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requested and received a "certificate of absence by reason of forced disappearance”,
under the terms of Act 28.413.120
101. Based on the foregoing, the Court deems that in cases of forced
disappearance of persons, the victim is placed in a situation of legal uncertainty that
prevents, impedes or eliminates the possibility of the individual to be entitled to or
effectively exercise his or her rights in general, in one of the most serious forms of
non-compliance with the State’s duties to respect and guarantee human rights. This
was translated into the violation of the right to juridical personality of Mr. Anzualdo
Castro.
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102. Before these facts, the State had not only the obligation to respect the
infringed rights, but also to guarantee them by means of the diligent prevention and
investigation into the forced disappearance. Upon his disappearance, the state
authorities must have conducted a serious, complete and effective investigation to
determine his fate or whereabouts and the truth of the facts, to identify the
responsible and, if applicable, to impose the corresponding punishments, for which
the State should have provided a suitable regulatory framework that would allow it to
ensure the effective guarantee of the rights by means of the available remedies. The
assessment of the obligation to guarantee such rights, by means of effective
investigations into what happened and the existence of an appropriate regulatory
framework shall be made in the following Chapter of this Judgment. For the purposes
of determining the alleged violations, it is enough to point out that, in this case, the
State has not effectively guarantee the rights enshrined in the provisions analyzed by
means of the domestic procedures.
103. Based on the foregoing reasons, the Court considers that the State is
responsible for the forced disappearance of Mr. Anzualdo Castro, committed within
the framework of a systematic practice of that type of serious human rights
violations, fostered, implemented and consented by state agents at the time of the
events. Consequently, the State is responsible for the violation of the rights to
personal liberty, humane treatment, life and juridical personality, embodied in Articles
7(1), 7(6), 5(1), 5(2), 4(1) and 3 of the Convention, in conjunction with Article 1(1)
thereof and Article I of the ICFDP, to the detriment of Mr. Kenneth Ney Anzualdo
Castro.
B.2
Right to humane treatment of the next-of-kin
104. The Commission and the representatives alleged that the State is responsible
for the violation of the right to humane treatment of the next-of-kin of Kenneth Ney
Anzualdo Castro, that is, his father, Félix Vicente Anzualdo Vicuña; his mother, Iris
Isabel Castro Cachay de Anzualdo, who died on October 26, 2006; and his siblings,
Marly Arleny Anzualdo Castro and Rommel Darwin Anzualdo Castro.
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According to what the representatives informed, which was not contested by the State, there is a
law in Peru that governs the possibility of requesting the absence due to forced disappearance, in order to
“provide victims’ families […] the necessary resources to have access to the recognition of their rights”, by
means of a judicial declaration, which has the same effects that the judicial declaration of presumptive
death. Cf. section 13 of Act 28.413 of November 24, 2004 (record of evidence, volume VIII, appendix 19
to the brief of pleadings and motions, pages 3028-3030).
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