On October 1, 1973, the following individuals were killed by Ejército personnel:

-Mauricio CEA ITURRIETA, 33 years old, President of the Peasant Union of the Fundo La Rinconada de Chena, and

-Roberto AVILA MARQUEZ, 59 years old, evangelical pastor, worker at the Maestranza San Bernardo of the railways, a militant of the Partido Comunista, and father of the councilman of that same party for San Bernardo.

The former was detained in front of witnesses by a military patrol at the Fundo where he worked on September 27. From there, he was taken to the house that served as the Partido Comunista headquarters in San Bernardo, where they detained Roberto Avila, who was its owner. Subsequently, both were taken to the Cerro Chena detention center.

Later, the SENDET informed their families in writing that they had died at Cerro Chena on October 1, 1973, without stating the cause of death. Despite this acknowledgment, the bodies of both men were never released to their families, and to this date, it remains unknown where they were buried.

The described facts, the death of the victims within a prisoner camp without justification, allow this Commission to reach the conviction that Mauricio Cea and Roberto Avila were victims of human rights violations, having been executed by state agents without any form of trial.