9 observes that, although the Commission did not include them in the list of next of kin presented in the application, it did include with the attachments to the application identity cards, birth certificates and/or powers of attorney of some of these persons, namely: Mario Mancuello, Hugo Alberto Mancuello Bareiro, Ana Elizabeth Mancuello Bareiro, Mario Andrés Mancuello Bareiro, Emilio Raúl Mancuello Bareiro and Fabriciana Villalba de Ramírez. As indicated (supra para. 29), it corresponds to the Commission and not the Court to identify precisely the alleged victims in a case before the Court. Nevertheless, regarding these persons, the Court will consider them alleged victims because the Court was informed of their existence, at least indirectly, in the attachments to the application. 34. On the other hand, from the statements made before public notary by the next of kin of the alleged victims (infra para. 56), and also from the helpful evidence requested (supra para. 23(b)), the existence of other next of kin of the alleged victims emerges and the possibility that they were affected by the facts of this case; namely: María Magdalena Galeano Rotela, Rosa Mujica Giménez, Lucrecia Ramírez de Borba, Mario Artemio Ramírez Villalba and Eugenia Adolfina Ramírez de Espinoza. In this regard, it is pertinent to assess the terms of the State’s acknowledgement of international responsibility (infra para. 141), as well as its assertion when acknowledging the facts relating to the merits of the case, to the effect that “under no circumstances will it contest the statements of the petitioners concerning the cases that are the subject of this submission, which are based on the testimony of the victims or, if applicable, of the next of kin of the disappeared, which merit full credibility.” 35. Also, with regard to María Magdalena Galeano Rotela, according to the statement of Julio Darío Ramírez Villalba, his brother Benjamín had a companion of this name, who was detained with him. According to information provided by the Commission, in response to the request for helpful evidence, this persons is included in the Inter-American Commission’s 1977 Report on the situation of human rights in Paraguay, which contains a list of detained persons prepared from sources within the Paraguayan Ministry of the Interior, as well as from a list of “political detainees kept under Article 79 of the Constitution,” communicated to the Commission by the State in a brief of August 9, 1977. In addition, according to the book Testimonio contra el Olvido, publication of which was authorized by the Paraguayan Supreme Court of Justice and which the Commission provided as evidence at the Court’s request, Mrs. Galeano was detained from November 25, 1974 – the same day as Benjamín Ramírez Villalba was detained (infra para. 61(44) and 61(46)) – until March 2, 1978. Lastly, the Commission provided, although after the procedural opportunity had passed, a sworn statement she had made describing her relationship with this alleged victim and the detention conditions to which she was subjected together with him. 36. Regarding Rosa Mujica Giménez, it emerges from the testimony of Elva Elisa de Goiburú and from a birth certificate provided by the Commission as helpful evidence, that she is a sister of Dr. Agustín Goiburú Giménez. The Commission also provided, although after the procedural opportunity had passed, a sworn statement she had made declaring that she had been detained because she was Dr. Goiburú’s sister. 37. In addition, it emerges from the statement of Julio Darío Ramírez Villalba and from death certificates provided as helpful evidence, that Lucrecia Ramírez de Borba,

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