long years the Amnesty Laws were in force, which impeded investigating and prosecuting the persons responsible for all human rights violations committed during the armed conflict, including forced disappearances. In addition to those laws and as will be detailed in the next section, many factors have contributed to impunity for the facts of the instant case; for the purposes of this element of forced disappearance, one can conclude that in practice they have operated so as to perpetrate the concealment and uncertainty as regards the fate or whereabouts of Wilfredo Terrones Silva, Teresa Díaz Aparicio, Santiago Antezana Cueto, Néstor Rojas Medina, and Cory Clodolia Tenicela Tello. 2.2.3 Conclusion about the existence of forced disappearance 188. In view of all that has been said to this point, the Commission considers that there is sufficient information to characterize what happened to Wilfredo Terrones Silva, Teresa Díaz Aparicio, Santiago Antezana Cueto, Néstor Rojas Medina, and Cory Clodolia Tenicela Tello as forced disappearances perpetrated by state agents, which continue to this date, considering that the fate or whereabouts of the victims has not been established. Accordingly, the Commission concludes that the Peruvian State violated and continues to violate, to their detriment, the rights to recognition of juridical personality, life, humane treatment, and personal liberty enshrined in Articles 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the American Convention, in relation to the obligations established at Article 1(1) of the same instrument. In addition, the Commission concludes that the State violated Article I(a) of the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons.170 170 As regards the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons, the Commission observes that the State of Peru deposited its instrument of ratification on February 13, 2002. Therefore, mindful of the characteristics indicated above of the offense of forced disappearance of persons, the State is responsible for violating the rights established in that Convention as of the date of ratification of that treaty and with respect to those cases of forced disappearance that persist over time.