31
Colomoncagua, Honduras.37 The following day he was detained at their house at
approximately 9 p.m., without a court order, by troops of the Tenth Infantry
Battalion of Marcala, La Paz, commanded by second lieutenant Ángel Belisario
Hernández González. Juan José Vijil, who raised Juan Humberto as his father, as a
collaborator of the Army, accompanied them to the military post in Colomoncagua;38
there he was informed by the Mayor, on July 10, 1992, that his son’s detention was
due to complaints of theft of money made by Clemente Sánchez
Márquez, that he bore an AK 47 rifle, in addition to alleged ties with the guerrilla
forces of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN);39
37
Cf. Statement by Juan José Vijil Hernández before the Inter-Institutional Human Rights
Committee of the Republic of Honduras on July 28, 1992 in a file at the Secretariat of the Court entitled
“Caso Juan Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo I,” Annex 9 of the application, pp. 146 to 147; Statement by Juan José
Vijil Hernández before the Justice of the Peace in Colomoncagua on March 9, 1995 in a file at the
Secretariat of the Court entitled “Caso Juan Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo II,” Annex 1 of the answer to the
application, p. 680 to 681; and “Desaparecidos” Newsletter, published by COFADEH, volume 2, Nº 20,
June-July 1992, Tegucigalpa, Honduras in a file at the Secretariat of the Court entitled; “Anexos
correspondientes al escrito de observaciones de los representantes de la presunta víctima y sus familiares
ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos,” Annex 6, pp. 19-21.
38
Accepted by the State in its final written pleadings in a file at the Secretariat of the Court entitled
“Caso Juan Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo IV,” pp. 1221 to 1222 and in the final oral pleadings in a file at the
Secretariat of the Court entitled “Caso Juan Sánchez. Transcripción de Audiencia Pública,” p. 224. Cf.
Statement by Juan José Vijil Hernández before the Inter-Institutional Human Rights Committee of the
Republic of Honduras on July 28, 1992, in a file at the Secretariat of the Court entitled: “Caso Juan
Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo I,” Annex 9 of the application, pp. 146 to 147; Statement by Juan José Vijil
Hernández before the Justice of the Peace in Colomoncagua on March 9, 1995 in a file at the Secretariat of
the Court entitled “Caso Juan Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo II,” Annex 1 of the answer to the application, pp. 680
to 681; Commitment order against Ángel Belisario Hernández by the Second Court of First Instance of the
Department of Intibucá on October 13, 1998 in a file at the Secretariat of the Court entitled “Caso Juan
Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo II,” Annex 1 of the answer to the application, p. 717; and “Desaparecidos”
Newsletter, published by COFADEH, volume 2, Nº 20, June-July 1992, Tegucigalpa, Honduras in a file at
the Secretariat of the Court entitled; “Anexos correspondientes al escrito de observaciones de los
representantes de la presunta víctima y sus familiares ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos
Humanos,” Annex 6, pp. 19 to 21.
39
Cf. Statement by Luis Alonso Discua Elvir rendered before the Inter-American Court on March 4,
2003; Statement by Enmanuel Flores Mejía rendered before the Inter-American Court on March 4, 2003;
Statement by second lieutenant Angel Belisario Hernández González rendered before COFADEH on July
28, 1992, in a file at the Secretariat of the Court entitled: “Anexos a la demanda presentados por la
Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos,” Annex 3 of the application, pp. 132-133; Statement by
The Justice of the Peace of Colomoncagua, Carlos Manuel Delcid Coello, rendered before COFADEH on July
28, 1992, in a file at the Secretariat of the Court entitled: “Caso Juan Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo I,” Annex 4
of the application, pp. 134 to 135; Letter by General Luis Alonso Discua Elvir to the Attorney General,
Leonardo Matute Murillo on August 3, 1992 in a file at the Secretariat of the Court entitled “Caso Juan
Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo I,” Annex 5 of the application, p. 136 to 137; Testimony of Clemente Sánchez
before the Justice of the Peace in Colomoncagua on August 3, 1992 (copy authenticated by notary public
on March 24, 1993), in a file at the Secretariat of the Court entitled: “Caso Juan Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo I,”
Annex 7 of the application, pp. 139 to 140; Habeas Corpus proceeding record drawn up by the serving
judge, Rigoberto Osorio Bautista appointed by the Appellate Court of Comayagua on July 28, 1992 in a
file at the Secretariat of the Court entitled: “Caso Juan Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo I,” Annex 8 of the
application, pp. 144 to 145; Statement by Juan José Vijil Hernández before the Inter-Institutional Human
Rights Committee of the Republic of Honduras on July 28, 1992, in a file at the Secretariat of the Court
entitled “Caso Juan Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo I,” Annex 9 of the application, pp. 146 to 147; Statement by
Rosa Delia Sánchez before the Justice of the Peace in Colomoncagua on March 8, 1993 in a file at the
Secretariat of the Court entitled “Caso Juan Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo II,” Annex 1 of the answer to the
application, pp. 666 to 667; Statement by Purificación Hernández Alvarado before the Justice of the Peace
in Colomoncagua on February 21, 1995 in a file at the Secretariat of the Court entitled “Caso Juan
Sánchez. Fondo. Tomo II,” Annex 1 of the answer to the application, p. 670; Statement by Vicente
Hernández Pineda before the Justice of the Peace in Colomoncagua on February 21, 1995 in a file at the
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