6 persons. On July 14, 1995, the Commission requested the State to adopt pertinent measures to guarantee the personal safety and right to life of all the survivors, their next of kin and the lawyers related to the Barrios Altos case. 6. On October 31, 1995, the State answered the Commission’s request (supra para. 4), and, on November 8, 1995, the Commission forwarded the communication received from Peru to the petitioners and asked them to submit their comments on this document within 45 days. A few days later, on November 21, the State submitted another communication to the Commission, and this was forwarded to the petitioners on November 30, 1995, so that they could submit their comments on this document within 45 days. On January 17, 1996, the petitioners transmitted their comments on Peru’s communications, and these comments were forwarded to Peru on March 28, 1996. 7. On January 29, 1996, the Asociación Pro-Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) submitted a petition to the Commission on behalf of the next of kin of the 15 people who were killed and the four who were injured in the events that occurred in Barrios Altos. On March 26, 1996, the Commission registered this petition as case No. 11601. Subsequently, on May 23, 1996, the Comisión de Derechos Humanos (COMISDEH) of the National Human Rights Coordinator submitted the case of Filomeno León León and Natividad Condorcahuana, respectively killed and injured, during the Barrios Altos incident. This information was forwarded to the State on June 21, 1996, so that it could submit its comments. 8. On May 29, 1996, Peru sent its answer to the Commission, and this was forwarded to the petitioners on June 21, 1996, so that they could submit their comments, which they did on August 1, 1996. On October 15, 1996, the Commission forwarded the petitioners’ communication to the State and gave it 30 days to submit its comments. 9. On September 23, 1996, the Commission received a petition from the Fundación Ecuménica para el Desarrollo y la Paz (FEDEPAZ), member of the National Human Rights Coordinator, in the name of the next of kin of Javier Manuel Ríos Rojas and Manuel Isaías Ríos Pérez, two of those who died in the events in Barrios Altos. This information was transmitted to Peru on February 12, 1997. 10. The same February 12, 1997, the Commission joined the petition submitted in case No. 11528 and the petitions that were part of case No. 11601, so that they all formed part of case No. 11528. 11. On March 4, 1997, a hearing of this case was held during the Commission’s Ninety-fifth session. 12. On May 1, 1997, the State replied to the information that the Commission had transmitted on February 12, 1997 (supra para. 9); this communication was forwarded to the petitioners on May 27, 1997. 13. In a letter of June 11, 1997, the petitioners requested that the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and the Legal Defense Institute (IDL) should be included as co-petitioners in this case.