released eight days later, after having been severely tortured and threatened with death if he did not leave the village.94 110. On March 19, 1985 Ermilio Antezana Cueto and Rosa Carcausto Paco, brother and partner of Santiago Antezana, respectively, filed a complaint with the Prosecution Service of the Nation, requesting an investigation of the incidents to safeguard the personal integrity of Santiago Antezana Cueto and the other detainees, and to identify and punish those responsible. They also requested that measures, required to protect their personal integrity, be ordered. In their complaint they pointed out that: 1) On July 31, 1984, Dr. José Burneo Labrín, of the Legal Counsel Department of the Episcopal Commission for Social Action, by means of a communication sent to the Third Complaints and Reports Department, publicly disclosed the Memorandum Letter sent by our relatives and fellow members of the Peasant Community of Manyacc (village of the District of Anta, province of Acobamba, department of Huancavelica), reporting the detention and virtual disappearance of many persons, among whom there was SANTIAGO ANTEZANA CUETO, brother and partner, respectively, of the complainants. 95 2) On September 13, 1984, Ofelia Antezana Torre and others brought to attention the reports received from our relatives and fellow community members […] It was indicated that SANTIAGO ANTEZANA CUETO continued to be a detainee-missing person, along with Demetrio Chávez Aguilar, Juan Ignacio Velásquez Araujo, and Emiliano Antezana Espeza. 3) […] 4) The parents and other next of kin of Santiago Antezana Cueto were in the province of Acobamba; when he was informed of the death of his father, Abraham Antezana Espeza, he decided to travel there. He left Lima in April 1984 […]. In Manyacc he stayed at the house of his uncle Máximo Antezana Espeza, the brother of his deceased father. 5) As indicated in the previous complaints, Manyacc was undergoing a situation of uncertainty as a result of the violence from the insurgents and the counterinsurgency forces. Members of the Armed Forces, along with a group of peasants who were acting as “paramilitaries” perpetrated a series of abuses and atrocities allegedly to combat terrorism. […] From the accounts of persons held as detainees-missing persons, Máximo Antezana Espeza was released from the Garrison of Acobamba, after having been severely tortured and threatened with death if he did not leave the village and if he reported what had occurred there. 6) Santiago Antezana Cueto was detained when he tried to defend his uncle Máximo Antezana Espeza from the paramilitaries, and both were detained by the latter and handed over to the Army. They were then taken, along with others, by military personnel to the Military Garrison of Acobamba. At this garrison, their next of kin were denied any information about them; on the contrary they were threatened with: “the same will happen to you if you keep on 94 Annex 35. Communication from the petitioners of April 28, 2000. Complaint addressed to the Attorney General of the Nation, received on September 13, 1984, filed by Ofelia Antezana Torre and Ermilio Antezana Cueto, the cousin and brother of Santiago Antezana Cueto. 95 Annex 36. Complaint filed with the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation on March 19, 1985. Annex to initial petition. There is a transcription of the memorial-letter as follows: “We the Community are suffering from a calamity, please help us all who live in Lima, we are dying of hunger and cold, we have nothing to each, we are in the mountains eating earth and our houses have been burned and our animals were eaten by the soldiers (Army) and the whole Community we are accused of terrorism, men and women, and today 6 persons have disappeared Demetrio Chávez, Santiago Antezana, Juan Velásquez. Máximo Antezana, Emiliano Antezana, those are the ones who disappeared and many were detained, the soldiers abused them and we went to ask about them and they said they are in Acobamba, the army came into the village of Manyacc on May 12 of the present year…”(sic)