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three legs.” He turned around and a bullet reached him in the back and another on
the hand, and the palm of his hand blew open. He was lying face down when a
soldier with a shotgun and balaclava put the weapon in his mouth, insulted him, and
kicked him. He asked for water because he was very thirsty, he felt pain in his hand
and back, he had a “hole” in his clavicle. Approximately one hour later two soldiers
took him by the hand that hurt and pulled him up by the arm, “like if he were a sack
of potatoes” and threw him into a military truck where there were other wounded
persons. They threw other people on top of him. He was then taken to the police
hospital.
In the Police Hospital they stitched up his hand in such a manner that he ended up
with many scars and he cannot move it well. During the time he was in the hospital
“the doctors told [them] that there was no medicines for [them].” The International
Red Cross was constantly supervising that they had medicines. In the hospital he
was guarded by three or four armed police officers that did not allow anyone to enter
his room.
Two weeks later he was transferred to the “Carrión” hospital, where he was kept in a
dirty area, without windows, very noisy, without clothes, and with his wounds
became infected since they were not given the medicines that had been provided by
the Red Cross. The Red Cross “was not allowed entrance until after15 days had gone
by.” After approximately one month and a half they were transferred again to the
Criminal Center Castro Castro without clothes or shoes. Since it was winter the cold
made his bones and wounds hurt more. In the Criminal Center Castro Castro they
kept on “torturing them”, they played military marches at 6 a.m. at a very high
volume; they were beaten; they were given electrical discharges; they were not
allowed to perform any activity such as reading or working; they could not go out to
the yard; they remained confined 24 hours in cells of 2x1.80mts without sunlight;
the food they were given was dirty, and it even had small rocks; and they were
forced to walk through two lines of guards, who beat them with sticks and irons. He
had to undergo all these “tortures” when he was recovering of the injuries caused by
the bullet wounds.
Family visits were allowed six months after the events of the Criminal Center Castro
Castro.
His mother suffered a lot and “the tension caused her cancer”; she died two years
ago. During the days of the attack his mother cried a lot and she felt very bad that
the witness was being “bombed [and] killed” and she could not do anything about it.
He is in his fifth year of Law School in the University of San Marcos. He also works in
civil construction. Currently, besides the injuries caused by the bullets (which include
the scars), he has an injury in his ear that has decreased his hearing capacity, which
was caused by an explosion during the attack on the criminal center. Besides, he has
movement problems in his hand, which has made it difficult for him to carry out
certain tasks, and he cannot lift his arm “completely”. He has many difficulties
hearing a person in a normal conversation, and even more so his classes.
In Peru nobody has been prosecuted and no authority has assumed responsibility for
what happened.