-36to provide the information for June 1982. The Hospital’s report did not mention cases of girl children interned owing to gunshot wounds, but merely indicated that the hospital could not trace the names of these children. Additionally, the court did not ask for information based on data other than the first and last names of the children. The file of the criminal proceedings does not show that the Trial Court took any action with regard to other hospitals. 48(38) On September 23, 1996, the Executive Secretary of the Salvadoran Red Cross informed the Chalatenango Trial Court that “the children, HERLINDA (sic) AND ERNESTINA [Serrano Cruz] were not among the children [the] Red Cross took care of in 1982, under the displaced persons program.” The Trial Court did not receive any information from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), from which it had requested this information. Additionally, the court only requested information based on the first and last names of the alleged victims. 48(39) On October 21, 1997, in response to the orders of the Chalatenango Trial Court at the request of the prosecutor assigned by the Special Crimes Unit, personnel of the Fourteenth Magistrate’s Court of San Salvador visited the central offices of the Salvadoran Red Cross to inspect the 1982 records of the Displaced Persons Counseling and Attention Program. The Director General of the Salvadoran Red Cross stated that “he d[id] not have [the] 1982 records on counseling and care for displaced persons, since the International Red Cross […] offices in […] Guatemala had those documents or records, […] because, as a result of the peace agreements, this institution had left” El Salvador. On December 4, 1997, around a month and a half after this inspection, the Chalatenango Trial Court received the respective report. On May 27, 1998, the Chalatenango Trial Court decreed that the proceedings should be filed (supra para. 48(25)), even though the inspection of the Red Cross records had not been completed. 48(40) On June 28, 1999, the new deputy prosecutor of the Special Crimes Unit requested that “an official communication be sent to the International Committee of the Red Cross, with offices in Guatemala, [asking it] to advise whether it had attended the children,” Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz. 48(41) On July 2, 1999, one year and seven months after the Fourteenth Magistrate’s Court of San Salvador had advised that the required records were at the International Committee of the Red Cross (supra para. 48(39)), the Chalatenango Trial Court issued an official communication to the Minister of Foreign Affairs requesting his “assistance, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to request the [said] Committee[, …with] offices in Guatemala, to advise whether their offices had cared for the children, Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz, and what had happened to them.” 48(42) On November 3, 2000, one year and four months after the request to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (supra para. 48(41)), the assistant prosecutor of the Special Crimes Unit sent the Chalatenango Trial Court a communication dated May 30, 2000, signed by the Regional Representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross for Central America and the Caribbean, addressed to the Chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of El Salvador in Guatemala, in which this Committee advised that, “in El Salvador, they had not received any request from the next of kin of Erlinda and Ernestina Serrano Cruz to look for them [and their] files contained no record that representatives of [this institution] had taken charge of them in Chalatenango.”