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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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