he wanted to be a doctor. The Diario Militar records Carlos Guillermo Ramírez Gálvez as
follows:
66. CARLOS GUILLERMO RAMÍREZ GÁLVEZ
(alias) DOUGLAS. 14-02-84: Captured in Zone 5, delivering grenades and detonators. He sold a 30caliber carbine, possibly to a farmer. 06-03-84: 300.
In addition, section three of the Diario Militar identified him as a “militant of the
[Revolutionary] Organization of the People in Arms (ORPA).”
102. On the evening of February 13, 1984, Carlos Guillermo accompanied his mother to
his grandmother's house and then decided to sleep at his aunt's house. In the early morning
hours of February 14, 1984, heavily armed men arrived at the house where Mr. Ramírez
Gálvez lived and entered indicating that they would conduct a search, because they believed
that Mr. Ramírez Gálvez had a rifle and grenades. Since Mr. Ramírez Gálvez was not there,
they took his father so that the latter could to take them to him. On finding him, they asked
for a wet towel and used it to give Mr. Ramírez Gálvez electric shocks while they
interrogated him. On learning what had happened, his brother Jorge Alberto, went to his
parents’ home and he recounted that, upon arriving, he was held at gunpoint and
questioned and saw how they broke a bottle on his brother’s head.
103. The same day, the family filed a first complaint before the Police. The following day,
the father of Mr. Ramírez Gálvez requested the intervention of the then Head of State, who
received them on one occasion and called for the intervention of the Ministry of Interior.
That same day, the family filed an application for habeas corpus, which determined that he
was not detained in the DIT. On April 18, 1984, they filed another application for habeas
corpus. On July 16, 1984, a first instance judge went to the offices of the National Police to
execute one of the writs for habeas corpus with a negative result.
104. On August 9, 1985, the Supreme Court of Justice issued a writ of habeas corpus for
Mr. Ramírez Gálvez and ordered that information be requested from the Ministry of Defense,
the Ministry of the Interior and the country’s chiefs of police, among others. In response,
the DIT indicated that “having examined the records and logs, […] it had verified that [Mr.
Ramírez Gálvez] has not […] been registered […] or detained […] by members of this
Department.” In addition, on August 13 that year, the DIT recorded that owing to
“insufficient data leading to the clarification of the whereabouts of both the person
kidnapped and the kidnappers, to date, it has not been possible to resolve [the case].” In
December 1985, a writ of habeas corpus on his behalf was executed before the National
Civil Police. On June 24, 1986, another application for habeas corpus was filed on his behalf.
The mother of Mr. Ramírez Gálvez testified that she had filed a total of six applications for
habeas corpus and that, on one occasion, the Public Prosecution Service told her “not to file
any more; it’s a waste of time; he is no longer alive; it’s a waste of time.” The family also
sought assistance from the Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala and the Pro Peace
Commission.
11. Sergio Saúl Linares Morales87
87
The evidence regarding this victim is found in: Diario Militar (file of annexes to the merits report, tome I,
annex 11, folio 377); copy of the entry for the neighborhood identity card of Sergio Saúl Linares Morales (file of
annexes presented by the State on October 17, 2008, tome III, folio 7197); affidavit made by Wilfrida Raquel
Morales Cruz on December 13, 2004 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome II, annex 79, folio 829); affidavit
made by Ruth Crisanta Linares Morales on November 30, 2004 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome II, annex
80, folios 832 and 833); affidavit made by Mirtala Elizabeth Linares Morales on December 10, 2004 (file of annexes
to the merits report, tome II, annex 82, folios 839 and 840); affidavit made by Mirtala Elizabeth Linares Morales on
October 9, 2007 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome II, annex 85, folios 851 and 852); testimony of Ruth
Crisanta Linares Morales before the Public Prosecution Service on October 24, 2006 (file of annexes presented by
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