34 o 24 separate weapons were identified, consistent with at least 24 individual shooters. At least 11 persons fired their weapons within the building and at least 13 fired their 186 weapons outside the building. There is no evidence to support the contention that these victims, almost all young children, were involved in combat or were caught in the crossfire of combat forces. Rather the evidence strongly supports the conclusion that they were the intentional 187 victims of a mass extra-judicial execution. o 179. On January 6, 1993 the judge of the Second Court appointed the forensic anthropologists 188 Charles Lee Cecil and Roger Ediar as technical advisers . On January 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18 189 and 19, 1993, exhumation work continued at site 2, “La Tumba” . On January 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28 190 and 29, 1993, exhumation work began at site 3, “El Pozo” . On March 24, 1993, the judge of the Second 191 Court sent to the Legal Medicine Institute 10 cases of bone remains found at site 2 in El Mozote. 180. The Commission has a document summarizing the meeting of the Tutela Legal with the judge of the Second Court on March 31, 1993. It indicates that the judge sent copies of the file to the Supreme Court of Justice which, according to the judge, “ordered the case to be dismissed (...) in light of the amnesty law recently decreed by the legislative Assembly.” According to that report, the judge of the Second Court declared that he had learned “through a dimwitted ex-Sergeant of the Salvadoran armed forces” that “the El Mozote massacre was an individual decision of Domingo Monterrosa”. The judge refused to name the sergeant, and said that “he did not summon him to give evidence because he did not 192 want to” . 181. On that same day (March 31, 1993) the judge of the Second Court, together with staff of the Legal Medicine Institute withdrew the working materials used during the exhumations of the skeletal remains in the previous months. He did this because he assumed that the work of exhuming victims 193 would be halted because of the amnesty act . When asked about the need to identify and return the remains to their relatives, he said “this nonsense is over with and I don’t want to get involved in any more 194 messes.” However, he then agreed to receive petitions in writing from the relatives. D. The decision on dismissal and application of the General Amnesty Act for Consolidation of Peace 182. On September 27, 1993 the judge of the Second Court issued a final decision of dismissal. He divided the preamble (consideranda) into three sections: (i) corpus delicti; (ii) participation; 195 and (iii) observations. 186 Identification of Firearms at the El Mozote Execution Site. Dr. Douglas D. Scott (Annex D. to the petitioners’ communication of November 11, 2002). 187 Forensic Investigation Report, El Mozote, El Salvador. B. Clyde Snow, Robert H. Kirshner, Douglas D. Scott and John F. Fitzpatrick (Annex D. to the petitioners’ communication of November 11, 2002). 188 Decision of the judge of the Second Court of September 27, 1993 (attached to the communication from the State of October 14, 1993). 189 Ibid. 190 Ibid. 191 Ibid. 192 Internal report of the Tutela Legal of March 27, 1992 (Annex B to the petitioners’ communication of November 11, 193 Ibid. 194 Ibid. 2002). 195 Decision of the judge of the Second Court of September 27, 1993 (attached to the communication from the State of October 14, 1993).