2 León, Tomás Livias Ortega and Alfonso Rodas Alvítez. Furthermore, it requested the Court to decide whether the State of Peru had violated Articles 8 (Right to a Fair Trial), 25 (Judicial Protection) and 13 (Freedom of Thought and Expression) of the American Convention as a consequence of the promulgation and application of Amnesty Laws No. 26479 and No. 26492. Lastly, it requested the Court to determine whether Peru had failed to comply with Articles 1(1) (Obligation to Respect Rights) and 2 (Domestic Legal Remedies) of the American Convention on Human Rights, as a result of the promulgation and application of Amnesty Laws No. 26479 and No. 26492 and the violation of the rights indicated above. The Commission also requested the Court to call on Peru: a) To reopen the judicial investigation into the facts; b) To grant adequate integral reparation for material and moral damage to the next of kin of the 15 alleged victims who were executed and the four alleged victims who are alive; c) To abrogate or annul Law No. 26479 that conceded “a general amnesty to military, police and civilian personnel for various reasons” and Law No. 26492 that “[d]efines … [the] interpretation and [the] scope of [the] amnesty granted by Law No. 26479”; and d) To pay the costs and expenses incurred by the alleged victims and/or their next of kin while litigating this case both in the domestic sphere and before the Commission and the Court, together with reasonable fees for their lawyers. II FACTS 2. In section III of its application, the Commission described the facts that constituted the origin of this case. It indicated that: a) At approximately 11.30 p.m. on November 3, 1991, six heavily-armed individuals burst into the building located at No. 840 Jirón Huanta in the neighborhood known as Barrios Altos in Lima. When this irruption occurred, a “pollada” was being held, that is, a party to collect funds in order to repair the building. The assailants arrived in two vehicles, one a jeep Cherokee and the other a Mitsubishi. These cars had police lights and sirens, which were turned off when they reached the place where the events took place; b) The individuals, who ranged from 25 to 30 years of age, covered their faces with balaclava helmets and obliged the alleged victims to lie on the floor. Once they were on the floor, the assailants fired at them indiscriminately for about two minutes, killing 15 people and seriously injuring another four; one of the latter, Tomás Livias Ortega, is now permanently disabled. Subsequently, and with the same speed with which they had arrived, the assailants fled in the two vehicles, sounding their sirens once again; c) The survivors stated that the detonations sounded “muffled”, which appears to suggest that silencers were used. During the investigation, the