32 121 23 displaced communities were horded, and thereafter they stayed in two lodges built with the support 122 of international agencies. 147. On March 20, 1997, the stadium held 320 families (1,150 individuals of whom 549 were children) and every day between three and five families were arriving with a average of 12 members in each one. 148. The living conditions in the displacement camps were difficult and throughout February 1999, there were already some three hundred and thirty displaced persons in conditions of extreme 123 overcrowding and exposed to the elements. The majority of the displaced were sleeping on the ground 124 and then in beds one beside the other in a large open space inside the Stadium, with no privacy. The 125 food assistance provided by the Government (25,000 every two weeks) was insufficient. Despite Government promises, the shelters had no gas for cooking and the water was insufficient for the number 126 of people. In November 1997, aid was officially suspended for 75 families due to lack of resources. Disease and danger of an epidemic increased, especially among the children who in some cases showed 127 128 signs of advanced malnutrition, diarrhea, vomiting and skin rashes due to the water provided. The 129 displaced lacked access to basic health services, food, housing, education and hygiene. …continuation 120 Cf. Annex 13. U.N. ECOSOC Specific groups and individuals: Mass exoduses and displaced persons. Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons submitted in accordance with Commission resolution 1999/47. Add. Profiles in displacement: follow-up mission to Colombia. E/CN.4/2000/83/Add.1, 11 January 2000. par. 35. At: http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/6d5358107a11e85a802568ac003ea6b6?Opendocument. 121 Inter alia: Villa Hermosa - La Raya, San Higinio, Barranquillita, San José de La Balsa, Bocachica, Teguerré, Bocas del Limón, Bogotá, Puerto Berlín, Varsovia, Balsagira, Bijao Cacarica, La Virginia, Quebrada Bonita, Quebrada del Medio. Annex 51. Colombian Military Forces, National Army, XVII Brigade, Report on the Situation of the Displaced, May 7, 1997. Annex 17 of the petitioners’ allegations on the merits received on March 10, 2008. 122 "In November 1999, around 52 families were living in the Stadium, 56 in Lodging No.1 or "Santo Ecce Homo', 22 in Lodging No.2 or "Madre Laura", and around 200 in the peripheral outskirts of Turbo" and that the majority stayed in Turbo for approximately three years. Cf. Annex 2. Ombudsman’s Office. Ombudsman’s Resolution No. 025 - On the Massive Human Rights Violations and Forced Displacement in the Bajo Atrato Region of Chocó, October 2002. Annex to the initial petition of June 1, 2004. Cf. Annex 1. Constitutional Court, Judgment T-955/2003 of October 17, 2003, p. 3. Annex 15 to the petitioners’ allegations on the merits received on March 10, 2008. Cf. Annex 27. Amnesty International. Colombia. Return to Hope: the Displaced Communities of Urabá and Medio Atrato, June 2000. At: http://www.amnesty.org/es/library/info/AMR23/023/2000/es. See also Annexes 8 and 8 A. Statement of Marco Antonio Cuesta Mosquera and Margarita Bergara Serrana before the Special Commission of the UDH and DIH on December 11, 2002. Annexes 12 and 14 of the petitioners’ allegations on the merits received on March 10, 2008. 123 IACHR visit to the dwellings of the Turbo Stadium in the Apartadó municipality. Annex 15. IACHR. Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Colombia. OEA/Ser.L/V/II.102. Doc. 9 rev. 1, February 26, 1999. Ch. VI, paras. 45 and 46. At: http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Colom99en/table%20of%20contents.htm. Letter of the Displaced Peasant Communities of Riosucio – Chocó to the Administrative Directorate of Human Rights of March 20, 1997. Annex 13 to the petitioners’ brief of March 10, 2008. 124 See photo in: Annex 3. CAVIDA. We are part of the land of this Land: Recollections of a Civilian Resistance, Cacarica, 2002, p. 159. Annex 1 of the petitioners’ allegations on the merits received on March 10, 2008. Annex 15. IACHR. Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Colombia. OEA/Ser.L/V/II.102. Doc. 9 rev. 1, February 26, 1999. Ch. VI, para. 46. At: http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Colom99en/table%20of%20contents.htm. 125 Cf. Annex 13. U.N. ECOSOC Specific groups and individuals: Mass exoduses and displaced persons. Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons submitted in accordance with Commission resolution 1999/47. Add. Profiles in displacement: follow-up mission to Colombia. E/CN.4/2000/83/Add.1, 11 January 2000. At: http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/6d5358107a11e85a802568ac003ea6b6?Opendocument. 126 Annex 15. IACHR. Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Colombia. OEA/Ser.L/V/II.102. Doc. 9 rev. 1, February 26, 1999. Cap. VI, para. 46. At: http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Colom99en/table%20of%20contents.htm. 127 Annex 15. IACHR. Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Colombia. OEA/Ser.L/V/II.102. Doc. 9 rev. 1, February 26, 1999. Cap. VI, para. 46. At: http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Colom99en/table%20of%20contents.htm. 128 Annex 4. Letter of the Displaced Peasant Communities of Riosucio – Chocó to the Administrative Directorate of Human Rights of March 20, 1997. Annex 13 to the petitioners’ brief of March 10, 2008. 129 Cf. Annex 14. U.N. Report of the UNHCHR of the Colombia Office, to the 54th Period of Sessions of the Commission for Human Rights, E/CN.4/1998/16, of March 9, 1998, paras.101 and 187. At: http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1998.16.En?Opendocument. Cf. Annex 13. U.N. ECOSOC Specific groups and individuals: Mass exoduses and displaced persons. Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons submitted in accordance with Commission resolution 1999/47. Addendum. Profiles in displacement: follow-up Continues…