E/CN.4/1998/38/Add.2 page 6 of the military he was beaten and subjected to other forms of torture, such as being suspended over a cliff and threatened with being dropped if he did not admit the whereabouts of the weapons and attackers. 18. In November 1997, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) sent the Military Procurator recommendation 100/97 concerning the participation of the army in human rights violations in the state of Guerrero. With reference to cases of arbitrary arrest, injury and torture, the Commission concluded: “1. Evidence has been found of acts of arbitrary arrest, and of injuries suffered by the victims, as recorded in the reports by medical experts registered with this national body. 2. This national body considers, in respect of Mr. Juan Leonor Bello, Mr. José Santiago Carranza, Mr. Faustino Martínez Basurto, 2 Mr. Paulino Padilla Rosario and the minor Antonio Padilla Gatica, that such methods were used when they were arrested and received injuries, particularly when they were blindfolded, their hands were tied and they were interrogated under threats and intimidation in order to obtain information about militants of the so-called People's Revolutionary Army. Such incidents may well be considered acts of torture, which should be investigated. 3. In view of the above, although the facts recorded in the reports do not reliably prove the specific responsibility of any public authority or servant, the Armed Forces should in conjunction with the federal and state authorities undertake a full investigation of each of these incidents”. 3 The Commission therefore recommended that the Military Procurator should initiate the appropriate preliminary investigations and, if responsibility was ascertained, bring charges and carry out any orders of arrest which might be issued. 19. The Special Rapporteur also received information concerning many cases of torture in the state of Oaxaca, where the EPR also appeared in 1996 and carried out violent raids, resulting in an increased military presence, the setting up of checkpoints and numerous arrests. In the Loxicha region of Oaxaca, these events coincided with popular demands for improved public services and infrastructure. Incidents took place, as on 25 September 1996 when a major operation was launched in the Loxicha region, in which members of the preventive police, the State Judicial Police, the Federal Judicial Police and the army took part, following an armed raid by the EPR at the end of August. Several persons were arrested in the villages of San Agustín Loxicha and San Francisco Loxicha, including members of the municipal authority. They included Isaías Ambrosio Ambrosio, Manuel Nicandro Ambrosio, José Agustín Luna Valencia and Fortino Enríquez Fernández, Emiliano José Martínez and Luis José Martínez. Also as a result of the EPR raid in late August 1996, a number of persons were arrested in and around the town of Huatulco, including Urbano Ruiz Cruz, Juan Díaz Gómez, Régulo Ramírez Matías, Estanislao Martínez Santiago, Cirilo Ambrosio Antonio, Ricardo Martínez Enríquez and Francisco Valencia Valencia. On 7 November a new joint operation took place similar to