26 reunion of María Maura Contreras, Fermín Recinos and Gregoria Herminia Contreras Recinos.78 69. During this reunion, they were able to determine what had happened to Gregoria Herminia after August 25, 1982. In her words, “they captured us and told me to look after my little sister, and they asked me: What about your parents? And I told them that they were there, and then they followed them and told me that they had killed them; that was really hard because it was something that I didn’t want to hear, because I loved my parents […]; that day we camped there all day, and the following day they took me to an unfamiliar place where I didn’t know anyone and they told me that he was going to be my father, the person who was taking me, the soldier and the woman, his mother, was going to be my mother.”79 She also stated that, “the day that we camped was the last time [that I saw my siblings] because the next day a helicopter came; they took us in trucks, but we weren’t alone, there were a lot of other children; and my little brother, they took him to the barracks […], and my other little sister supposedly to Armenia, another place, and that was the last time I saw them; I told them not to separate us, but they didn’t want to leave them with me; they didn’t want us to be together.”80 70. According to the records, Gregoria Herminia Contreras was registered as Gregoria de Jesús Molina in the Santa Ana Mayor’s Office on May 16, 1988, with a date of birth of December 3, 1979, in the canton of Ochupse Arriba and as the daughter of María Julia Molina, who stated that she was the mother.81 To this day, she is registered under that name and with the other false personal data. C. Facts related to the forced disappearance of José Rubén Rivera Rivera 71. José Rubén Rivera Rivera was born on October 15, 1978 in the canton of San Andrés Los Achotes, in San Vicente Department and he is the son of Agustín Antonio Rivera Gálvez and Margarita de Dolores Rivera de Rivera.82 According to several statements by his mother83 and a decision of the Ombudsman’s Office of March 30, 1998,84 José Rubén was 78 Cf. Press communiqué of the Asociación Pro-Búsqueda of December 12, 2006, entitled “Asociación ProBúsqueda encuentra a una de los tres hermanos Contreras. Caso por el que El Salvador ha sido demandado ante la Comsión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos” [Search Association finds one of the three Contreras sister. Case for which El Salvador has been sued before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights] (evidence file, volume III, attachment 17 to the application, folio 2236), and Newspaper article in El Diario de Hoy on December 13, 2006, entitled “Familia se reúne 24 años después de ser separada” [Family reunited 24 years after being separated] (evidence file, volume VII, attachment 40 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 4556). See also, Statement made by María Maura Contreras, supra note 68 (evidence file, volume XI, affidavits, folio 7513); Statement made by Fermín Recinos, supra note 68 (evidence file, volume XI, affidavits, folio 7523), and Testimony given by Gregoria Herminia Contreras before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on May 17, 2011. 79 Testimony given by Gregoria Herminia Contreras before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on May 17, 2011. 80 Testimony given by Gregoria Herminia Contreras before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on May 17, 2011. 81 Cf. Birth certificate in which Gregoria Herminia Contreras appears registered as Gregoria de Jesús Molina issued by the Civil Registry Office of the Mayor’s Office of Santa Ana (evidence file, volume VII, attachment 41 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 4558). 82 Cf. Birth certificate of José Rubén Rivera Rivera issued by the Civil Registry Office of the Mayor’s Office of Tecoluca (evidence file, volume X, attachment 5 to the brief answering the application, folio 7431), and Baptismal certificate of José Rubén Rivera Rivera issued by the Diocese of San Vicente (evidence file, volume VI, attachment 25 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3899). 83 Cf. Statement made by Margarita de Dolores Rivera de Rivera before notary public (affidavit) on April 30, 2011 (evidence file, volume XI, affidavits, folio 7465); Statement made by Margarita de Dolores Rivera de Rivera