24 While participating in the several actions aimed at searching missing relatives, she went to the mass graves and once there she reminded that “[they], with [their] hands, disinter[red] the remains those criminals had left. [They] wer[e] in those mass graves of Cieneguilla, disinterring the burnt remains of [their] next of kin […], in year 1993 […] They scratch[ed] the ground trying to uncover the truth hidden there.” She stated that “the body of [her] brother appeared there; and that was the only corpse the criminals left, a corpse dried by the lime that had covered it [. I]n [her]opinion, the most painful thing [she] had to endure up to now was to discover –a year and a half later- that [her] brother had been thrown into that mass grave.” Her brother’s body was the only one found there. It had five shots on the head. The next of kin “did not know that those criminals were so cruel to hide the body, to deny [them] the right to bury the corpse.” She is grateful “to life and […] God [for] finding [her] brother,” since in Perú “thousands of victims” have not such opportunity. The damage was caused not only by the disappearance and death of her brother, but also by all the after-effects caused to her family and her personal life. “She [had] to abandon [her] studies at the university. Really […] it was very hard to go to the university without feeling emotionally bad because [her] brother was not there, [his] university mates were not there either. It took [h]er over ten years to make up her mind to resume her studies. [S]he felt that […] any personal progress entailed a betrayal of [her] brother, since he was not there any more and he could not finished any of the things he had been in search of." Besides, “[her] younger sisters […] are still suffering from the same after-effects [than her]: anxiety, depression, the same emotional instability, they are distrustful persons[. She] pity [her] parents, who are so sad for her brother’s death […] they [will] always talk about a time before and after said death. Then, […][they] clearly recognize how [their] life was before July 18, 1992 and what it has become […] after such event […].” She had to abandon her studies at the University as she devoted herself to seek justice. It is hard for her to continue with an ordinary life and has no personal project; she cannot take the risk of having a child under the present circumstances. As regards the legal proceedings, no judgment has been rendered against the persons liable for her brother´s death. Contrariwise, the masterminds behind the crimes “were successful in obtaining a tailor-made judgment issued by the military courts, whereby their complaint was annulled and dismissed for lack of sufficient evidence." Afterwards, in 2001, the prosecutor resumed an investigation that lasted until year 2005. As from that time, the proceedings are at the stage of the oral trial. The next of kin participate in such proceeding. Several of the accused persons have been released upon expiration of the legal term within which the judgment should have been rendered. Besides, the masterminds have not been tried. Moreover, the next of kin are civil complainants in the proceedings against Alberto Fujimori pending before the Supreme Court of Justice. “The State does not understand that for [the next of kin] justice is as necessary as to eat, sleep or survive, because […] since the death of [their] beloved ones, [they] cannot say they are alive; [they survive] when they wake up each morning and do not know what will happen […] Actually, for [them] amnesty is a permanent threat, because it entails a State indifferent to the victims´claims. […] The State has not taken enough measures, it has done nothing to punish those liable in the case of Cantuta.”