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4.
Lastenia Eugenia Caballero Mejía, wife of the alleged victim Mario
Aguilar Vega and mother of the alleged victims Ruth and Orlando
Aguilar Caballero
Her husband and son were imprisoned in pavilion 4B of the Criminal Center Castro
Castro and her daughter was held in pavilion 1A of said criminal center. She found
out through the news of what was happening in the prison and she went to it with
her granddaughter. When she arrived she saw many soldiers and police officers
surrounding the penitentiary center. She heard gunshots and explosions and nobody
gave her information on the inmates. On the third day the situation became more
serious, the number of soldiers increased and the explosions and gunshots
continued. The soldiers mistreated the next of kin, they told them to leave, and they
shot and threw tear gas and water at them. Additionally, people dressed as civilians
fired weapons at them.
On the third day of the events, when she still did not know what could have
happened to her next of kin, she went to the morgue to look for information. The
morgue “was a complete meat shop”. To identify her next of kin she was shown
pictures of people that were “destroyed”. There were worms on the floor and a
hideous smell, there were people “thrown on the floor as if they were animals.”
Additionally, the personnel of the morgue was performing the autopsies in front of
the relatives, as if they did not care that they were watching. It was “an immense
pain” for the witness that “left her marked as with a very large footprint.” Her
children and husband were not in the morgue, and thus she returned to the criminal
center.
When she was outside the criminal center on the fourth day of the events smoke was
coming out, “very loud sounds” were heard, and machine guns could also be heard
“as if it were a war.” She imagined that her children and husband would be dead.
She returned to the morgue and did not find them.
The State did not provide an official list with the names of the people that died or of
the survivors and their condition.
Her children survived the event and were transferred to the prisons of Ica and Puno.
After 12 years of asking different people about what happened, she found out that
her husband died as the result of the explosion of a firebomb and he was carbonized.
She suffers from psychological and nervous disorders as well as of other illnesses of
the urinary system. She requested that those responsible be punished and that her
husband’s body be handed over to her so that she may bury him.
c)
Proposed by the State:
5.
Omar Antonio Pimentel Calle, Judge of the Second Supraprovincial
Criminal Court
He works as a Supraprovincial Judge, in charge of hearing cases of terrorism and
breach of human rights. As of July 2005 he has been hearing the case for the events
occurred in the Criminal Center Castro Castro between May 6 and 9, 1992, in its
preliminary stages. After evaluating the accusation presented by the Fifth
Supraprovincial Public Prosecutor, the witness proceeded to ordering the start of the