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Her family resorted to the Court hoping to find Marco Antonio, to establish
what happened to him, where he is, and for his remains to be returned to
them. She asked the Court to order an investigation into the direct
perpetrators and masterminds, for them to be tried and punished; she
requested support for the Comisión Nacional de Búsqueda de la Niñez
Desaparecida; and that the Court follow up on their case.
d)
Testimony of Emma Guadalupe Molina Theissen, Marco Antonio
Molina Theissen´s sister.
She was born in Guatemala. She currently lives in Costa Rica and is a Costa
Rican citizen. She is a systems engineer and works as Director of Information
Systems at the Sociedad de Seguros de Vida del Magisterio Nacional.
On September 27, 1981, about 8 a.m., she was traveling from Guatemala
City to Quetzaltenango on a bus that was stopped in the Department of Sololá
by an army roadblock. Members of the army ordered the passengers to get
off the bus and searched them. She had internal documents and propaganda
of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo with her. When the soldiers searched
her they realized that she had those documents and detained her. The
soldiers took her to a vacant house in Santa Lucía Utatlán, and she was
interrogated there all day, into the afternoon. Then they took her in a
vehicle, blindfolded and handcuffed, to a place that she later identified as the
Manuel Lisandro Barillas military base in Quetzaltenango.
During the time that she was detained at the military base, from September
27 to October 5, 1981, she was never taken before a judge. When she was
transferred to the base, they took her to a sort of “barracks” where nonuniformed army personnel slept, for which reason she concluded that they
were intelligence staff.
Her detainment within the military base was
clandestine.
During the first two days of her detention she was interrogated during the day
by two men who sought to establish who she was, what she knew, and what
she did within the organization. During those two days there was no physical
violence, but the evening of the second day, when she refused to give the
men the information they were demanding and that she did not know, they
got very angry and took her blindfolded and handcuffed to a part of the
building of the military base. There they took her to a room, made her lie
down and handcuffed her to the bedrails. Later that night, in the early hours
of dawn, and repeatedly afterwards, every day after that night, several men
came into the room, tortured her, and at one time several soldiers came into
the room and raped her.
On the fifth day after she was captured, two individuals talked to her and
asked her if she was willing to make public statements and urge youths and
parents to not allow their children to belong to the guerrilla forces. The
witness told them she would. They told her that, in exchange for that, she
must say absolutely everything she knew, houses, print shops, persons, and
so forth. On the seventh day they took her out of the room and asked her to
bathe; she put on the clothes that they gave her and they made her get onto
an army vehicle with four or five men in civilian clothing but armed. They
drove around the city of Quetzaltenango for her to identify anyone she knew
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