14 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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