house of Herminio Deras García and Otilia Flores Ortiz, where they found around 20 armed agents guarding the house and using it as a center of operations. Lorena Deras Flores, who was 11, and her brother Herminio Deras Flores, seven, told them that their mother Otilia Flores Ortiz (infra para. 53) had been captured, so they tried to enter the house, but the officers blocked them. Domingo Deras Henríquez objected to the behavior of the officers, who reacted by shoving him outside. They did the same to Eustaquia García Alvarado, who was asking them to let her stay with her grandchildren Lorena and Herminio Deras Flores. 53. Otilia Flores Ortiz was detained on November 26, 1981, at 4:00 p.m., by soldiers from the Third Infantry Battalion, DNI agents and the police, who forced her to sit on a chair in her home while they tried to discover her husband’s whereabouts. When they failed, she was taken, along with her sister Elba Flores Ortiz, who was also in the home, to the DNI cells in San Pedro Sula, where they were interrogated several times to find out where Herminio Deras García was. Otilia and Elba Flores Ortiz were then bound hand and foot, blindfolded, and taken to the Casamata police station in Tegucigalpa, where they were lined up for a mock firingsquad execution. The Flores sisters were lying down on the seats of the bus, and armed officers pointed guns at them the whole time. 54. When they reached police headquarters in Casamata, they were not allowed to have water 54 or food, and every hour the interrogator had guns fired within their hearing to frighten them. 55 The Flores sisters remained in that facility from the night of Saturday, November 26 through Monday, November 28, 1981. When they returned home, the Flores sisters found Lorena and Herminio Deras Flores traumatized and nervous, and Elba Flores Ortiz’ newborn daughter, crying. Their children had been in the custody of police, military, and investigation officers the whole time the women were being held. 56 55. Otilia Flores Ortiz sent a letter to the provisional President of Honduras on December 6, 1981, reporting the illegal raid on her home and the seizure of books and personal effects. The President did not answer her letter or order an investigation. 56. Members of the police and army, along with DNI agents, raided the Deras García family home in the city of El Progreso on June 8, 1984. The agents forced Irma Deras García to go outside in her sleepwear, bound her wrists and apprehended her, along with members of her family: her niece Sandra Hernández Deras, 57, who was 19 years old, her sister Consuelo Deras García, 58 her cousin Marlen García Pineda, 59 her brother-in-law Cristóbal Hernández Pérez, 60 54 Otilia Flores said: “My period started, and they took me to a room with no doors to get changed, […] they never gave us or offered us anything the whole three days, not even water.” Statement by Otilia Flores Ortiz, supra. 55 In the words of Otilia Flores, “when we arrived in Tegucigalpa, they shut us into a cell, all full of mud because it was the rainy season, it was very cold, […] we were there for three days, tied up, blindfolded, with nothing to eat or drink, when we arrived in Tegucigalpa they lined up all of us who were there, we heard them firing weapons as if they were going to execute us, it was terrible psychological harassment and I have not been able to get over it […] I thought it would never see my children again.” Statement by Otilia Flores Ortiz, supra. 56 Herminio Deras Flores said in a statement that he had been “held captive with soldiers in my house, together with my sister Lorena and my cousin María del Carmen […] there were some three to five young soldiers. They were in our rooms in the house. I remember that the soldiers were in my mother’s room and they didn't let us move around inside the house—only to certain places at certain times. I hardly ate at all during those days. I remember that I ate sometimes, sitting cross-legged on the floor with the plate in my lap. I also remember going to sleep in the bed and feeling the absence of my parents. I did not understand why there were people in my house all the time, in uniforms, and I felt very frightened: fear because of uncertainty, I did not know what was happening or what was going to happen. […] I realized I could not speak freely, even young as I was. I was afraid they would hurt me.” Statement by Herminio Deras Flores, (evidence file, folios 2370 and 2371). 57 Daughter of Consuelo Deras García and niece of Herminio Deras García. 58 Consuelo Deras García was still recovering from a stroke that had sent her to the hospital. 59 Cousin of the Deras García siblings, who lived with the Deras García family because of her job. 60 Husband of Consuelo Deras García and brother-in-law of Herminio Deras García.