26 The investigation conducted by Prosecutor Cubas was sent to the military courts, but there, the next of kin “were never […] accepted.” Upon the end of Fujimori´s government, the next of kin took some measures before the Prosecutor´s Office in order that the case be reopened. In the current proceedings, where she gave testimony, "the officers of the highest rank in the forces, who ordered that the students of La Cantuta were killed, are not [being tried.]” She received threats “many times”: she received calls and flowers with the warning that she would "die, as [her] son had died.” Her family “is not the same. One of [her] sons is in a bad way.” Sometimes her sons complain because she is not with them, but she explains to them that “it is necessary to go on.” Before his son was arrested, she took in washing and worked at the market. She quit her job and devoted herself to the search of justice. She received a pecuniary compensation and used it to buy a house and pay some debts she had incurred in the different steps and actions she had taken. However, "that is not the price of [her] son.” In the memorial “El Ojo que llora” (the “Crying Eye”), donated by the Jesús María Municipality, she wrote the name of her son and “she did not know that the State had built it.” c) Antonia Pérez-Velásquez, wife of Hugo Muñoz-Pérez When his husband was arrested, she resorted to the University authorities, but they did not know what had happened. The personnel of the military base of the University told her that they had conducted no procedure. So, she went to police stations, military barracks and to the DINCOTE, but her search was unsuccessful. “It was as if he had vanished off the face of the earth.” In the mass media, they said that it was “practically […] impossible to give any news, any report on the subject since […] as they were afraid of the government´s reaction.” Some next of kin or friends that were members of any of the armed forces, advised her to do nothing and to keep silent because she and her children were in hazard, since the disappearance of her husband had been "something decided by the government, by top governmental officers." The disappearance of her husband “had strongly affected her, first because she suddenly becam[e] a single mother with two kids under four years old, and unexpectedly, in order that [she and her] children could be safe, she had to leave a nice, comfortable house at the university, where she lived a relatively peaceful life, and move to a small house. She asked lodging to a relative […]. Suddenly, they were living on the terrace roof of that house, they ha[d] to improvise two rooms with little pieces of cardboard, plywood (triplay) and matting […] They start[ed] to live in such precarious conditions.” Her husband was so “devoted to their children” that her eldest daughter was the one most affected by his disappearance. She lied to her daughter about what had happened with her father: she told her that he was on a business trip, but her daughter did not believe her. When she took a long time to arrive home, her daughter thought she would not come back either.

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