99.
In addition, in November 1984, the case was submitted to the then Head of State
and the Tripartite Commission, consisting of the Public Prosecution Service, the Ministry of
the Interior and the Ministry of Defense. The disappearance was also communicated to the
Inter-American Commission, which, in turn, referred it to the State without obtaining a
response. Meanwhile, the family reported the incident to the media and searched for Manuel
Ismael in detention centers and hospitals. His father continued denouncing the incident
through the GAM and the Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos Desparecidos de Guatemala
(hereinafter “FAMDEGUA”).
100. In 1988, the incident was reported to the PDH, which requested information from,
among others, the National Police, the Commander of the No. 1 Military Zone and the court
where the application for habeas corpus had been filed. The latter responded indicating the
measures it had taken, including summoning Manuel Ismael's father, who, according to the
court, had not appeared. The court also indicated that the application had been declared
inadmissible because it had been established that Manuel Ismael Chiguil Salanic had
appeared that same day and that there had been an error in the complaint because the
name “of the person who had appeared [was] Manuel Ismael Salamic Tuc.” The PDH was
also able to obtain information about the owner of the vehicle which, according to the next
of kin, the armed men used at the time of capture. The PDH concluded that “the authorities
were refusing to provide information on or explain the whereabouts of [Manuel Ismael
Salamic Chiguil” and that the disappearance “could only have taken place with the
intervention of the authorities or paramilitary groups.” The PDH reactivated the
investigation in 1992 when it made further requests for information from State agencies and
institutions, based on which it determined that Manuel Ismael had no criminal record. In
1999, with the appearance of the Diario Militar, the Public Prosecution Service offered to
assist the family and to meet their health care needs with a public institution.
10. Carlos Guillermo Ramírez Gálvez86
101. Carlos Guillermo Ramírez Gálvez was 19 years of age; he was a student at the
Technical Training Institute and undergoing an internship at the Roosevelt Hospital because
86
The evidence regarding this victim is found in: Diario Militar (file of annexes to the merits report, tome I,
annex 11, folios 339 and 374); Affidavit made by Natalia Gálvez Soberanis on April 18, 2012 (file of documents
received during the public hearing, folios 13061, 13062, 13064 and 13067); Letter from Carlos Alberto Ramírez
Pereira to the Head of State, Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, of February 15, 1984 (file of annexes to the merits
report, tome II, annex 63, folio 779); affidavit made by Jorge Alberto Ramírez Gálvez on February 4, 2005 (file of
annexes to the merits report, tome II, annex 64, folios 782 and 783); affidavit made by Hugo Leonel Ramírez
Gálvez on January 28, 2005 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome II, annex 66, folios 785 and 786);
complaint filed by Natalia Gálvez Soberanis and Hugo Leonel Ramírez Gálvez before the Public Prosecution Service
on August 22, 2008 (file of annexes presented by the State on October 17, 2008, tome III, folios 7178 to 7180);
Decision No. 01534 of the General Secretariat of the Head of State of February 17, 1984 (file of annexes presented
by the State on October 17, 2008, tome III, folio 7106); testimony of Natalia Gálvez Soberanis filmed and
authenticated on March 29, 2008, (file of annexes submitted to the Commission by the petitioners, folio 5084);
AHPN, Note No. 03454 of February 16, 1984, GT PN 50 S010, No. 14832 (file of annexes to the pleadings and
motions brief, tome VI, annex D66, folio 12089); Habeas corpus application of April 18, 1984 (file of annexes to
the merits report, tome II, annex 67, folios 793 and 794); AHPN, Log for July 16, 1984, GT PN 51-01 S004, No.
4231 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome VI, annex D8, folio 11478); AHPN, Ruling of the
Supreme Court of Justice of August 9, 1985 and Note No. 19795 of the DIT to the Supreme Court of Justice of
August 11, 1985, GT PN 50 S005, Nos. 13401 and 13402 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief,
tome VI, annex D26, folios 11749, 11751, 11764 and 11765); AHPN, Note to the Sixth First Instance Criminal
Judge of December 7, 1985, GT PN 50 S005, No. 13683 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome
VI, annex D25, folio 11731); AHPN, Decision No. 0069-SISI-84/o1n of August 13, 1984, GT PN 50 S004, No.
12052 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome VI, annex D34, folios 11875 and 11876); Habeas
corpus application of June 4, 1986 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome II, annex 77, folio 824), and Letter
from Carlos Alberto Ramírez Pereira to the Peace Commission of April 11, 1984 (file of annexes to the merits
report, tome II, annex 78, folios 826 and 827).
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