Deputy Rosauro Martínez (RN) will face a crucial week regarding the imminent request for the stripping of his parliamentary immunity, which leaders and parliamentarians of the Communist Party will present to the Court of Appeals of Valdivia.

The goal is for the deputy from Ñuble to testify before the justice system regarding the accusations against him for the deaths of three MIR militants on September 20, 1981, in the Remeco sector, Panguipulli.

Although some electronic media outlets have released details of the investigation being conducted by the visiting judge of the Valdivian Court, Emma Díaz, which would establish that Deputy Rosauro Martínez had involvement in the crime, Communist lawyer Eduardo Contreras Mella will provide details regarding the case file in Chillán.

Invited by the local Communist Party, Contreras held a meeting with leaders prior to traveling to Concepción. As Boris Calderón noted, "he will dedicate part of his time to sharing with local media the case file that supports the request to strip the immunity of RN parliamentarian Rosauro Martínez, which will be filed in the coming days at the Court of Appeals of Valdivia by deputies Hugo Gutiérrez and Sergio Aguiló."

The Case File

There are various testimonies from former military personnel, Carabineros, and even members of the CNI, the military regime's intelligence service, that coincide in asserting that the parliamentarian, then an Army captain, led the patrol in charge of the operation that ended in the deaths of Próspero del Carmen Guzmán Soto, Patricio Alejandro Calfuquín Henríquez, and José Eugenio Monsalve Sandoval, who were hiding in a house.

It was the owner of that house, the godmother of one of the occupants, who alerted the Carabineros of the Neltume station, who in turn informed the Valdivia Regiment, which led to the arrival of the military patrol.

In their statements to the justice system, the former uniformed officers who participated in the operation that day agree that Martínez was the officer in charge of the patrol.

One of them is the then-Carabinero Alfonso Rosas, of the Neltume Station, who declared that he and Captain Espinoza were the first to arrive at the place where the guerrillas were, and they waited at the site until reinforcements arrived. The procedure, he asserts, "was instructed by Captain Martínez; he gave the orders."

Former commando Sergio Aliro Cárdenas Navarro also testified before the justice system in Valdivia, stating that "in that year, by superior order, we went as a company under the command of Captain Rosauro Martínez to the Neltume area," and noted that "I must clarify that we were called by Martínez to support him, since he intended to enter the house, but he could not do so because his rifle jammed, and we all had to retreat.

Immediately, they began to fire at us from inside the house, and we returned fire; that is to say: we all fired."

Another Army commando at that time, Eduardo Alberto Inostroza Reyes, stated that "my patrol was composed of 17 people under the command of Captain Rosauro Martínez."

Carlos Leonardo Ruiz Iturra, a member of the CNI's Anti-Terrorist Unit, declared to the police that they received an order via radio to support a confrontation between the commando company, an Army officer, Carabineros, and the people who were inside the house.

Once at the scene, the confrontation had already concluded, and he even asserted that they were denied access to the site. He points out that it was said that those who participated in the confrontation were the 8th Commando Company, who were the first to make contact with the individuals, but also personnel from the Army and Carabineros."

Source: La Discusión, May 22, 2013