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September of 1995, asking for her son, she was not allowed to communicate with
him.
79(11) Bricelda Aide García Lobo, saw her son alive for the last time on September
16, 1995, at 1:00 in the afternoon, when she saw him go up to the second floor of
the CORE VII, while under the custody of State agents. On September 17, 1995 the
body of Marco Antonio Servellón García was found dead close to the surroundings of
a place known as “El Lolo”.
79(12) The autopsy practiced on Marco Antonio Servellón García’s body on
September 19, 1995 revealed that the victim presented four wounds caused by a fire
arm whose entrance wounds were: one at the level of the right retro auricular
region; one at the level of the right occipital: one in the cheekbone of the face, and
one in the region of the left occipital, that is the four shots were directed to his face
and head.
79(13) The autopsy did not refer to the state of Marco Antonio Servellón García’s
body, nor did it prove that there were wounds caused with a blade, evidence of
beatings, bruises, or signs on his wrists. The Public Prosecutors’ Office, in its Report
of Ocular Inspections of September 17, 1995, mentioned that the victim “was found
at the side of the road, toward [E]l [L]olo, he had signs on his wrists as if he would
have [(sic)] been tied up, [and that] a white tennis lace was found next to his right
hand.”22 The Office of the Public Prosecutor did not take pictures of the body,
because it did not have film.
D)
Arrest, torture, and extrajudicial killing of Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez
79(14) Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez was born on November 2, 1977 in the
Department of Choluteca, Honduras. He was the son of Manases Betancourth Núñez
and Hilda Estebana Hernández López. He lived in the Colony of Nueva Suyapa and he
had finished the third grade of his primary education. According to the statement
given by the father of Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, he had been a “gang
member” at the age of fourteen, reason for which the father had filed a complaint
against the gang in order to save him. According to Mr. Betancourth Núñez the gang
was later disbanded. At the time of his arrest Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez was
17 years old.
79(15) Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez was detained in the collective arrest of
September 15, 1995. He was beaten on the way to and during his stay at the CORE
VII. Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez indicated through signs to Carlos Yovanny
Arguijo Hernández, who had also been arrested on that same day, that he was going
to be killed, “that he was going to have his head cut off, since [Rony] took one of his
hands to his neck, making him understand […] and what was what he heard him say
‘if they kill me, they kill me…’ since [Rony] told [him] that they were saying that he
belonged to the mara of the poison.”23 He was detained with adults.
22
Cfr. report of ocular inspections No. 2192 issued by the Public Prosecutors’ Office on September
17, 1995 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folio 1006).
23
Cfr. statement offered by Carlos Yovanny Arguijo Hernández before the Second Criminal Peace
Court on March 20, 1996 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folios 1146 through
1148).