52 96.62 Despite the actions carried out by certain government agencies to attenuate the problems of the displaced population, and important progress attained, it has not been possible to comprehensively protect the rights of the displaced population, primarily due to the precarious institutional capacity to implement State policies and the insufficient allocation of resources.64 96.63 The massacre in Mapiripán, combined, inter alia, with intimidation by the paramilitary, with what they experienced during the days of the massacre, with the damage suffered by the families and the possibility of further damage, for having to testify or already having done so, caused the internal displacement of complete families from Mapiripán. Some of the displaced persons did not live in Mapiripán itself at the time of the facts, but they were likewise forcefully displaced as a consequence of those events.65 96.64 Some of the inhabitants displaced from Mapiripán who have been identified are Jesús Antonio Morales, Nery Alfonso Ortiz, Ana Betulia Alfonso, Luz Helena Molina, Ana Tulia Agudelo, Norberto Cortés, Margarita Franco Ramírez, Leonardo Iván Cortés Novoa, Mariela Contreras Cruz, Rusbel Asdrúbal Martínez Contreras, Maryuri and Gustavo Caicedo Contreras, Zuli Herrera Contreras, Nory Giraldo de Jaramillo, Carmen Johanna Jaramillo, Marina Sanmiguel Duarte, Nadia Mariana, Yinda Adriana, Johanna Marina, Roland Andrés and Ronald Mayiber, all of them Valencia Sanmiguel, Teresa López de Pinzón, and Luz Mery Pinzón López. Among the above, the following were minors at the time of the facts: Rusbel Asdrúbal Martínez Contreras, Maryuri and Gustavo Caicedo Contreras, and Nadia Mariana, Yinda Adriana, Johanna Marina, Roland Andrés and Ronald Mayiber, all of them Valencia Sanmiguel, and Carmen Johanna Jaramillo Giraldo.66 64 See judgment T-025/04 of January 22, 2004, issued by the Third Appellate Chamber of the Constitutional Court (file with appendixes to the final pleadings submitted by the representatives, volume I, page 5174). 65 See June 18, 2003 conviction, issued by the Second Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Bogotá (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 4, page 143b); and August 19, 1997 report on the facts in Mapiripán, signed by Major General Agustín Ardila Uribe (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 26, page 358); statement by Mariela Contreras Cruz, rendered before the Office of the Attorney General on October 17, 2002 (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 35, page 3526); statement by Leonardo Iván Cortés Novoa, rendered before the Office of the Attorney General on August 21, 1997 (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 30, pages 3395 to 3403); August 5, 1997 reply regarding the facts in Mapiripán, signed by Brigadier General Jaime Humberto Uscátegui Ramírez, addressed to the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Villavicencio (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 30, page 375); testimony of Luz Mery Pinzón López, rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on March 7, 2005; statement by Mariela Contreras Cruz, rendered before the Office of the Attorney General on October 17, 2002 (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 35, page 3526); testimony of Mariela Contreras Cruz, Nory Giraldo de Jaramillo, Luz Mery Pinzón López, and Marina Sanmiguel Duarte, rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on March 7, 2005; indictment issued on April 7, 1999 by the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Human Rights Unit (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 27, page 3207 bis); statements rendered as testimony before a notary public (affidavits) by Sara Paola Pinzón López, Yur Mary Herrera Contreras, Nadia Mariana Valencia Sanmiguel, and Carmen Johanna Jaramillo Giraldo on February 4, 2005 (file with statements rendered before or authenticated by a notary public, pages 4521, 4525, 4533, 4536 and 4537 and 4541), and sworn statements rendered by witnesses Maryuri Caicedo Contreras, Yinda Adriana Valencia Sanmiguel, and Johanna Marina Valencia Sanmiguel, and witness Gustavo Caicedo Contreras on February 16, 2005 (file with statements rendered before or authenticated by a notary public, pages 4566, 4569, 4573, 4574, 4564 and 4577). 66 See statement by Mariela Contreras Cruz, rendered before the Office of the Attorney General on October 17, 2002 (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 35, page 3526); testimony of Mariela Contreras Cruz, Nory Giraldo de Jaramillo, Luz Mery Pinzón López, and Marina Sanmiguel Duarte, rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on March 7,

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