happened.”180 Both the ACCU members and Major Salomón told the leaders of the Afrodescendant communities that they had to evacuate and go to Turbo, because there everything would be coordinated, and the leaders returned to their communities. 181 According to the testimony of the community leaders, they went to talk to the armed agents and had to pass through three security cordons: the first set up by the ACCU, the second by soldiers from the 17th Brigade, and a third consisting of members of the Self-Defense Forces and the 17th Brigade.182 In addition, some of the evidence provided indicates that the execution of “Operation Genesis” was simultaneous,183 in “collaboration with,”184 and coordinated with the action of the “Chocó Bloc” paramilitary group.185 106. However, the State has presented a second version, according to which, during Operation Genesis, the Armed Forces only attacked seven of the eight objectives named above (supra para. 101), which were located in the Salaquí area.186 On this basis, it indicated that the distance between the Cacarica river basin (where the paramilitary were and where Marino López Mena was murdered) and the Salaquí River, “is approximately 40 kilometers of virgin forest, with numerous geographical faults (including water courses, mountains, thick vegetation, swamps and flooding) [and that] it would require approximately six days for men carrying weapons and equipment to cover this distance.”187 Thus, the State maintains that the Armed Forces never entered the Cacarica river basin,188 because the Commander gave the order not to 180 Cf. Testimony of J.B.V.P., before the Prosecutor General’s Office, National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit of December 19, 2002 (evidence file, folio 620). See also, the statements of M.A.C.M. and C.M.R. The Prosecutor General’s Office Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit of December 11, 2002 (evidence file, folio 631 and 612). 181 Cf. Testimony of J.A.Q. before the Prosecutor General’s Office, Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit of October 8, 2002 (evidence file, folios 1527 and 1528) and voluntary confession made by Fredy Rendón en Collective voluntary confessions of the candidates of the Elmer Cárdenas Bloc concerning Operation Genesis – Cacarica before the Fiscalia 48 Justice and Peace Unit, Delegada, MedellíNo. (evidence file, folio 18412). 182 Cf. Testimony of J.A.Q., the Prosecutor General’s Office, National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit of October 8, 2002 (evidence file, folios 1527 and 17537). 183 Cf. Eighth Criminal Court of the Bogota Special Circuit, file 2009-063, defendant Rito Alejo del Río, judgment of August 23, 2012 (evidence file, folio 14808). See also: The Prosecutor General’s Office, document “Operation Cacarica” (evidence file, folios 19255 to 19259), The Prosecutor General’s Office, Powerpoint presentation “Operation Cacarica” (evidence file, folio 19253), and The Prosecutor General’s Office, Natonal Justice and Peace Prosecutors Unit, presentation: organizational structure Operation Cacarica (evidence file, folio 45234). 184 Cf. Eighth Criminal Court of the Bogota Special Circuit, file 2009-063, defendant Rito Alejo del Río, judgment of August 23, 2012 (evidence file, folio 14807). 185 In this regard, the former paramilitary leader Fredy Rendón Herrera, alias “El Alemán” testified before the Prosecutor General that it should be “clarified that [they] operated in that area until around 1997 without the presence of the Colombian Army until an operation was conducted in the area included between the Los Katíos National Park and the Truandó River where the Army conducted an operation that at the time was called Operation Genesis and that troops beloning to the Chocó Bloc who were on the Cacarica River took part, in coordination with some middle-level commanders in the area, in the rescue of some foreigners and the recovery of other deceased foreigners; this was done in conjunction with the Army […].” Statement made by Fredy Rendón Herrera before the Prosecutor General’s Office, Unit of Prosecutors delegated to the Superior Court of the Judicial District of Medellín on August 15, 2008. See also: Voluntary confession Fredy Rendón Herrera, March 13, 2009 (minute 10:45:10) (evidence file, folio 18377); Voluntary confession of Fredy Rendón Herrera, March 13, 2009 (minute 01:00 of video No. 5); Fredy Rendón Herrera, statements of the candidates of the Elmer Cárdenas Bloc concerning Operation Genesis – Cacarica, Medellín, April 29, 2010 (evidence file, folio 17914). 186 Cf. Colombian Military Forces, National Army, 17th Brigade, Reports of March 6 and 20, 1997 (evidence file, folios 5529, 5530, 5532 to 5534). 187 Cf. Affidavit dated January 31, 2013, prepared by María Paulina Leguizamón Zarate, expert witness proposed by the State (evidence file, folios 15450 and 15451). Similarly, see Testimony of Luis Emilio Cardozo Santamaría, expert witness proposed by the State before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, during the public hearing on February 12, 2013. 188 Cf. Affidavit dated January 31, 2013, prepared by María Paulina Leguizamón Zarate, expert witness proposed by the State (evidence file, 15450 to 15456) 41