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116. On July 11, 1991, Mr. Viviano Hilario Mancha, the father and grandfather of the missing Ramón
Hilario Morán and Héctor Hilario Guillén, came across a dog with a bloodstained muzzle at the entrance to the
Misteriosa mine in the community of Huachocolpa. Accordingly, he looked into the mine entrance where he saw
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the half buried body of his grandson, six-year-old Héctor Hilario Guillén, together with other bodies that he was
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unable to recognize. Mr. Viviano Hilario Mancha Stated that at the entrance to the mine he saw two bundles of
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dynamite, so, thinking that they were going to explode, he left the spot and reported the find the following day,
July 12, 1991, to the Office of the Huancavelica Provincial Prosecutor and Huancavelica Examining Magistrate’s
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Court. That same day, July 12, 1991, the Directive Council of Santa Barbara campesino community requested the
Huancavelica Mixed Provincial Prosecutor's Office to carry out the removal of the 14 bodies of the disappeared
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persons.
117. The procedure for the removal of the bodies, set for July 14, 1991, could not be carried out because
the group of villagers that went to assist the magistrate’s court was stopped and prevented from reaching the
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mine by soldiers at an abandoned house near the mine, who kept them there from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
According to the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, two of the villagers who were stopped
testified that at approximately 3:30 p.m. they heard an explosion “caused by the fact that the soldiers were
dynamiting the entrance to the shaft to erase the traces of the massacre and then threw the human remains into a
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very deep ravine.”
118. Having returned from Acobamba and being unable to find his son, on July 15, 1991, Alejandro
Huamaní Robles, the father of Elihoref Huamaní Vergara, filed a complaint with the Office of the Huancavelica
Provincial Prosecutor for Crime Prevention, in which he alleged the detention of Elihoref Huamaní Vergara by 15
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members of the Army on July 4, 1991, and that he did not know of his whereabouts ever since. He reiterated the
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complaint on July 18, 1991 to the Office of the Huancavelica Senior Superior Court Prosecutor. On July 23, 1991,
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Appendix 10. Record of the Statement of Viviano Hilario Mancha to the Office of the Special Attorney of the
Ombudsman on July 23, 1991. Appendix 46 to the petitioners’ brief of February 20, 1992.
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Appendix 8. Written communication of November 13, 1991, from CEAPAZ to the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Appendix 27 to the petitioners’ brief of February 20, 1992; Appendix 1. Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
of Peru. Volume VII. Chapter 2: Cases Investigated by the CVR 2.50. The extrajudicial executions in Santa Barbara; The discovery
of the bodies.
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Appendix 10. Record of the Statement of Viviano Hilario Mancha to the Office of the Special Attorney of the
Ombudsman on July 23, 1991. Appendix 46 to the petitioners’ brief of February 20, 1992.
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Appendix 8. Written communication of November 13, 1991, from CEAPAZ to the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Appendix 27 to the petitioners’ brief of February 20, 1992; Appendix 10. Official letter No. 020-CCSB-91 of July 12, 1991, sent by
the elders of Santa Barbara campesino community to the Huancavelica Mixed Provincial Prosecutor's Office. Appendix 20 to the
petitioners’ brief of February 20, 1992; Appendix 1. Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru. Volume
VII. Chapter 2: Cases Investigated by the CVR 2.50. The extrajudicial executions in Santa Barbara; The discovery of the bodies.
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Appendix 10. Official letter No. 020-CCSB-91 of July 12, 1991, sent by the elders of Santa Barbara campesino
community to the Huancavelica Mixed Provincial Prosecutor's Office, Appendix 20 to the petitioners’ brief of February 20, 1992
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Appendix 1. Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru. Volume VII. Chapter 2: Cases
Investigated by the CVR 2.50. The Extrajudicial Executions in Santa Barbara, Erasing the Traces of the Massacre; Appendix 8.
Written communication of November 13, 1991, from CEAPAZ to the Office of the Prosecutor General. Appendix 27 to the
petitioners’ brief of February 20, 1992.
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Appendix 1. Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru. Volume VII. Chapter 2: Cases
Investigated by the CVR 2.50. The Extrajudicial Executions in Santa Barbara, Erasing the Traces of the Massacre.
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Appendix 6. Record of the complaint presented by Alejandro Huamaní Robles on July 15, 1991, to the Office of the
Huancavelica Special Prosecutor for Crime Prevention. Appendix 14 to the petitioners’ brief of February 20, 1991.
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Appendix 5. Complaint presented by Alejandro Huamaní Robles on July 18, 1991, to the Office of the Huancavelica
Senior Superior Court Prosecutor. Appendix 22 to the petitioners’ brief of February 20, 1992.