38 “Four days after his arrival [at the military barracks of Atoyac de Álvarez], Mr. Rosendo Radilla-Pacheco was taken away […] one of the detainees said: ‘that man composed a corrido on the massacre of May 18th’, which caught their attention and they separated him from the rest of the group. […]” “They separated him once again from the group and when they brought him back he had his hands tied and his eyes were covered with his handkerchief, a red paliacate. [T]hey tried to put cotton that had been wet with an unknown substance in his eyes, under the bandage; he was telling them not to put anything in his eyes; that his crime did not call for that, reason for which he resisted. For the time being they resisted. When they took someone out they told us that the heavy players were going to enjoy a banquet.” “Two days later they took him away […], in a red pick-up truck [sic], saying that in a little while they would come back for those of us left there, once ‘they were finished with these bodies’. From that point on 100 [he] did not see [him] again.” 129. In that same sense, in a statement offered before the Special Prosecutors’ Office, Mr. Nava Martínez indicated that: “[…] on August 25, 1974, he heard a male singing a corrido, he was singing loudly with a guitar […], it was the first time he had heard the corrido he was singing […] singing [at the military barracks of Atoyac de Álvarez] against the government[;] the person was at a distance of about ten meters [...] he remembers him and saw him because they would act as if they got tired and they would put their hands on the blindfolds and however they could they would remove the blindfolds from their eyes and he could observe it was a male, with a mustache who was singing and was not wearing the blindfold on his eyes and who was singing and playing the guitar […] once outside the barracks [… some people] came to comment on who the person who had been singing the corrido was, saying among them that it was Mr. Rosendo Radilla-Pacheco, who lived in San 101 Vicente de Benítez with his wife[,] but he never saw him again […].” 130. Likewise, the case file includes the statement of Mr. Enrique Hernández Girón, who expressed he was detained on August 25, 1974 along with Mr. Radilla-Pacheco at the Barracks of Atoyac de Álvarez, Guerrero. Specifically, he stated that “[h]e was put in a long room in which […] he could see […] there were more people […] of the male sex […], but they were all blindfolded[,] there were so many they did not fit inside [… there], through the blindfold he was able to see [that] Mr. Rosendo Radilla-Pacheco, who he had met a long time ago since he was from [Atoyac,] was next to [him], that he even talked to [him …], that he was also blindfolded, […] that after talking on that first night they took him outside and beat him, and that they took all of them outside in that same way to beat them at night, [Mr. Hernández Girón] was there for approximately one month and five days[,] but that when he left [Rosendo Radilla-Pacheco] remain[ed] there[,] he saw him all those days in the inside of the room 102 […] and that up to this date he is still missing […].” 131. Upon knowing of his arrest, the next of kin of Mr. Rosendo Radilla-Pacheco took a series of steps in order to determine his whereabouts, especially through contact with relatives or friends that worked for the State. However, the next of kin have adduced that, due to the conditions of repression that existed at that time, acknowledged by the State, they restrained from filing formal accusations regarding the facts (infra paras. 194 and 196). In this regard, Mrs. Tita Radilla, upon filing a complaint on May 14, 1999 (infra para. 183), indicated that “[t]he person who came forward to demand news regarding any 100 Cf. Hand-written statement signed by Maximiliano Nava Martínez on September 30, 1982 (dossier of appendixes to the brief of pleadings and motions, appendix D(22), folios 1914 and 1915). 101 Cf. Statement of Mr. Maximiliano Nava Martínez offered before the Special Prosecutors’ Office on September 26, 2003 (dossier of appendixes to the brief of pleadings and motions, appendix D(25), folios 1925 and 1926). 102 Cf. Statement of Mr. Enrique Hernández Girón offered before the Special Prosecutors’ Office on December 10, 2003 (dossier of appendixes to the brief of pleadings and motions, appendix D(29), folios 1947 through 1948).