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She learnt of her nephew’s disappearance through the newspaper. She inquired about his
whereabouts but nobody gave her an explanation, they even “denied their attack to the
university.”
When she learnt about the discovery of the common grave, she thought it was a prison or a
house so she believed her nephew was alive. Then, she went to the site and she saw burnt
remains. She felt great grief. She could identify him on seeing “his hair, his nails [and] his
clothes.”
She and her family have been seriously affected by the loss of her nephew. In your heart
you cannot forget what happened. For several months she had to hide the truth from her
brother, Heraclito’s father because “I was afraid to tell him […] as he […] has a heart
condition.”
When he knew about it, he reacted with great sadness.
She spent up his money in expenditures seeking for justice. As a result, she had to close
down his market-stall.
She had bodyguards during three or four months because she feared something could
happen to her, as she had to “continue moving and searching.”
“There is no justice. They always conceal justice [.].Until my death, I will always keep on
searching for the truth.”
She requested the Inter American Court to order the State to “tell them where the remains
are,[…] where the heads are, […] where they keep them.’
c)
Victor Andres Ortiz-Torres, father of Luis Enrique Ortiz-Perea
His son enrolled in the Universidad de La Cantuta (La Cantuta University) with the purpose
of getting his degree and then traveling through Mexico in order to “excel over his studies.”
As student, his son “complained against the excesses of the military within university.”
When he knew about his son’s disappearance he thought that “he would find him sometime,
in some place, battered by the treatment that the military always give people.” Later, he
felt “he had lost him […] and that it would be difficult to find him, as the conduct of the
military officers was already known.”
His family felt unable to speak. It seemed that all the authorities “had received the order to
remain silent.”
They have incurred several expenses during the years of their search. His daughter Gisela
also spent lots of money and she is jobless as she has devoted her life to the search of
justice.
“The military [..] go beyond their authority; they decide over the life and death of people
with the excuse that they are terrorists.” In fact, in the case of La Cantuta “the military
have succeeded in spreading the idea [at domestic level] that all the people that have died
there were terrorists and their families as well.”
His family has been threatened. His daughter Gisela was sent a funeral wreath to APRODEH
saying she was going to die; and his two younger daughters “were approached by two
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