166. The entire operation lasted 16 minutes. Additional time was needed to evacuate the
wounded, gather and move the hostages, search the resident and quench a fire that had
ignited during the operation, so that the total action took approximately 33 minutes.164
F. Actions subsequent to the operation
167. When the rescue operation was finished, President Fujimori Fujimori visited the site. 165
Military authorities, members of the SIN and officers appointed by the Supreme Council of
Military Justice (supra para. 158) initiated follow-up actions to the operation. 166 Wounded
hostages and commandos were taken to the Central Military Hospital. 167 The bodies of
commandos Juan Alfonso Valer Sandoval and Raúl Gustavo Jiménez Chávez, who had died in
the operation, and the body of Judge Carlos Ernesto Giusti Acuña, who died after being
evacuated, were autopsied that night, April 22, 1997.168
168. The same day, April 22, 1997, the special military judge identified as C-501 and the
special military prosecutor identified as C-222-C went to the ambassador’s residence but were
unable to visit the entire facility “for reasons of security, as it was known that certain strategic
spots in the [r]esidence had been mined, [which] was a threat to the safety of the intervening
personnel; it was therefore decided that the procedure of identifying and removing the bodies
of the [MRTA guerrillas] [would] take place the following day.”169
169. The next day, the special military judge and the special military prosecutor returned to
the site and instructed a group from the explosives deactivation unit of the National Police of
Peru to detect and deactivate explosives170 and ordered that the bodies of the MRTA members
Cf. Report 01/1st Div FFEE Operation “Chavín de Huántar” (hostage rescue operation) April 30, 1997, p. 17
(evidence file, volume I, annex 2.a to the case submission brief, folio 58). See also: 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 13425 and 13531).
164
Cf. Report 01/1st Div FFEE Operation “Chavín de Huántar” (hostage rescue operation) April 30, 1997, p. 17
(evidence file, volume I, annex 2.a to the case submission brief, folio 58); police operation report in compliance with
Operation Chavín de Huántar, April 22, 1997 (evidence file, volume II, annex 15 to the case submission brief, folio
730), and statement by Morihisa Aoki at the site of the Peruvian embassy in Tokyo, Japan, June 18, 2012 (evidence
file, volume XVIII, annex 18 to the State’s answering brief, folio 11876).
165
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), and Annex 02, Report on Operation “Tenaz
Patrol”, April 30, 1997, p. 19 (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 I, annex 1 to the case submission brief, folio 11).
166
Cf. List of patients hospitalized at the Central Military Hospital on April 23, 1997 (evidence file, volume II,
annex 13 to the case submission brief, folios 706 to 707).
167
Cf. Autopsy report 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 report 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),
and autopsy report 97-1969 of Carlos Ernesto Giusti Acuña, April 22, 1997 (evidence file, volume II, annex 14 to the
case submission brief, folios 720 to 723).
168
Record of intervention by law enforcement under Plan of Operation Chavín de Huántar, April 22, 1997
(evidence file, volume II, annex 15 to the case submission brief, folio 730).
169
Cf. 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 13535 to
13540).
170