81 With regard to Álvaro Tovar Muñoz and his next of kin 96.171 Álvaro Tovar Muñoz worked as a butcher.175 96.172 Álvaro Tovar Muñoz was married to Beatriz Rojas Vargas. Their daughter was Yulieth Lorena Tovar Rojas. His father was Ernesto Tovar Loaiza and his adoptive mother was María Teresa Pérez Carrillo. His siblings were Ernesto, Fatty, Ligia and Edelmira Tovar Muñoz, and Sandra Milena Tovar Pérez, Adriana Tovar Pérez.176 96.173 On February 1, 2005, the next of kin of Álvaro Tovar Muñoz signed a Total Conciliation Agreement with the Ministry of Defense, which was approved by the Administrative Law Court of Meta (supra paras. 97.130 and 97.131). With regard to the damage caused to the next of kin of the alleged victims and the costs and expenses 96.174 The inhabitants of Mapiripán were subjected to conditions of terror between July 15 and 20, 1997 and the partial impunity in this case has caused and continues to cause suffering to the next of kin of the alleged victims: several of them witnessed how the paramilitary took away their next of kin, they heard their cries for help while they were tortured, they learned that the bodies were thrown into the river and, in two cases, they found their tortured bodies (supra paras. 96.53, 96.54 and 96.55). Also, after the facts of July 1997, most of the population of Mapiripán left the town (supra para. 96.63 and 96.64). All this has created a state of deep fear among the next of kin of the victims, which has not allowed them to return to Mapiripán, to file complaints before the authorities regarding the facts, and to participate in the domestic proceedings –only one of the next of kin is a civil party in the criminal proceeding (supra para. 96.103) and the next of kin of only four alleged victims have begun administrative-law proceedings regarding the facts (supra paras. 96.127 to 96.129) -. Said situation has also led to the identification of no more than twenty individuals as executed or missing persons, despite the approximate number of victims of the massacre. 96.175 The next of kin of the alleged victims have suffered pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage directly resulting from the facts; this has affected their physical and psychological health, has had an impact on their social and work relations, has altered their family dynamics and, in some cases, has endangered the lives and personal safety of some of their members.177 175 See application filed on October 24, 1998 by Beatriz Rojas Vargas et al., before the Administrative Law Court of Meta (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 62, page 1188). 176 See application filed on October 24, 1998 by Beatriz Rojas Vargas et al., before the Administrative Law Court of Meta (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 62, pages 1187 and 1188), and February 2005 ruling by the Administrative Tribunal of Meta (file with evidence tendered by the State, page 4771). 177 See testimony of Luz Mery Pinzón, Nory Giraldo de Jaramillo, Mariela Contreras Cruz, Marina Sanmiguel Duarte and Viviana Barrera Cruz rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on March 7, 2005; statements rendered as testimony before a notary public (affidavit) by María Teresa, Esther and Sara Paola Pinzón López, Carmen Johanna Jaramillo Giraldo, Yur Mary and Zuli Herrera Contreras, Nadia Mariana Valencia Sanmiguel on February 4, 2005 (file with statements rendered before or authenticated by a notary public); sworn statements rendered by witnesses Maryuri Caicedo Contreras, Yinda Adriana Valencia Sanmiguel and Johanna Marina Valencia Sanmiguel, and witnesses

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