Mamiña Case

According to the official version, at midnight on Monday, July 1, 1986, personnel from the Vehicle Search and Investigation Section (SEBV) of the Carabineros, supported by other police units, carried out a raid on the property at Calle Mamiña No. 150, finding the lifeless bodies of sisters Margarita Eliana and María Paz MARTIN MARTINEZ and the young Isidro SALINAS MARTIN, son of one of them.

It is also reported that the three deceased were members of the FPMR who died by self-inflicted wounds caused by shots fired from a short distance.

However, the autopsy reports state

– On the body of Isidro Salinas, two impacts to the head, one from a long distance and one from a short distance.

– In the case of María Paz Martín, the cause of death was a craniocerebral gunshot wound; the intracranial trajectory followed by the projectile was from right to left, bottom to top, and slightly backward. This was a shot fired with the barrel pressed against the skin.

– In the case of Margarita Eliana Martín, the cause of death was craniocerebral and thoracic trauma from bullets with projectile exit wounds.

The examinations of the weapons found next to the deceased were a Colt .38 caliber revolver in fair working condition and an unmarked D 64 model 9 mm caliber pistol, with the slide jammed and an unspent cartridge in the chamber.

The Commission, considering the evidence gathered, deems the official information to be untrue, as at least two of the alleged suicides presented two bullet impacts and the weapons in their possession were in fair condition.

Therefore, it has reached the conviction that Isidro Salinas and the sisters Margarita Eliana and María Paz Martín did not commit suicide, but were executed by Carabineros personnel, considering their deaths to be human rights violations for which state agents are responsible.