this communication was forwarded to the State, which was granted one month to submit any observations it deemed appropriate. 9. On September 21 the IACHR receives a communication of the State by means of which it shows his interest to initiate a process of friendly settlement. On September 22 the IACHR indicated to put itself at the disposal of the parts and to offer his good offices by virtue of the Article 48(1)(f) of the American Convention. On October 7 the IACHR receives a communication of the petitioner indicating not to be interested in entering a process of friendly settlement and requesting that the Commission continued with the case. The Commission gave transfer of the mentioned communication to the State on the same October 7, 2005. III. POSITIONS OF THE PARTIES ON ADMISSIBILITY A. Position of the Petitioner 10. The petitioner alleges that on July 22, 1980, at approximately 8:00 p.m., the brothers Renato Ticona Estrada (teacher and university student) and Hugo Ticona Estrada (university leader and former union leader) were detained by an Army patrol in the vicinity of the control gate of Cala-Cala (Oruro), as they were heading for the village of Sacaca (Potosí), Bolivia. 11. He states that on that occasion, soldiers checked a list for the names of the brothers, and on seeing that the name of Hugo Ticona Estrada appeared on the list, they arrested both brothers. He further states that they took the identification documents, personal belongings, and money of the Ticona brothers, and as Sergeant Willy Valdivia Gumucio, Lieutenant René Veizaga Vargas and other soldiers from the Topater Regiment beat them, they were forced to say which political party they belonged to, whether they were leaders, what posts they held, and where the alleged weapons of the university were hidden.1 He reports that the interrogation and beating lasted from about 8:30 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. of the next day (July 23). He further reports that the Ticona brothers were placed in front of the wall of the Cala Cala school, and that the soldiers fired at it repeatedly simulating the shooting of the brothers, in order to get them to talk. The petitioner points out that Renato Ticona was beaten repeatedly until he lost consciousness. He indicates that after the beating, the Ticona brothers were transferred by Colonel Melean in a military truck, first to the Vinto garrison/barracks, and then to the city of Oruro, where they were handed over to the Special Security Service (SES) in that city. The petitioner indicates that Renato Ticona had not recovered consciousness at the time of the transfer. He reports that Renato and Hugo Ticona were separated and transferred to the URME clinic2 in Oruro, and that Hugo Ticona was released on November 4 1980, while Renato Ticona Estrada has been considered as a disappeared person since that date.3 1 With regard to the arrest of the Ticona brothers, the petitioner indicates that in a voluntary statement deposed on April 12, 1984 in the city of Oruro, Erasmo Calvimontes Calvimontes, a military conscript serving in the Topater Regiment in Oruro in 1980 reported that on July 23, 1980, he was posted as a guard along with other soldiers at the Cala Cala gate under the orders of Melean, Veizaga, and Valdivia, when on instructions from superiors, they detained the brothers Hugo and Renato Ticona Estrada. The brothers were interrogated, while being beaten and kicked until they passed out, nearly dead. Moreover in his testimony on February 5, 1985 before the National Commission for Investigation of Disappeared Persons, citizen José Cadima Meza stated that “as Secretary General of the COMIBOL labor union, I was taken prisoner on July 21 1980 by military and civilian agents of the DIN and SES. […] During my detention, I found out that the brothers Hugo and Renato Ticona had been arrested, and I also learned that one of them was hospitalized at a clinic as a result of the torture he had been subjected to. I later learned that he had disappeared, and, according to what was said by other prisoners, that the other brother was being held. 2 The petitioner stated that at the time of the events, the URME clinic in Oruro was connected with the COSSMIL military hospitals. 3 The petitioner reports that various hypotheses were going around: “according to one story, his body was transferred back to the Vinto barracks and at dawn on July 24, it was buried by other officers in the vicinity of that military post. According to another version Renato died at the Oruro SES and was then taken to La Paz in a van belonging to the prefecture. A third account, reported to Renato’s mother, stated that he was taken in a state of paralysis to the Military Headquarters in La Paz, with the number 00358. That version was confirmed in a statement to the mother by a ministerial official with the last name of Rico Toro. Rico Toro promised to hand over Renato, but that never happened. A fourth version related that Renato was transferred to a safe house in the eastern part of the country. According to a fifth version, the former de facto president, Luis García Meza, reported that the Ticona Estrada brothers were detained and that Renato was buried. In any event, Renato Ticona Estrada was the victim of forced disappearance at dawn on July 23, 1980, after having been detained and tortured by State agents.” 2