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those circumstances, negotiations developed between the penitentiary
authorities in coordination with competent judicial authorities and rioters to
know their claims; 20
h.
the President of the Republic of Peru summoned the Council of
Ministers to an extraordinary session on June 18, 1986, also attended the
Joint Command of the Armed Forces. This meeting was held within the
juridical framework pointed out by Executive Order No. 012-86-IN, dated
June 2, 1986, which "extende[d] the Emergency State... in the Province of
Lima and Constitutional Province of Callao [and decreed that] in those
provinces internal order should be controlled by the Armed Forces. In this
meeting it was decided that after the intervention of the Peace Commission to
obtain rioters' surrender, the Joint Command of the Armed Forces should be
ordered to subdue the uprisings. 21
i.
on June 19, 1986, the President of the Republic issued Supreme Order
No. 006-86-JUS, wherein it declared the above mentioned prisons as
"restricted military zone" and formally, they remained under the jurisdiction
of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, while emergency state extended
in compliance with Supreme Order No. 012-86-IN. This standard forbade the
entrance of civilian and judicial authorities to El Frontón, giving to the Navy of
Peru absolute control of the prison. Said order was published on the next day
in the official newspaper, on June 20, 1986, with the explicit indication of
being in force since its issuing (on June 19, 1986) even though military
operations performed on June 18 and 19 were over and the riot was
controlled; 22
j.
the Navy and the Republican Guard, under the Joint Command, were
entrusted with subduing the riots at El Frontón. Military operations started at
3:00 on June 19. The Special Operation Task Force (FOES) carried out the
demolition of the Blue Pavilion causing great number of deaths and wounded
prisoners. The Blue Pavilion was an isolated area of the prison, where the
20
cf. Majority opinion by the Investigating Commission of the Congress of Peru about the events on
June 18 and 19, 1986, at Lurigancho, El Frontón, and Santa Bárbara prisons, Lima, in December, 1987,
pp. 29, 110, 112, 115, 116, 121, 124 to 132; and Minority opinion by the Investigating Commission of the
National Congress of Peru about the events on June 18 and 19, 1986, at Lurigancho, El Frontón, and
Santa Bárbara prisons. Lima in December, 1987, pp. 21, 131, 132, 133, 135, 136, 142 to 153.
21
cf. Majority opinion by the Investigating Commission of Peru, about the events on June 18 and
19, 1986, at Lurigancho, El Frontón, and Santa Bárbara. Lima, December, 1987, pp. 54-55, 228 and from
253 to 257; Minority opinion by the Investigating Commission of Peru, regarding the events on June 18
and 19, 1986, at Lurigancho, El Frontón, and Santa Bárbara prisons. Lima, December, 1987, pp. 13, 22,
23, 28, 50 from Minorities' Observations and 158 and 257; and Executive Order 012-86-JUS of June 2,
1986.
22
cf. Supreme Order No. 006-86-JUS of June 19, 1986; Supreme Order 012-86-IN of June 2, 1986;
Majority opinion by the Investigating Commission of the Congress of Peru, about the events on June 18
and 19, 1986, at Lurigancho, El Frontón, and Santa Bárbara prisons. Lima, December, 1987, pp. 232 and
234; Minority opinion by the Investigating Commission of the Congress of Peru, regarding the events on
June 18 and 19, 1986, at Lurigancho, El Frontón, and Santa Bárbara prisons, Lima, December, 1987, pp.
47 and 52 from the Minorities' Observations and 250, 251, 257 and 270; testimony of Ricardo Aurelio
Chumbes Paz, and studies by Guillermo Tamayo Pinto Bazurco, Enrique Bernardo Cangahuala submitted
to the Court in Neira Alegría et al Case.