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and request the State “to investigate the facts that led to the present measures so
as to compile facts leading to the identification of those responsible and their
punishment.”
11.
The brief of the Commission of October 8, 2000, whereby it informed the
Court about a number of threats made by Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (“United
self-defense Groups of Colombia,” hereinafter “AUC”) against members of
ASFADDES, as well as the alleged disappearance, on October 6, 2000, of two
members of the Medellín branch office of ASFADDES, Mr. Ángel Quinteros and
Claudia Patricia Monsalve. On the basis of these events, the Commission requested
the Court to expand the Provisional measures adopted in this case, to protect the life
and integrity of several members of ASFADDES. In particular, the Commission
requested the Court to:
1.
Adopt urgently the measures necessary to establish the whereabouts of Ángel
Quintero and Claudia Patricia Monsalve; investigate their disappearance; and prosecute
and punish those responsible[.]
[2.]
Adopt the necessary measures to protect the life and personal integrity of Ángel
Quintero, Claudia Patricia Monsalve, Marta Soto, Silvia Quintero, Gloria Herney-Galíndez,
Gladys Ávila, and Rocío Bautista, and to coordinate such measures with the petitioners
and the persons protected [.]
[3.]
Implement the technical protection measures already coordinated within the
framework of the Follow-up Committee, at the offices of ASFADDES[.]
[4.]
Centralize the investigation of the facts denounced in the National Human
Rights Unit of the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Nation, towards the
identification, prosecution and punishment of those responsible[.]
12.
The Order of the President of October 11, 2000, in the operative part of which
he decided to:
1.
Request the State of Colombia to adopt, forthwith, all the measures necessary
to protect the life and personal integrity of Ángel Quintero, Claudia Patricia Monsalve,
Marta Soto, Silvia Quintero, Gloria Herney-Galíndez, Gladys Ávila, and Rocío Bautista.
2.
Request the State of Colombia to investigate the facts denounced by the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights; determine the whereabouts of Mr. Ángel
Quintero and Claudia Patricia Monsalve; and identify and punish those responsible for
the cited events.
3.
Request the State of Colombia to adopt, forthwith, all the measures necessary
to guarantee that all offices of the Association of Relatives of Detainees-Disappeared
Persons of Colombia can continue functioning without danger to the life or personal
integrity of those who work there.
4.
Request the State of Colombia to submit to the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights a first report on the measures adopted, within 15 days as of the date of
notification of this order; and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to
submit its observations on said report within 15 days of receiving this document.
[…]
13.
The report of the State of October 27, 2000, whereby it indicated:
a)
that an investigation is being processed before the Third Prosecutorial
Department attached to the Unit Delegate to the Penal Courts of the
Barrancabermeja Circuit, under number 20452, “for alleged threats against
Ms. Rocío Campos.”
Appearing as victims in the proceedings of said
investigation are Luz Elsia Almanza, Hilda Rosario Jiménez, Ramón Rangel,