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79.
The other children, including José Adrián Rochac Hernández, were being kept in the
house under the threat that they shouldn’t go out because they would kill them. At that moment, three
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shots were heard. According to the narration by María Juliana Rochac Hernández, at that moment she
sensed that they had killed her mother and she heard like it was her brother José Adrián saying “where
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can I hide, where can I hide.”
80.
Afterwards five soldiers returned to the house and told José Adrián Rochac Hernández
“let’s go little boy … let’s go little boy, we’re going to get on the horsey.” According to the statement by
María Juliana Rochac Hernández, one of the soldiers lived in the same canton and was known as “El
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Pacho.” The three sisters and the newborn baby stayed in the house when a neighbor by the name of
Tina Martínez arrived; she told her that her mother and brother had been assassinated and that “they
should go and place a blanket over the bodies.” María Juliana Rochac Hernández said that she did not do
so because wasn’t so bold and that her sister María del Tránsito Rochac Hernández, 9 years old, went to
cover the bodies and told her that her mother had a gunshot wound to the jaw and that her brother had
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one in his forehead.
81.
After these events, the family fled to the town of San Bartolomé Perulapía, to the home of
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the children’s paternal grandmother.
82.
On the fate of José Adrián Rochac Hernández, his sister María Juliana said that “later
she had some information on her brother, that her grandmother told her that several persons told her that
the soldiers took away a small boy with a light complexion, and that they recognized him as José
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Adrián.”
83.
A neighbor, Ms. Dolores López Beltrán, observed while José Adrián Rochac Hernández
was take by soldiers of the Salvadoran Air Force and taken to the outskirts of the canton San José
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Segundo. The child was taken to a truck of the Armed Forces and was later seen in Perulapía, to the
north, by several inhabitants who recognized him as a child who lived in the canton San José Segundo.
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After this they are said to have taken him to Air Force facilities.
84.
Another witness, Mr. José Román Quijano, indicated that one day after an operation in
December 1980, he began to see soldiers who were returning from San José. According to his testimony:
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Annex xx. Testimony of Juliana Rochac Hernández. Notarized Public Document before Notary Paul Fino Solórzano,
January 11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 7; and Annex xx. Testimony of Dolores López Beltrán. Notarized Public Document before
Notary Paul Fino Solórzano, January 11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 9.
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Annex xx. Testimony of Juliana Rochac Hernández. Notarized Public Document before Notary Paul Fino Solórzano,
January 11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 7.
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Annex xx. Testimony of Juliana Rochac Hernández. Notarized Public Document before Notary Paul Fino Solórzano,
January 11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 7.
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Annex xx. Testimony of Juliana Rochac Hernández. Notarized Public Document before Notary Paul Fino Solórzano,
January 11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 7; and Annex xx. Testimony of Dolores López Beltrán. Notarized Public Document before
Notary Paul Fino Solórzano, January 11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 9.
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Annex xx. Testimony of Juliana Rochac Hernández. Notarized Public Document before Notary Paul Fino Solórzano,
January 11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 7; and Annex xx. Testimony of Dolores López Beltrán. Notarized Public Document before
Notary Paul Fino Solórzano, January 11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 9.
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Annex xx. Testimony of Juliana Rochac Hernández. Notarized Public Document before Notary Paul Fino Solórzano,
January 11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 7.
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Annex xx. Testimony of Dolores López Beltrán. Notarized Public Document before Notary Paul Fino Solórzano, January
11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 9.
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Annex xx. Testimony of José Román Quijano. Notarized Public Document before Notary Paul Fino Solórzano, January
11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 8.
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Annex xx. Testimony of José Román Quijano. Notarized Public Document before Notary Paul Fino Solórzano, January
11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 8; and Annex xx. Testimony of Juliana Rochac Hernández. Notarized Public Document before Notary
Paul Fino Solórzano, January 11, 2007. Book XXIX, number 7.