31 wounds are compatible with those produced by a long metal instrument that is sharp on one of its sides, which acts through its weight and edge (machete) […].”29 79(34) The bullets extracted from the bodies of Marco Antonio Servellón García, Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, and Diomedes Obed García Sánchez were shot by the same fire weapon. The caliber of the bullet found in Orlando Álvarez Ríos’ body could not be determined due to its deformation. The Human Rights inspector subordinated to the Office of Criminal Investigation expressed that its hypothesis was that the four deaths were related, reason for which he decided to investigate them in a joint manner. 79(35) In the murders of Marco Antonio Servellón García, Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, Orlando Álvarez Ríos, and Diomedes Obed García Sánchez a common modus operandi was used, and they occurred within in the context of extrajudicial killings of children and youngsters in risky situations that existed at the time of the facts in Honduras (supra paras. 79(1), 79(2), and 79(3)). H) Regarding the police investigations and the criminal proceedings initiated as a result of the deaths of Marco Antonio Servellón García, Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, Orlando Álvarez Ríos, and Diomedes Obed García Sánchez 79(36) After September 18, 1995 the Main Prosecutor of the Human Rights Public Prosecutors’ Office received from the Human Rights Inspector of the Office of Criminal Investigation, a report on the claim made by Mrs. Marja Ibeth Castro García for the illegal arrest of her brother Marco Antonio Servellón García and the investigations that had been carried out by the Human Rights Public Prosecutor’s Office as a result of said claim.30 79(37) On October 5, 1995 the First Assistant of the National Human Rights Commission forwarded to the Special Human Rights Prosecutor the claim presented by Dilcia Álvarez Ríos, in which she argued that her brother Orlando Álvarez Ríos had been found dead with two bullet shots to the head. The First Assistant of the National Human Rights Commission requested that the corresponding investigations regarding the case be carried out.31 79(38) On March 5, 1996 Mr. Manases Betancourth Núñez, father of the minor Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, presented a criminal accusation “for the crimes of Abuse of Authority and Violation of the Duties of Officials, Illegal Arrest, and Murder against Messrs. Lieutenant Colonel David Abraham Mendoza Regional Commander of the FUSEP, the Captains [Miguel Ángel] Villatoro [Aguilar], [Egberto] Arias [Aguilar], [Rodolfo] Pagoada [Medina], [Juan Ramón] Ávila [Meza], the Effective Lieutenants Marco Tulio Regalado [Hernández], [José Francisco] Valencia [Velásquez], [Edilberto] 29 Cfr. expansion of the legal medical report of the specialist in Legal Medicine and Forensic Pathology of the Public Prosecutors’ Office of December 8, 1995 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume 1, folios 927 and 928). 30 Cfr. report of the Human Rights Inspector of the Office of Criminal Investigation, Nery Suyapa Osorio, addressed to the Main Prosecutor of the Human Rights Public Prosecutors’ Office, Sonia Marlina Durbor de Flores, on September 17, 1995 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folio 987 through 990). 31 Cfr. official letter of the First Assistant of the National Human Rights Commission, Irma Esperanza Pineda Santos, addressed to the Special Human Rights Public Prosecutor, Sonia Marlina Dubor de Flores, of October 5, 1995 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folio 952).

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