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Although the State has acknowledged its responsibility in the instant case, before the InterAmerican Commission, the next of kin decided to waive the amicable solution proceeding
since the State was not willing to comply with its commitment.
She has received no compensation, reparation or apology from the State. However, her
parents, legal heirs of her brother, received compensation from the State, in compliance
with the judgment pronounced by the CSJM (Supreme Council of Military Justice).
Integral reparation must be rooted in the public acknowledgement and apology from the
State. Furthermore, the State must see for the mental and physical health of the victims,
award education grants and create memory spaces, since “each one of the victims in [Perú
has] the right to public acknowledgement […].” The civil community encouraged the
construction of the “Ojo que llora” (“the Crying Eye”) in a place donated by the Jesús María
Municipality, in Lima. However, the State “cannot be small-minded and believe that said
memorial […] is everything the victims deserve.” Moreover, the State must admit that the
event involving the ten alleged victims is the official story and it must stop saying that they
were subversives or terrorists. Contrariwise, the State "used terrorist methods and ways to
kill university students.”
The witness does not agree with the analysis made by the Comisión de la Verdad y
Reconciliación (CVR) (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) in the case of La Cantuta
regarding the “general context on how was life at the University […], the particular
coexistence conditions of students” as “it does not reflect […] reality.” Besides, since year
2003, when the CVR submitted its report, and up to the present time, its “recommendations
have neither been implemented nor taken into account by the State.” The witness requested
that the State publicly acknowledges that it has violated the rights of the alleged victims
and their next of kin.
Her brother “is murdered from behind each day impunity continues and each day [t]he
murderers […] are allowed to go on unpunished.” The next of kin are treated “as secondclass citizens” with no rights and they are tired and scared since they do not know how
more time they will have to "pledge [their] life to this fight, which should be the fight of the
Peruvian State and not only [theirs.]”
Finally, she requested the Court that “each one of the persons liable for the violations of
human rights [be] punished;” that the official story of the case of La Cantuta be written;
that the victims be awarded an integral reparation; and that the next of kin be dignified as
victims of the State.
b)
Raida Cóndor-Sáez, mother of Richard Armando Amaro-Cóndor
A friend of her son Armando told her that he had been arrested. She looked for him in the
DINCOTE, the Police Station and hospitals, but did not find him. Then, she went to the
University where she learnt what had really happened.
She submitted the corresponding complaints together with other next of kin. Only APRODEH
“gave them a hand," since everybody thought their sons were terrorists, and consequently
they were marginalized, could not find a job and people considered them “bad."
The only thing belonging to her son that she found in the mass graves were his keys. “At
that moment, [she] felt completely discouraged, she want[ed] to die too; but then she
thought: ‘I cannot die; if I die, who will speak for him, who shall claim justice for my son?"
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