Raúl Gustavo Jiménez Chávez and Army Lieutenant Colonel Juan Alfonso Valer Sandoval, 157 as well as the 14 members of the MRTA. 158 Injuries were sustained by several hostages and government officials.159 165. According to the report prepared by the Commander General of the First Division of the Special Forces after the operation had ended, the 14 MRTA members had died during the clash with military personnel.160 However, based on certain statements to the press in December 2000161 and a letter subsequently sent to the judiciary in 2001162 by former hostage Hidetaka Ogura, who at the time the hostages were taken by the MRTA at the Japanese ambassador’s residence was serving as first secretary to the embassy of Japan in Peru, 163 there were questions about the circumstances surrounding the death of MRTA members Eduardo Nicolás Cruz Sánchez, Herma Luz Meléndez Cueva and Víctor Salomón Peceros Pedraza, and whether they had been subject to extrajudicial execution, which is the matter under analysis in this judgment (infra Chapter IX). Cf. Autopsy protocol 97-1967 of Infantry Colonel Juan Alfonso Valer Sandoval, April 22, 1997 (evidence file, volume II, annex 14 to the case submission brief, folios 710 to 714); autopsy protocol 97-1968 of Lieutenant Gustavo Jiménez Chávez, April 22, 1997 (evidence file, volume II, annex 14 to the case submission brief, folios 715 to 719); Report 01/1st Div FFEE Operation “Chavín de Huántar” (hostage rescue operation) April 30, 1997, p. 11 (evidence file, volume I, annex 2.a to the case submission brief, folio 52), and Annex 02, Report on Operation “Tenaz Patrol”, April 30, 1997, p. 15 (merits file, volume II, annex 7 offered by the State for planning the exercise of ��reconstruction of the facts”, folio 1022). 157 Cf. Report 01/1st Div FFEE Operation “Chavín de Huántar” (hostage rescue operation) April 30, 1997, p. 11 (evidence file, volume I, annex 2.a to the case submission brief, folio 52); report on identification and removal of the bodies of MRTA members found in the residence of the Japanese ambassador, April 23, 1997 (evidence file, volume I, annex 6 to the case submission brief, folios 116 to 124), and Annex 02, Report on Operation “Tenaz Patrol”, April 30, 1997, p. 15 (merits file, volume II, annex 7 offered by the State for planning the exercise of “reconstruction of the facts”, folio 1022). See also, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Informe Final, 2003, volume VII, chapter 2.66, Extrajudicial executions at the residence of the Japanese ambassador (1997), p. 725 (evidence file, volume 1 annex 1 to the case submission brief, folio 11), and ruling by the Third Special Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Lima, October 15, 2012 (evidence file, volume XX, annexed to the representatives’ observations on the State’s preliminary objections, folio 13532). 158 Cf. List of patients hospitalized at the Central Military Hospital, April 23, 1997 (evidence file, volume II, annex 13 to the case submission brief, folios 706 to 707); list of commando personnel deceased and wounded in Operation Chavín de Huántar (evidence file, volume XXIV, helpful evidence, folio 16878); Truth and Reconciliation Commission,, Informe Final, 2003, Volume VII, chapter 2.66, Extrajudicial executions at the residence of the Japanese ambassador (1997), p. 725 (evidence file, volume 1 annex 1 to the case submission brief, folio 11), and ruling by the Third Special Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Lima, October 15, 2012 (evidence file, volume XX, annexed to the representatives’ observations on the State’s preliminary objections, folios 13532 to 15533). 159 Cf. Report 01/1st Div FFEE Operation “Chavín de Huántar” (hostage rescue operation) April 30, 1997, p. 10 (evidence file, volume I, annex 2.a to the case submission brief, folio 51), and Annex 02, Report on Operation “Tenaz Patrol”, April 30, 1997, p. 15 (merits file, volume II, annex 7 offered by the State for planning the exercise of “reconstruction of the facts”, folio 1022). 160 Cf. A press report, “MRTA members captured live,” ran in the El Comercio newspaper on December 18, 2000, reporting statements by Hidetaka Ogura (evidence file, volume VIII, annex 9 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 5279). These statements were referenced in a column published in the Spain-based newspaper ABC on December 19, 2000, under the title “Three terrorists executed in the Japanese embassy in Peru” (evidence file, volume VIII, annex 9 to the brief with pleadings, motions and evidence, folio 5280). 161 Cf. Letter from Hidetaka Ogura to the judiciary of Peru, August 20, 2001 (evidence file, volume I, annex 5 to the case submission brief, folios 112 to 113). 162 Cf. Sworn statement by Hidetaka Ogura taken and certified by a public attestor on January 28, 2014 (evidence file, volume XXX, affidavits, folios 20620 to 20624). 163