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Nobody dared report the events for fear of reprisals by the armed forces. Likewise,
the court authorities of that time disregarded peasants’ complaints daily submitted
reporting alleged disappearances, tortures and murders, as well as alleged damages
to property. On October 30, 1990, the Federación de Instituciones de la Provincia de
Vilcashuamán (Federation of Institutions of the Province of Vilcashuamán) filed a
complaint before the Cámara de Senadores de la República (Senate of the Republic).
Afterwards, on November 16, 1990, together with his brother Vicente BaldeónYllaconza, he filed a petition for an investigation before an investigating committee of
the Senate. On that same year he filed complaints before human rights entities such
as APRODEH and Amnesty International.
The complaints filed before the Fiscalía de la Nación (General Prosecutor´s Office of
Peru) in 1991 and before the Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Pacificación del
Congreso (Committee of Human Rights and Pacification of the Congress) on October
1, 1993, were not seriously investigated. The investigation commenced after the
filing of the complaint before the Prosecutor’s office at Vilcashuamán in July 2000,
was referred to a “Fiscalía Especializada en Desapariciones Forzadas, Ejecuciones
Extrajudiciales y Exhumación de Fosas Clandestinas de Ayacucho” (Prosecutor’s
Office Specialized in Forced Disappearances, Extrajudicial Executions, and
Exhumation of Clandestine Graves of Ayacucho). In 2001, the Fiscalía Especializada
(Specialized Prosecutor’s Office) started an investigation within the scope of the
Ministerio Público (Office of the Attorney General) and on August 25, 2005, the
judicial investigation was started. It was not until 2005 that a serious investigation
commenced in order to solve the case.
Since the beginning of the judicial investigation in 2005, the testimonies of
Guadalupe Yllaconza-Ramirez, victim’s mother, of himself, and of Santos BaldeónPalacios, Fernando Baldeón-Flores, Benigno Urquiza-Rivera, Juan Urquiza-Flores,
Feliciano Urquiza-Rivera and Aurea Baldeón-Ocaña were provided, and a judicial
inspection was also made in Pacchauallhua, District of Independencia, a place where
“his father and [...] other two persons had been detained.”
On January 13 and 14, 2005 the Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense
(hereinafter “EPAF”) (Peruvian Team of Forensic Anthropology) within the scope of
the investigation carried on by the prosecutor, conducted a medical examination on
the corpse of his father. The witness and his sister Fidela Baldeón-Yllaconza were
present during said examination, also made “in the presence of the municipal
authorities of the district of Accomarca.” The Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos
Humanos (National Coordination Office of Human Rights) and APRODEH provided
them with a coffin and transportation to the cemetery of Ñuñunhuaynlyocccucho,
District of Independencia, Province of Vilcashuamán, were it was buried.
Up to this date, the authorities have not arrested the perpetrators. He will not give
up until justice is done. Furthermore, he expects that the Inter-American Court may
be the “means that all his family has striven for in their quest for justice, that has
not been successful so far, and he further expects that it may fix the amount of a
reparation that may be proportional to the suffering caused to him and his family.”
2.
Guadalupe Yllaconza-Ramirez de Baldeón, wife of Bernabé BaldeónGarcía