter.
Regarding any specific detention, she did not mention it, but she did remember that she said
that, on one occasion, the police entered the School of Liberal Arts of the Universidad
66 Annex 13. Preliminary inquiry statement made by Federico Díaz Aparicio. Volume II, page 667. Case file No. 11-2007 of the
Second Supraprovincial Criminal Prosecution Service. Communication from the petitioners of May 22, 2012.
67 Annex 13. Preliminary inquiry statement made by Federico Díaz Aparicio. Volume II, page 667. Case file No. 11-2007 of the
Second Supraprovincial Criminal Prosecution Service. Communication from the petitioners of May 22, 2012.
68 Annex 14. Report adding to Report No. 16-2005-JUS/CNDH-SE/CESAPI and annexes with the transcription appearing in the
Annex submitted by the state by means of Note No. 7-5-M/087 of February 16, 2005: Ministry of the Interior, Official letter No. 1242005-IN/0105 of January 26, 2005.
69 Annex 15. Testimony No. 1000974 given by Federico Díaz Aparicio at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, July 31,
2002. Annex 7 of the communication from the petitioners of May 22, 2012.