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He had been making his best efforts to find his brother since the very moment of his
abduction until the discovery of the graves. The authorities denied any operation at La
Cantuta or answered they did not to know anything about it. Then, it was rumoured that he
was detained in Puno or elsewhere. After that, Henry Pease, a Congressman, denounced the
existence of clandestine graves. “At that moment he felt great longing as he had the hope
of finding him alive.”
Upon his brother´s abduction, he and his family felt helpless and indignant; he feels his
“soul wounded.”. His sister-in-law hid the truth from his nephews. When a law was passed
ordering the members of the “Grupo Colina” (Colina Group) to be judged by a military court,
he felt indignation and impotence, as within the following 72 hours the military court had
determined that the group acted on their own account that and the State bore no
responsibility for the events. He felt the same rage and indignation when the amnesty law
was passed.
Alberto Fujimori did all he could for those held intellectually responsible to remain unknown.
Since the change in the government, the “members of the Colina Group and Montesinos are
being held on trial at the Military Base.” Nevertheless, fourteen years after the events took
place, full justice has not yet been done, as this will be possible only when perpetrators and
masterminds be “judged and convicted for the crimes against humanity they committed.”
He wants to know where the remains of his brother are lying, and he expects the
masterminds to be investigated, as “the remains of [his] brother have not been found yet,
with the exception of a part of his humerus bone, which was sent to London for DNA testing,
and neither the bone nor the results of the study have ever returned. He has not been
identified[. ]His brother’s tombstone bears his name and an epitaph in his memory, but his
remains are not there.”
Furthermore, he expects that the apologies for the killing be given by the Office of the
Ombudsman and that an obelisk to be erected in memory of his brother and the students,
as La Cantuta is considered an emblematic case.
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Victor Cubas-Villanueva, incumbent of the 18th Provincial Public Prosecutor’s
Office at the time of the events
He was the prosecutor who learnt about the investigation on the clandestine graves on July
8, 1993. He went to the site of the graves with forensic experts. He carried out the
proceeding in public. One of the graves of the first burial, which was a secondary
inhumation of someone found in Cieneguillas, had already been opened and on removing
some earth, pieces of cardboard, with fragments of burned bones were found. Apart from
the bones, hair, small fragments of burned bones, pieces of fabric, earth, cinder, a compact
shapeless mass and some keys. The fragments of bones and other objects produced a
strong smell because, according to the experts´statements, they had been burned when
they were already decayed. There were small objects in the second grave. In the burial of
Huachipa, which proved to be the first inhumation, and presumably, the place where the
victims had been executed, remains of unburned bones and other objects were found.
The experts were able to reconstruct a complete bone and concluded that the physical
characteristics of the victim corresponded with those of the students of La Cantuta. From
bones and material found in the graves of Cieneguilla it is possible to conclude that the
remains found belonged to the students Bertila Lozano-Torres, Juan Gabriel MariñosFigueroa and Armando Richard Amaro-Condor; “remains of objects belonging to Robert
Teodoro-Espinoza and Heráclides Pablo-Meza were also found.” Some human remains that
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