63 excluded from the legal and institutional system of the Peruvian State. In this sense, the forced disappearance of persons implies denying the existence of a human being with juridical personality; c) the connection between the forced disappearance and the violation of this right "lies in the fact that the precise aim of this pernicious practice is to deprive the individual of the protection to which he is entitled; the aim of those who follow said practice is to act outside the rule of law, hiding all evidence of the crime and attempting to escape punishment, besides the obvious intent to remove the possibility of this person's filing a legal action concerning the exercise of his rights.” The Commission quotes the UN International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances, the Inter-American Convention on the subject, case law of the Colombian Constitutional Court, a Declaration of the UN General Assembly, and d) it understands that "during the time of their disappearance, the perpetrators attempted to create a 'legal limbo' through the state's failure to admit that they were being held in its custody, the fact that victims were unable to exercise their rights and their next of kin's lack of knowledge of their situation or whereabouts. [...] To the [alleged] victims of the instant case, the consequence of the disappearance was the denial of all rights inherent to a human being.” Arguments of the representatives 103. Besides agreeing with the arguments of the Commission concerning the alleged violation of Articles 3, 4, 5 and 7 of the Convention, the representatives added that: a) the forced disappearances and executions of the alleged victims of the instant case are to be framed within the series of mechanisms aimed at identifying, persecuting and eliminating people who were allegedly linked to Sendero Luminoso or the Revolutionary Movement Tupac Amaru; b) the State violated not only subparagraphs 2 to 6 of Article 7 of the Convention, but also subparagraph 1 thereof, to the detriment of the alleged victims and their next of kin; c) it can be inferred that the three allegedly disappeared victims were executed, just as the other alleged victims; d) the State violated Articles 5(1) and 5(2) of the Convention by submitting the alleged victims to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment during and after their detention. Furthermore, considering the circumstances in which the detentions took place, it is reasonable to infer that the alleged victims experienced deep feelings of anxiety, tension, fear and uncertainty and found themselves in a situation of extreme vulnerability before numerous anonymous persons who were armed and fully supported by the members of the military on duty at La Cantuta University. Likewise, it can be deduced that the treatment they received after they were deprived of their freedom was similar to that of the detention, and