the case of Lilian Teresa Flores Bedregal, in the loss of the "guardian and life guide." In the case of Olga Flores Bedregal, the "loss of her ideological companion," of the "guiding comrade." That is to say, they lost both their sibling and a person with an additional role and/or bond which they came to have with him during their youth and adult years. The expert also noted "the presence of high chronic collective psychological damage, manifested in the Flores Bedregal sisters." It concludes that in all of them, but to a lesser extent, in Olga Flores Bedregal, there is a Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (PCBD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD), (the latter present only in sisters Verónica and Lilian Teresa Flores Bedregal) 209 this situation was expressed by the sisters Veronica, Lilian Teresa, and Olga Flores Bedregal. In addition, the representatives argued that the damage was transgenerational. 163. Verónica Flores Bedregal stated in her affidavit that, although she was living in Belgrade at the time of the events, she took several steps with representatives of the Red Cross in Belgrade that were referred to Bolivia through the Red Cross in Switzerland. In addition, she expressed that, during the years that elapsed until her return to Bolivia, her sisters Olga and Eliana "permanently informed her of everything that occurred and what they did to find out the whereabouts of Juan Carlos and that justice [would be] done." At the end of 1986, she returned to Bolivia and immediately joined the Association for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared Persons and Martyrs for National Liberation (ASOFAMD, from the Spanish). She stated that "[i]f I had been living the pain, anguish, uncertainty, impotence, and frustration of not knowing where Juan Carlos was for years, it was in ASOFAMD that little by little I started to understand and assimilate the deep meaning of the forced disappearance of persons and the tragedy that this horrific and merciless crime represents for the families, even more so when it goes unpunished, as in our case." 210 164. For her part, in her affidavit, Lilian Teresa Flores Bedregal manifested that for "Olga and [her], Juan Carlos was not only our older brother but also our friend and leader, we followed all his steps and accompanied his struggles." 211 In her statement before the Court, Olga Flores Bedregal said "it was very difficult to live like this, first to know what happened with Carlos, and for us it is very difficult to live the mourning when a person is more present than others, because Carlos is present every day; we have to see each other, when we come to this Court, and we are going to go tomorrow as we have to go religiously every July 17, to make those tributes that are wrenching because it is not so much the issue of victimizing because it would give us great pleasure to talk about our brother. We all know that the process of death is going to be inevitable, but it is painful because behind that, there are hidden interests and there is never transparency." 212 165. The feelings that over the years guided Olga Flores Bedregal's efforts to search for Juan Carlos Flores Bedregal are reflected in the publication of a collection of letters to his disappeared brother: "I keep writing to you because [...] the human psique is prepared for death, just as we are born, we die; but "DISAPPEARED," that category, invented by the military, goes against nature. [...] We have been deprived even of mourning your death [...] denying your death, is denying your presence, that one day you existed, with your clean look and those ideals that you loved more than you loved a girlfriend 213 (capital letters as in the original). 209 Expert opinion of Guiomar Hylea Bejarano Gerke rendered by affidavit on February 13, 2020 (case file of evidence, p. 9020 to 9075). 210 Cf. Statement by Verónica Flores Bedregal, supra. 211 Cf. Statement by Lilian Teresa Flores Bedregal, supra. 212 Cf. Statement by Olga Flores Bedregal, supra. 213 Publication: entitled “Carta inconclusa a mi hermano Carlos” [Unfinished Letter to My Brother Carlos], supra. 49