10 35. The above mentioned participants of the public hearing before this Court, as well as the aforementioned amicus curiae, expressed a common concern, and also a common purpose, even though through arguments of different nuances. I understand that the InterAmerican Court has paid attention to this common concern and has contributed to this also common purpose, when determining, in a very clear way, that the so called self-amnesty “laws” “were unable to generate effects, do not keep them at present, nor can they be generated in the future.”12 Said “laws” of self-amnesty are not truly laws, but a legal aberration, an affront to the recta ratio. III. The Inadmissible Aggression against the Universitas. 36. There is another aspect in this case of La Cantuta that deeply moves me, at the time I complete 12 years as Incumbent Judge of this Court and 30 years as university Professor.13 I find myself obliged to express my unbreakable faith in the Universitas, and my conviction that, in the cas d'espèce, apart from the State crime perpetrated in the victims detriment (a Professor and 9 university students) and their next of kin, an inadmissible aggression was committed against an institution of universality character: the University, in this case in particular, the University of La Cantuta. 37. On July 6, 1953, the University of La Cantuta opened its doors; its name derives from the fact that “it was built in an ancient town that had the name of the Incas heraldic flower, which is cultivated along the Mantaro valley, with red and yellow tints.”14 The above mentioned University prepared future teachers for practicing in schools (high school level) of the country, that is, it had a social and teaching function (although it was already taken by military forces since May 21, 1991).15 38. But apart from the teaching and social function that it represents in each country, the University would hardly be realized without the supranational function - beyond the State - that belongs to it by an intrinsic demand.16 At present, broad ways of communication and understanding are available for the new generations, more than in other times, for exchanging ideas, the refinement of the concentration capacity, discernment and criticism, intergenerational dialogue (between professors and students), to look for the construction of a fairer and better world for future generations. We are summoned to rethink the whole conceptual universe within which we are trained, in our vision of both the 12 Para. 189, and operative paragraph No. 7 (emphasis added). 13 Permanently settled in Brasilia, but as invited Professor in many of the main Universities in every continent. 14 Efraín Rúa, El Crimen de La Cantuta - La Desaparición y Muerte de un Profesor y Nueve Estudiantes que Estremeció al País, 4th. ed., Lima, Universidad La Cantuta, 2005, p. 41. 15 Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH), De la Tierra Brotó la Verdad - Crimen e Impunidad en el Caso La Cantuta, Lima, APRODEH, 1994, p. 9. 16 As it is known, the Universities appeared in the European continent during the Low Middle Age, cultivating essentially scholastic reasoning and debating methods. By the end of the 14th Century, the concept of University approached this of today; during Renaissance, the term Universitas acquires the present meaning . The feeling of universality was encouraged by the use of Latin, by the culture of universal knowledge (to be spread everywhere), and by the gradual search of authors of every culture. As time went by (until the 18th Century), Universities looked for their legal autonomy.