16 60(19) On December 15, 1992, a manifestation called the “Marcha Unitaria” [United Protest March] was held, with the presence of Pedro Huilca Tecse and the participation of workers, grass-roots organizations, the unemployed, street salesmen, merchants, workers who had been made redundant, and retirees. 60(20) The same day, Pedro Huilca Tecse wrote an article entitled “Luchamos por una causa superior a nuestras vidas” [We are fighting for a cause that is more important than our lives], in which he referred to the speech made by the former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, during the CADE, and criticized his Government. 60(21) On December 17, 1992, the day before his murder, Pedro Huilca Tecse addressed a manifestation in the central streets of Lima. The attack on Pedro Huilca Tecse 60(22) On December 18, 1992, Pedro Huilca Tecse was leaving his home in Lima on his way to work, together with his daughter, Flor de María Huilca Gutiérrez, and his stepson, Julio César Escobar Flores, when a group of eight to ten armed individuals approached them and, unexpectedly, one of them shot Pedro Huilca Tecse several times, killing him. 60(23) Julio César Escobar Flores, son of Martha Flores Gutiérrez and stepson of the alleged victim, who was in the back seat of the car was injured. Pedro Huilca Tecse’s daughter, Flor de María, who was unharmed, got out of the car to ask for help. When she tried to go back into her house, she came face to face with a woman with a handgun. Martha Flores Gutiérrez, the alleged victim’s companion, observed the incident from the door of the house. 60(24) As the armed group fled, they fired shots at the door of the Huilca Tecse family’s house. Regarding the domestic investigations into the facts a. Investigations against alleged members of Sendero Luminoso 60(25) After the murder of Pedro Huilca Tecse, his next of kin were not called to make a statement by the Peruvian authorities responsible for the investigation. Later, the National Counter-terrorism Directorate (hereinafter “DINCOTE”) of the Peruvian National Police (hereinafter “PNP”) told them that the authors of the crime had already been captured and were members of Sendero Luminoso. 60(26) On January 13, 1993, DINCOTE prepared police attestation No. 008-D1 DINCOTE, in which it accused several people of the crime of treason, in the form of selective elimination, guerrilla warfare, sabotage, agitation and armed propaganda, for different acts that had taken place in Lima’s Cono Norte sector. The alleged planning of the murder of Pedro Huilca Tecse was underscored among these acts, even though Flor de María Huilca Gutiérrez and Martha Flores Gutiérrez, who were eyewitnesses to the event, went to the Police to make a voluntary statement and declared that the individuals presented by the Police as the alleged murderers of the victim, were not those who had attacked him. 60(27) On January 20, 1993, based on the above-mentioned police attestation made by DINCOTE, the Navy’s Special Provincial Prosecutor filed a formal complaint