64 Development of “Operative Transfer 1”: facts occurred between May 6 and 9, 1992 in the Miguel Castro Castro Prison 197(18) The “operative” started on Wednesday May 6, 1992, female visiting day in the criminal center, reason for which outside the center there was a great number of relatives, mothers, sisters, wives, and children, who became aware, from the location, of what happened. Besides, on Sunday May 10, 1992 Mother’s Day was celebrated in Peru.47 197(19) The next of kin that were outside the criminal center tried to receive information about what was happening inside and the state of health of their next of kin. However, they did not obtain a response. Some of them were insulted and beaten, water and tear gas bombs were thrown at them to force them to move away from the criminal center; and if they tried to climb a hill, to get a better look at what was happening inside the prison, they were scared away with gunshots.48 197(20) At approximately 4:00 hours of Wednesday May 6, 1992, officers of the security forces of Peru started the “operative”. To this effect, the National Police knocked down part of the external wall of the yard of pavilion 1A using explosives. Three successive detonations were produced. Simultaneously, the police officers took control of the rooftops of the criminal center making holes in the same, through which they fired their weapons.49 47 Cfr. Written testimonial statements of Nila Cipriano Pacheco Neira, Lourdes Heredia Pacheco, Ana Barreda Crushing, and Norma Dávalos Díaz (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendixes 243 and 245, folios 2665, 2698, 2702, and 2707). 48 Cfr. Written testimonial statements of Priscila Rodríguez Osorio, Nila Cipriano Pacheco Neira, Vilma Company Rodríguez de Aranda, Avelina García Calderón, Lourdes Heredia Pacheco, Norma Dávalos Díaz, and Ana Barredo Crushing (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendixes 242, 243, 244, and 245, folios 2655, 2664, 2681, 2692, 2698, 2707, and 2702); testimonial statements offered by Julia Peña Castillo and Lastenia Eugenia Caballero Mejía in the public hearing before the Inter-American Court held on the 26th and 27th days of June 2006; written testimonial statements of Edith Tinta, Rubeth Feria Tinta, and Liliana Peralta Saldarriaga (dossier on merits and possible reparations and costs, volume VII, folios 2090, 2095, 2096, 2097, and 1996); forms of testmonial statements offered by Guillerma Mendieta Galindo, Paulina Mitma Sulca, and Rosa María León Torres (dossier of appendixes to the brief of pleadings and motions, volume I, folios 3722, 3792, and 3890); forms of testimonial statements offered by Silvia Matto Primo de Aguirre, Julia Nereida Armas Vereau de Sedelmayer, Genoveva Torres Bonifacio, Norma Gloria Dávalos Díaz de Silva, Brígida Flores de Flores, Gloria Rosario Flores Flores, Oscar Flores Flores, Simón Flores Flores, Régulo Flores Flores, Rosa mercedes Flores Flores, Claudio J. Flores Flores, María Jesús Yepes Cebrian, and Aurora Zoila Villanueva de Castillo (evidence presented by the other group of representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin); newspaper article titled “Familiares de presas lloraban y cantaban himnos senderistas” published in the newspaper “Expreso” on May 7, 1992 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 48, folio 1053). 49 Cfr. Different statements of surviving inmates and the next of kin of surviving and dad inmates (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendixes between 82 and 246, folios between 1226 and 1733); Final Report of the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, CVR, issued on August 27, 2003, in the city of Lima, Peru, Volume VII, section 2(68), Extrajudicial killings in the criminal center Canto Grande, pages 771 and 772 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 6, corresponding to a compact disc); judgment issued by the National Terrorism Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru on February 3, 2004 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 274, folio 3227); newspaper article titled “Terroristas se atrincheran en pabellón y atacan con balas, dinamitazos y ácido” published in the newspaper “La República” on May 7, 1992, newspaper article titled “Ministro comprobó estado de rebeldía en el penal” published in the newspaper “El Comercio” on May 7, 1992, newspaper article titled “Reclusos por terrorismo son trasladados definitivamente” published in the newspaper “El Peruano” on May 7, 1992, newspaper article titled “Los policías entraron desarmados y fueron emboscados dentro del penal” published in the newspaper “Expreso” on May 7, 1992, newspaper article titled “Durante dieciséis horas saldo de enfrentamiento entre terroristas en Canto Grande” published in the newspaper “Expreso” on May