189. The testimony provided indicates that the Colomoncagua refugees returned to El Salvador starting at the beginning of 1989 as a result of the actions of international agencies, and many of them were resettled in the community of Segundo Montes. Antonia Guevara Díaz recounted that they remained in Colomoncagua until February 1989, returning to the village of San Luis with the help of the Red Cross, to then return to Cerro Pando, “not having returned in previous years because of the internal armed conflict, the insecurity that this represented for [her] and [her] family because they were accused of being part of the guerrilla at that time; [she declares] that they returned to the place from where they had been forcibly displaced owing to the guarantees provided by the International Red Cross and because life in the refugee camp was difficult, as they survived with what they received from this organization, and did not have the means to grow their own food.”269 Juan Bautista Márquez Argueta recounted that, owing to the measures taken by the humanitarian agencies, UNHCR, and other institutions, in February 1990, all of those who were in the Colomoncagua refugee camps were repatriated, and returned to the department of Morazán, to the place known today as the city of Segundo Montes.” Regarding his personal situation, he indicated that he had “tried to go and see the lands that he owned and that he had abandoned during the massacre, was able to identify them, and little by little started restoring them in order to sow crops on them, and [he] left the place where [he] had been taken; this was about a year after arriving there, and was able to build a little house with better materials; nevertheless, today [he has] problems because [he does] not have documents that safeguard [his] property, because the deeds were private and were lost during the massacre, and there was nothing left of what had been [his] house, not even the rubble.”270 María Erlinda Amaya Márquez remembered that “[t]he year of the massacre, all the crops were lost because they had to flee and leave them behind. After the massacre everything in [her] life changed; nowadays [she does] not even have a beehive; [she] had to start production in her vegetable garden all over again in order to survive. [… She] went to Colomoncagua […,] and remained there until after the war when the time came to [return. She] did not want to return; at one time [she] wanted to return because [she] thought that [she] could find [her] children, but it was useless because they were already dead.”271 190. Some internally displaced persons have returned to their places of origin on their own account, while others settled in the Segundo Montes community, generally when the armed conflict ended. In this regard, expert witness Yáñez de la Cruz explained that the victims who had returned did so “starting in 1991 [to] 1992, when the war was over, and they go back to a place that is no longer the same place; even if they go back to the place where they used to live, [now] it is charred; everyone says this is no longer the place, and they have to go somewhere else.”272 María del Rosario López Sánchez stated that “they started repopulating La Joya in 1995, some people returned and others live in San Luis, in Segundo Montes.” 273 Juan Antonio Pereira Vigil narrated that, in 1992, he returned to El Mozote on his own account; there he rented while he rebuilt his house and worked on his own land in the village of Los Toriles; “being near his own land he felt better because he was where he belonged […].” He stated that he “longed to return to his land, but since it was a war zone it was not possible to live there; 269 Affidavit provided by Antonia Guevara Díaz on April 1, 2012 (evidence file, tome XVII, affidavits, folio 10288). 270 Affidavit provided by Juan Bautista Márquez Argueta on April 1, 2012 (evidence file, tome XVII, affidavits, folios 10277 to 10278), and Witness statement made by Juan Bautista Márquez before the Second First Instance Court of San Francisco Gotera on October 30, 1990 (evidence file, tome III, annex 23 to the submission of the case, folios 1657 and 1659). 271 Sworn statement made by María Erlinda Amaya Márquez before the Oficina de Tutela Legal del Arzobispado on June 25, 2011 (evidence file, tome VIII, annex 3 to the pleadings and motions brief, folio 5590). 272 Expert opinion provided by María Sol Yáñez de la Cruz before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 23, 2012. 273 Sworn statement made by María del Rosario López Sánchez before the Oficina de Tutela Legal del Arzobispado on June 19, 2011 (evidence file, tome VIII, annex 3 to the pleadings and motions brief, folios 5522 to 5523). 61