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very hardworking, affectionate and honest. He was always attentive to his parents.
He used to visit them constantly and always took them things they needed. Also,
when the witness had cancer, the alleged victim paid all her medical expenses. Alirio
always wanted his parents to move to the city to live with him so that they would
never suffer hardships.
The witness found out that her son had “disappeared” through her daughter-in-law,
who advised her that she had had no news of him for a week. From then on, the
witness began to despair; she cried, could not sleep, lost her appetite and became
very ill.
The witness could not carry out any investigation or search because she lived in the
countryside and did not have the necessary money. It was Alirio's wife who took
these steps.
The witness asked the Court to order that an investigation should be conducted to
determine what happened and that those responsible for the facts should be
identified and punished; that they should receive reparation for all the damage done
to them; that they should be given “a book or statue” recalling Alirio Chaparro
Murillo, and that the remains of her son should be returned to her so that she could
bury him.
f)
Testimony of Suney Dinora Jauregui Jaimes, sister of the
alleged victim, Luis Hernando Jauregui Jaimes
The witness was 13 years of age at the time of the “disappearance” of her brother,
Luis Hernando. She lived in Pamplona in the house of her parents, Luis María
Jauregui Jauregui and Teresa de Jesús Jaimes Cruz, together with her siblings, Juan
Antonio, Carlos Alberto, Edith Stella, Nubia Esperanza, José Francisco, Lorena del
Pilar and Marcela Elizabeth.
Luis Hernando Jáuregui Jaimes was about 32 years of age when he disappeared; he
had lived alone in Cúcuta for about a year, after separating from his wife, Marleny
Angarita. Luis Hernando traveled constantly to Pamplona, to his parents’ home. He
worked “in whatever he could,” at one time selling chickens, then selling pigs and,
subsequently, selling electrical household goods which he brought from San Antonio
to sell in Medellín. Luis Hernando was “a pillar of the household,” setting an
example to follow, a very hardworking, happy persons, with no bad habits. He was
always attentive to his family; he helped pay for the household expenses, his
siblings' schooling and his parents' medical expenses.
After Luis Hernando's “disappearance,” his father began to drink every day; he
quarreled with his wife, he became bad tempered, he abandoned the home about a
year after the said “disappearance,” and he disassociated himself from his family.
Luis Hernando and his father had been great friends. Luis María Jauregui Jauregui
died in 1996.
When she found out about the events, Luis Hernando's mother cried and screamed;
her sugar level rose significantly, which caused complications and illnesses. After the
events, she had heart problems, became depressed and had to be hospitalized,
because she suffered the onset of a heart attack. When her husband abandoned her,
she had to face the situation alone, supported by her son, Juan Antonio, because her