A/HRC/45/CRP.11 Transfer and Enforced Disappearance 1190. After 18 October 2016, soldiers at the El Café base told family members that the men were no longer there.2109 They explained that the detainees had been transferred that day to Fort Guaicamacaure, Chaguaramal town in Pedro Gual municipality (1.5 hours by car from El Café).2110 The soldiers claimed that the criminal background checking system in El Café was malfunctioning, and the transfer was necessary for this reason. 2111 1191. The Mission was informed that a transfer to Fort Guaicamacuare did not take place.2112 Detainees were instead transferred at the end of October from El Café to another military base in Alfarería Bell, where they stayed for around a week before being executed.2113 Another source with qualified knowledge of the operation confirmed that the men were transferred from El Café to Alfarería Bell, and that the transfer took place approximately 15 days into the operation. This source revealed that the commander of the ZODI Miranda ordered the transfer to prevent Public Prosecutor’s Office representatives and family members from locating the detainees.2114 1192. Family members were unaware of their loved one’s whereabouts and continued to search for them.2115 According to one relative, “His mother-in-law and I went to Sotillo, to Curiepe, to the airport […] to a command here in La Trinidad. We went to Chaguaramal to different places and nothing, no, we never found him”.2116 A detainee’s uncle said, “We went to Chaguaramal, we went to other places, nothing, nothing, no answers, nobody, not even the Lieutenant Colonel gave us an answer, he did not even show up”. 2117 A victim’s sister said that, upon arriving in Fort Chaguaramal “an official told us they were there to bring him food and clothes. The next day […] they said they had already been transferred. We asked to where and they told us to Higuerote heliport. [There] they told us that they were not there”.2118 1193. One of the detainees later released explained that he had been forced to sign a document saying he had not been beaten and had been provided with food, well treated, and his rights had not been violated.2119 This coincided with information received from a reliable source with direct knowledge of the operation. He informed the Mission that the commander of ZODI Miranda had instructed that detainees be forced to sign and fingerprint declarations 2109 2110 2111 2112 2113 2114 2115 2116 2117 2118 2119 234 Delsa Solórzano, En vivo con los familiares de las víctimas de la MASACRE de Barlovento, minute 33:13, available at: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ZkJznbXPaWJv. See also Efecto Cocuyo, Obreros, estudiantes, agricultores: ¿Quiénes eran las víctimas de la masacre de Barlovento?, 16 December 2016, available at: https://efectococuyo.com/la-humanidad/obreros-estudiantes-agricultores-quieneseran-las-victimas-de-la-masacre-de-barlovento/. Public Prosecutor’s Office, Barlovento: informe sobre víctimas y hechos ocurridos en Barlovento: masacre a 12 personas, February 2017, p. 11, available at: https://lortegadiaz.com/wpcontent/uploads/2017/12/barlovento-ultima-version4-16-05-2017.pdf. See also RunRun.es, ¿En qué se parecen las masacres de Barlovento y Tumeremo?, 2 December 2016, available at: https://runrun.es/investigacion/289036/en-que-se-parecen-las-masacres-de-barlovento-y-tumeremo/. Efecto Cocuyo, Carlos Marchena, uno de los fallecidos en la masacre de Barlovento, 13 December 2016, minute 0:48, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgxbQbY2Phs. Mission Interview C4FF09 in May 2020. See also Public Prosecutor’s Office, Barlovento: informe sobre víctimas y hechos ocurridos en Barlovento: masacre a 12 personas, February 2017, p. 11, available at: https://lortegadiaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/barlovento-ultima-version4-16-052017.pdf Document C4FF08 on file with the Mission. Document C4FF07 on file with the Mission. Unidad Venezuela, Familiares de ajusticiados en Masacre de Barlovento ofrecen desgarradores testimonios en la morgue, minute 1:12, 28 November 2016, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g80XRbopwU. Digital.Net, Hablan los familiares de las víctimas de la “Masacre de Barlovento”, minute 1:39, 2 December 2016, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ejKkchS1NA. Delsa Solórzano, En vivo con los familiares de las víctimas de la MASACRE de Barlovento, from minute 33:30, available at: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ZkJznbXPaWJv. Ibid., minute 34:45. Gabriel Bastidas en Vivo Play, Testimonio de sobreviviente de la masacre de Barlovento, minute 1:06, 30 November 2016, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J6p-pz-_dM.