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of the Interior and the Government Procurator to initiate the necessary administrative and
ministerial proceedings. Among other things the recommendation called for an inquiry to
determine who was responsible for the events of 10 April 1996 and, if necessary, their
punishment as well as a preliminary investigation concerning the Director-General for
Preliminary Investigations attached to the Government Procurator’s Office, the Government
Procurator’s representative in Jojutla, the representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in
Tlaltizapán and the staff of the Public Procurator’s Office who were associated with the previous
flawed investigation. It also recommended that administrative proceedings should be instituted
against the General Coordinator of State Public Security, the forensic physician of the State
Procurator General’s Department implicated in the case and the Chief of Staff of the Office for
the General Coordination of State Public Security. It recommended the investigation of the
Director-General of the State Preventive Police and its Deputy-Director (Operations) for the
Oriente region, and appropriate compensation for the family members and victims. The
Commission’s recommendation was fully implemented by 17 September 1998 according to its
President.
92.
Estanislao Martínez Santiago, arrested on 1 September 1996 near Copalito, State of
Oaxaca, by members of the State Judicial Police, was allegedly transferred to San Mateo Peña
and tortured. According to the information provided by the Government no previous reference
to this case was found by the National Human Rights Commission or by the Human Rights
Commission of the State of Oaxaca.
93.
Francisco Valencia Valencia, arrested in El Manzanal, State of Oaxaca,
on 2 September 1996 was allegedly taken to San Miguel Zuchitepec and then to La Crucesita
and tortured by judicial police officers. The Government stated that the inquiry opened by the
National Human Rights Commission had been brought to an end on 31 January 1997 by judicial
decision during the trial proceedings.
94.
Evaristo Peralta Martínez was allegedly arrested and tortured by members of the State
Judicial Police on 4 September 1996 in Miahuatlán, State of Oaxaca. The Government stated
that neither the National Human Rights Commission nor the Human Rights Commission of the
State of Oaxaca had found any trace of a complaint in connection with this matter.
95.
Amadeo Valencia Juárez and Roberto Antonio Juárez were allegedly arrested and
tortured by members of the Preventive Police, the State Judicial Police, the Federal Judicial
Police and the Army on 6 and 7 September 1996 in the State of Oaxaca. The investigation
launched by the National Human Rights Commission on 10 July 1997 had covered both cases.
The National Human Rights Commission requested information from the authorities allegedly
responsible as well as from the Office for Preventive Measures and Social Rehabilitation of the
Ministry of the Interior. The National Commission found nothing in this information or in the
statements obtained by the Commission’s inspectors from individuals, that confirmed the various
irregularities reported in the complaint - the period of detention having been in accordance with
the arrest warrants issued by the court of combined jurisdiction of first instance of Santa María
Huatulco, municipality of Pochutla, Oaxaca, as well as by the fifth district court of that
municipality. On this basis, the National Commission found that the bodies concerned had acted
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