12 kidnap and execute their victims in the name of the “security of the State.” The Universitas itself was also attacked by the repression forces. The time for light searching was unduly taken by the State shadows heralds. 40. A departing Judge of the Inter-American Court, -who thanks God never missed one single session and never excused himself from participating in any deliberation of the Court during his 12 years of service rendered as Incumbent Judge- is fully entitled to set forth, in this Separate Opinion, one of his many reminiscences regarding the arguments on this case. Little after the Fujimori regime I visited Peru as President of the Inter-American Court, for a series of events; at that time, when receiving the degree of Emeritus Professor granted by another University which suffered during the dark days of the said regime18, in my speech of September 13, 2001, at the President´s Office of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, among other things, I pointed out that "After the times of shadow, those of light have come. But nobody can guarantee us -and this with relation to any country - that the shadows will not return. Should this happen, the only certain thing is that the light would emerge again, - as in the sequence of night and day, or day and night. In the same way that shadows appear when the light fades, the first rays of light arise from the last remains of darkness. The clear-dark tension, of progress mixed with regression, is inherent to human condition, as the ancient Greek (always so contemporary) remarked centuries ago with total lucidity in one of their greatest legacies to the evolution of human thought. International human rights instruments have decisively contributed to wake up human conscience for the need to protect individuals in any and all circumstances. Events in Peru during the last months have revealed a true reencounter of Peru with its best tradition and legal thoughts (...). When this happens, we can say that the international human rights system has effectively reached the bases of the national society. Nothing of what happened during the last months in this Latin-American country, so rich in legal culture and tradition, which today I am honored to visit, would have been possible without the admirable mobilization of the Peruvian civil society, and its impact on the public institutions. This shows the importance of the international instances of protection of human rights: they represent the last hope for those who had lost trust and faith in justice, mainly those defenseless, oppressed and forgotten. There could hardly be, for a jusinternationalist, such a gratifying experience as the one I am living in these four days of visit to Peru. (...) This ceremony has great symbolic importance to me. I come from the Academy, to which I shall continue belonging. I belong to the University, the Universitas, which, by definition, has a universal vocation. As jusinternationalist, I uphold the principles of mankind reason above State reason.” (...).19 41. Two years later, in a co generic ceremony in another Peruvian University, on November 18, 2003, presided over by the President of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Dr. S. Lerner Febres), also President of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación Nacional (CVR) of Peru, I outlined, in my speech at that time 18 V.g., the military occupation of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in May, 1992. And to this, other acts of violence are added, such as, for instance, the case of the disappeared students of the Universidad Nacional del Centro in Huancayo; cf. "Huancayo y Cantuta: Dónde Están los Desaparecidos?", 4 Ideele Magazine (November, 1992) No. 44, pp. 13-14. Also, the crime of La Cantuta was attributed – as notorious and public – to a reprisal perpetrated by the Grupo Colina of extermination of senderistas, by the Tarata street attack; cf. U. Jara, Ojo por Ojo - La Verdadera Historia del Grupo Colina, op. cit. supra No. (1), p. 177. 19 A.A. Cançado Trindade, "Speech by the President of the Inter-American Human Rights Court at the Celebrations during the 450th Anniversary of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Appointed as Emeritus Professor),” 58 Revista de Derecho y Ciencia Política de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos - Lima (2001) nrs. 1-2, pp. 729-730 and 733, paras. 21-24 and 33.