the exception of one of the charges, of which the Director and the Secretary General were acquitted.397 Investigation in the disciplinary jurisdiction No. 48718-2000 against Rito Alejo del Rio Rojas 189. In 2000, the Public Prosecution Service opened a disciplinary investigation (file No. 15548718-2002) against del Río Rojas as a result of the denunciations filed by the Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz. This referred to the alleged connections between the 17th Brigade and the paramilitary groups, the attacks that occurred during Operation Genesis, and also the murders, disappearance and forced displacement of the communities belonging to the municipality of Rio Sucio, district of San José de Apartadó and Turbo, during the first half of 1997.398 190. On January 27, 2003, in this investigation, it was decided to declare res judicata with regard to the humiliation and mistreatment of some members of the negotiating committee for the return of the displaced families to their place of origin, of which Mr. del Río had been accused, because this had already been assessed in investigation No. 001-14956 and archived.399 191. Furthermore, the prescription of the disciplinary case was declared in relation to the supposed responsibility of Rito Alejo del Río Rojas in the indiscriminate bombing of the inhabitants of Riosucio, Chocó, that violated the principles of distinction and proportionality to the detriment of the civilian population that was not involved in the conflict, because the legal time frame of five years from the date of the facts in 1997 had expired. 400 I.4. Judicial actions filed based on the forced displacement 192. In 1997 at least 13 applications for amparo were filed before courts of the Medellin, Turbo, Riosucio, and Bogota judicial circuits401 owing to the forced displacement of the Cacarica communities. These applications sought protection of the rights not to be displaced, to life, equality, ethnic diversity, peace, housing, social security, food, and the rights of the child, owing to the displacement and the precarious and inhuman subsistence conditions. In addition, the re-establishment of the situation before the displacement was claimed, in appropriate 397 Cf. Judgment of the Disciplinary Chamber, Public Prosecution Service. August 22, 2003 (evidence file, folio 4316). See also: Report of the State of Colombia in MC 70/99. August 12, 2003 (evidence file, folio 2246). The conducts investigated stemmed from the failure to protect the environment in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Riosucio (Chocó); irregularities in the processing of the punitive proceedings opened for the illegal logging; irregularities in the procedures to grant authorization to the black communities of the Cacarica to exploit the forest; obstruction of the actions of the Public Prosecution Service in cases; overstepping authority by granting punitive powers to private individuals, and different irregularities associated with the foregoing. Nine, five and two charges were brought against the Director General, Secretary General and Deputy Director, respectively; all the sentences were confirmed, except one for the Director and Secretary of which they were acquitted (judgment of the Disciplinary Chamber, Public Prosecution Service. August 22, 2003. Evidence file, folio 4316). 398 Cf. Public Prosecution Service. Proceedings 155-48718-2000 (evidence file, folio 46256). 399 Cf. Public Prosecution Service. Proceedings 155-48718-2000 (evidence file, folio 46258). 400 Cf. Public Prosecution Service. Proceedings 155-48718-2000 (evidence file, folios 46262 and 46263). 401 Cf. Applications for amparo filed by Rosalba Córdoba Rengifo, Pascual Ávila Carmona, Pedro Manuel Pérez Florez against the President of the Republic in May 1997 (evidence file, folios 1099 to 1137); Application for amparo filed by Hermenegilda Mosquera Murillo against the President of the Republic (evidence file, folios 1139 to 1148); First instance ruling on amparo of the Turbo Civil Court of May 29, 1997, for eight applicants (evidence file, folios 1474 to 1481); and Cf. Complaint on non-compliance with rulings on applications for amparo against the President of the Republic filed by Antonio René Córdoba, William Quejada Mosquera, Nora María Mosquera, Rosalba Córdoba Rengifo, Pascual Ávila Carmona, Jesús Arcilo Hurtado Quinto, Pedro Manuel Pérez Flores, Leovigildo Quinto Mosquera, Luis Emiro Quinto, Lourdes del Carmen Ortiz, Guillermo Vergara Serrano and J.A.Q. before the Civil Circuit Judge of Turbo, Antioquia on August 12,1997 (evidence file, folios 2272 to 2277). 70