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movements of the aforementioned defendants; b) To send letters reiterating the orders for the location and
capture of the absent defendants at the national and international level; c) To request the Peruvian Army to
submit updated information on the unit where the defendants Chipana Tarqui and Eusebio Huaytalla are serving,
informing them of their status as absent defendants in the present case. 138
128. Once the maximum pre-trial detention term of the defendant Oscar Alberto Carrera
González expired and once he had requested his “release due to excess prison time,” on June
15, 2010, the National Criminal Chamber changed the measure to appearance with restrictions,
effective as of June 29, 2010. In addition, an order was issued to prevent him from leaving the
country in order to guarantee his presence at trial. 139
129. In July 2010, the oral proceedings began against the defendant Oscar Alberto Carrera
Gonzáles, who was on conditional restricted release from prison to ensure his appearance at
trial, subject to compliance with rules of conduct. At that time, the other accused - Javier
Bendezú Vargas, Duilio Chipana Tarqui, Fidel Gino Eusebio Huaytalla and Dennis Wilfredo
Pacheco Zambrano - were classified as absentee defendants since they had not been
apprehended. 140 Between July 2010 and November 2011, statements were received from the
defendants, witnesses and experts, and documentary evidence was received and discussed at
the hearing. The following documents were also examined during the proceedings: a) the CVR��s
Final Report, attached to joined File No. 808-2002, on the Santa Bárbara Peasant Massacre; b)
the complaints filed by Santa Bárbara community members in July 1991, included in the main
case file; c) the testimonial statements included in the main file; d) records of the removal of
remains and objects from the “Vallarón” mine, on July 18, 1991, and record of the preliminary
anatomical-pathological identification of July 19, 1991; e) the Forensic Archaeology Expert
Report of November 16 and 18, 2009, an expert report of January 25, 2010, the record of the
recovery of human remains from March 1 to 8, 2010, and an expert report dated April 18 and
19, 2010; f) investigative and testimonial statements from the case file of the military
jurisdiction; g) record of findings and collection of explosives of July 4, 1991, military jurisdiction
file; h) outline of the Apolonia Plan, military jurisdiction file; i) the “Manual of Non-Conventional
War,” “Information Report sent to BSC Lircay, by Escorpio” and “Manual of Non-Conventional
Counter-Insurgency War”, and j) parts of the military file and judgments issued in the military
jurisdiction. 141
130. On January 28, 2011, the representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the
dismissal of the written accusation regarding the crime of genocide in order to establish a new
legal classification of the offense as a crime of aggravated homicide with the aggravating factors
of ferocity and great cruelty, in relation to the deaths of the fifteen villagers of Rodeo Pampa. 142
131. On February 9, 2012, the National Criminal Chamber of Lima’s Superior Court of Justice
classified the events of July 4, 1991 in the peasant community of Santa Barbara, as a crime
against humanity and, consequently, ruled that liability for these acts was not subject to any
statute of limitations. In that judgment, Oscar Alberto Carrera Gonzáles was convicted as a
secondary accomplice to the crime of aggravated homicide with ferocity and premeditation y and
sentenced to nine years imprisonment and the payment of 25,000 new soles as civil reparations
in favor of each of the legal heirs of the victims, jointly and severally with those responsible for
the criminal act. The Court also reserved judgment of the absent defendants Javier Bendezú
Vargas and Dennis Wilfredo Pacheco Zambrano and issued national and international warrants
for their immediate arrest, together with an impediment to leave the country, notifying the
Cf. Ruling of the National Criminal Chamber of November 9, 2009 (evidence file, folios 4252 to 4254).
Cf. Ruling of the National Criminal Chamber of February 9, 2012 (evidence file, folio 4376).
140
Cf. Official letter No. 042-06-SPN of August 23, 2010, National Criminal Chamber (evidence file, folio 186),
Report of the Recording Secretary to Coordinator of the National Criminal Chamber (evidence file, folio 202).
141
Cf. Court records, National Criminal Chamber (evidence file, folios 2874 to 3594), Judgment of the National
Criminal Chamber of February 9, 2012 (evidence file, folios 4380 to 4452).
142
Cf. Judgment of the National Criminal Chamber of February 9, 2012 (evidence file, folio 4377).
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