10 27 dozens of civilians and police officers in Cajatambo between 1987 and 1992, and most of those crimes 28 were committed with excessive viciousness, with the victims’ bodies displayed to the public. 47. In response to Shining Path’s growing presence in the northern provinces of Lima department, political and military control of that region was transferred to the Army for a lengthy period 29 beginning in the early 1990s. According to testimony documented by the CVR, between 1989 and 1992 the National Civil Police and the Army conducted counteroffensive operations in Cajatambo province, during which they arbitrarily arrested, tortured, and forcibly disappeared people accused of collaborating 30 with Shining Path. These testimonies indicate that between April 1991 and May 1992, at least three villagers were arrested by Army patrols in Nunumia, Gorgor district, and taken to the Cajatambo 31 Countersubversive Base; since then, their whereabouts has remained unknown. D. Facts deemed proven by the Commission 1. Jeremías Osorio Rivera’s arrest and disappearance at the hands of members of the Peruvian Army 48. Jeremías Osorio Rivera was born on December 4, 1962, in Gorgor district, Cajatambo 32 province, department of Lima. His parents were Faustino Osorio de Salas and Juana Rivera Lozano, both deceased, and he has seven siblings: Alejandrina, Elena, Porfirio, Adelaida, Silvia, Mario, and Efraín 33 Osorio Rivera. In 1985 he entered a partnership with Santa Fe Gaytán Calderón, with whom he had the 34 following children: Edith Laritza, Neyda Rocío, Vanesa, and Jeremías Osorio Gaytán. 49. Mr. Osorio Rivera lived with his family and his mother in a hamlet located an hour’s walk from the village of Cochas-Paca, in Gorgor district, where he worked his smallholding and raised and sold …continuation 26 Annex 17: Final Report of the CVR, 2003, Vol. IV, Chapter 1, The Violence in the Regions, 1.6 Complementary Axes, pp. 473 to 476, available at www.cverdad.org.pe/ifinal/index.php. 27 Annex 17: Final Report of the CVR, 2003, Vol. IV, Chapter 1, The Violence in the Regions, 1.6 Complementary Axes, pp. 479 to 480, available at www.cverdad.org.pe/ifinal/index.php. 28 Annex 18: Final Report of the CVR, 2003, Annex IV, Cases and Victims Recorded by the CVR, Vol. XVII, Cases in the Department of Lima reported to the CVR, Cajatambo Province, pp. 128 to 133, available at www.cverdad.org.pe/ifinal/pdf/Tomo%20-%20ANEXOS/PDFSAnexo4/LIMA.pdf. 29 Annex 19: Supreme Decree No. 016-DE/SG, published in the official journal El Peruano on April 2, 1991. That decree extended the state of emergency in Lima department and its provinces for a period of sixty days. Annex to the petitioners’ communication of November 25, 2010, received by the IACHR on December 8 of that year. Partially illegible document. 30 Annex 18: Final Report of the CVR, 2003, Annex IV, Cases and Victims Recorded by the CVR, Vol. XVII, Cases in the Department of Lima reported to the CVR, Cajatambo Province, pp. 128 to 133, available at www.cverdad.org.pe/ifinal/pdf/Tomo%20-%20ANEXOS/PDFSAnexo4/LIMA.pdf. 31 Those individuals are the alleged victim Jeremías Osorio Rivera, Humberto Espinoza León, and Rodolfo Fabián Villareal Enríquez. See Annex 18: Final Report of the CVR, 2003, Annex IV, Cases and Victims Recorded by the CVR, Vol. XVII, Cases in the Department of Lima reported to the CVR, Cajatambo Province, pp. 131 to 133, available at www.cverdad.org.pe/ifinal/pdf/Tomo%20-%20ANEXOS/PDFSAnexo4/LIMA.pdf. 32 Annex 19: Verification Report of the Office of the People’s Defender No. 5442-2006-OD/LIMA, Section I. Annex to the petitioners’ communication of November 25, 2010, received by the IACHR on December 8 of that year. 33 Annex 19: Verification Report of the Office of the People’s Defender No. 5442-2006-OD/LIMA, Section VI, No. 1. Annex 20: Investigation statement given by Porfirio Osorio Rivera on October 18, 2004, to the office of the Specialized Provincial Prosecutor for Forced Disappearances, Extrajudicial Killings, and Exhumations of Clandestine Graves (hereinafter “Specialized Provincial Prosecutor’s office”), p. 1. Annex to the petitioners’ communication of November 25, 2010, received by the IACHR on December 8 of that year. 34 Annex 21: Birth certificates of Edith Laritza, Neyda Rocío, Vanesa, and Jeremías Osorio Gaytán. Annex 22: Witness statement of Santa Fe Gaytán Calderón, given on July 7, 2006, to the Mixed Court of Cajatambo, case file No. 077-2005-P, p. 1. Documents enclosed with the petitioners’ communication of November 25, 2010, received by the IACHR on December 8 of that year.