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other located 3 cm. under the right ear. The autopsy does not refer to blade wounds,
bruises, or other marks that could have been found on the body of Orlando Álvarez
Ríos.
79(23) Orlando Álvarez Ríos’ body was found with signs of having been object of
sexual violence. The State did not perform exams to investigate whether the victim
was sexually abused before his extrajudicial killing.
F)
Arrest, torture, and extrajudicial killing of Diomedes Obed García Sánchez
79(24) Diomedes Obed García Sánchez was born on August 20, 1974 in Trujillo,
Department of Colón, and he lived in the Colony of San Miguel of Tegucigalpa. He
was the son of Diomedes Tito García Casildo and Andrea Sánchez Loredo. He lived in
the “Nazareth” house, coordinated by Mr. Carlos Jorge Mahomar Marzuca, dedicated
to offer housing to youngsters with behavioral problems and drug addictions. At the
time of his arrest he was 19 years old.
79(25) He was arrested between the 15th and 16th day of September of 1995 in the
surroundings of a video game establishment located next to the Church of la Merced
in Tegucigalpa. He was later transported in a police vehicle to the CORE VII. His
arrest was not recorded in the corresponding registries, reason for which he does not
appear on the list of those “pardoned” on September 16, 1995.
79(26) Diomedes Obed García Sánchez had been previously threatened by the
Lieutenant José Alberto Alfaro Martínez, when the latter told him that “he would give
him fifty lempiras […] to disappear from Tegucigalpa; and this was before being
arrested, like on a Monday; and, he told him that if he were to end up there again,
he knew what would happen to him, that they were going to finish him off.”24
79(27) Marvin Rafael Díaz, in his statement given before the Public Human Rights
Prosecutors’ Office on September 20, 1995, stated that Diomedes Obed García
Sánchez was taken to the second floor of the CORE VII when Lieutenant Marco Tulio
Regalado Hernández threatened him saying: “you see I told you what was going to
happen to you the next time, that I did not want to see you here,” to which
Diomedes responded that “he had been taken in without reason, that he was not
stealing anything.” At the CORE VII the Lieutenants Marco Tulio Regalado
Hernández, José Alberto Alfaro Martínez, Hugo Antonio Vivas, José Antonio Martínez
Arrazola made death threats to Marlon Antonio Martínez Pineda, known as “Big
Foot”, and to Diomedes Obed García Sánchez.
79(28) On October 30, 1995 Marlon Antonio Martínez Pineda, known as “Big Foot”,
and another youngster named Milton Adaly Sevilla Guardado were found dead in a
similar manner to the victims of the present case.
79(29) Days prior to his death, Diomedes Obed García Sánchez told his girlfriend
“they had already told him that they were going to kill him.”25 Likewise, prior to
24
Cfr. statement offered by Marvin Rafael Díaz before the Second Criminal Peace Court on March
19, 1996 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folio 1201 through 1203). In
consideration of the context of the statement, the Court understands that “finish” means kill.
25
Cfr. statement offered by Krisell Mahely Amador before the Second Criminal Peace Court on
October 11, 1995 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folios 1183 through 1186).