15 blood on his clothes, a broken finger on one of his hands, a piece of flesh dangling, and holes in both hands. Emilio’s body said “24 years old.” There were other corpses at that place in like conditions. He went to file the complaint at the prefect’s office, where they only wrote down the information on what happened and sent him to the Palacio de Justicia, where he did not go because he thought that at that time it would be closed. Afterwards he entered the morgue to take charge of his sons’ bodies and prepare the wake, which was held the following day. Emilio’s body was given to them first on Saturday, and the wife of the witness had to take steps for Rafael’s body to be given to them that same day, as the autopsy was only going to be done on Monday. The following day, he heard the names of his sons on a television report about a confrontation with the police, in which “three terrorists” died. The family received support from the International Red Cross and from human rights organizations to cover the expenses and the debts that they had to pay. The family has been harassed at their home by the intelligence service, by the police, by television and by journalists. He came to testify before the Inter-American Court for justice to be done against the masterminds in the case. e. Testimony of Miguel Ángel Gómez Paquiyauri, brother of the alleged victims When the facts took place, on June 21, 1999, he was 8 years old. That day he was at home, when a tumult and shots could be heard on the street. His brothers Emilio and Rafael went out to the street to see what was happening. They came back to the house and remarked that it was a “confrontation among cops” and that there were dead people on the street. Then, his brothers went to their mother’s workplace, as they did everyday to bring food, because their mother worked in a diner. His brother Emilio took a copy of his birth certificate with him and his brother Rafael had his military card. Later he heard from their neighbors that his brothers had been detained by policemen and then beaten, trampled and put into the trunk of a patrol car, and that they had been taken to an unknown destination. After this, he went to his mother’s workplace to let her know what had happened. When she heard the news, his mother got nervous and they went home. On the way back, he heard on the radio that at Urbanización Cima – where they lived- there had been a “terrorist confrontation.” When they arrived, his mother went to ask the neighbors what had happened. Then his sister Haydeé, who was pregnant at the time, felt ill and they took her to the hospital. Afterwards he went back home with his sister, and his mother went to look for his brothers. His sister Lucy told them that they had found their brothers at the morgue. The event left its mark on the child and harmed him “a lot”; he had nightmares, he dreamt of them, and his nerves were in very bad shape. After he saw the bodies and the photographs, he felt deep grief, “I have no words