33 5.2 Bocas del Atrato 149. Those who displaced towards Bocas del Atrato left in the afternoon of February 24, 1997, and arrived at Bocas del Atrato the following morning. 23 families (70 individuals) settled in a village schoolroom or with local families, where they stayed for approximately three years before returning to 130 their lands. 5.3 Panama 150. Around three hundred people displaced on foot to Panama, were lost in the jungle. In this regard, one displaced person stated: 131 and some boys and girls I found many children walking alone through the jungle, lost, with no one guiding them. Some nephews were walking there too, I recognized them, picked them up, and put them to sleep. The last boatload was leaving and I had ten children ages one to five, naked, without clothes. I went back to the Bijao hamlet. I asked a boatload leaving if they could take me or at least the children. It is very hard to walk in the mountains with a child suffering from hunger, with so many mosquitoes; they took pity on us and took the children only, since there was no room for me and I 132 stayed in Bijao. 151. This group erected makeshift camps in the Darién area of Panama, but shortly afterwards the displaced were told that they could not remain in this neighboring country. According to the displaced farmers, the petitions that they filed before the Colombian Government for their return were dismissed, 133 and they were forced to return to Colombia without the guarantees they sought. Some were taken initially to Apartadó, in the Antioquia Department, to a shelter where they were packed together without 134 135 adequate health facilities. An important group was taken by force by the State of Colombia to Bahía Cupica in the Department of Chocó and settled in the "El Cacique" farmstead. Despite this, the State did not provide them with adequate humanitarian aid such as sufficient food and only rarely were they given meat to cook. They only had access to one doctor for all the displaced and there were no medicines for 136 serious illnesses. …continuation mission to Colombia. E/CN.4/2000/83/Add.1, 11 January 2000, paras. 91, 92 and http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/6d5358107a11e85a802568ac003ea6b6?Opendocument. 187. At: 130 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. 131 Annex 8. Statement of Marco Antonio Cuesta Mosquera before the Special Commission of the UDH and DIH of December 11, 2002. Annex 12 of the petitioners’ allegations on the merits received on March 10, 2008. Cf. Annex 13. U.N. ECOSOC Specific groups and individuals: Mass exoduses and displaced persons. Report of the Representative of the SecretaryGeneral on internally displaced persons submitted in accordance with Commission resolution 1999/47. Addendum. Profiles in displacement: follow-up mission to Colombia. E/CN.4/2000/83/Add.1, 11 January 2000. para. 36. At: http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/6d5358107a11e85a802568ac003ea6b6?Opendocument. 132 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. 133 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. 51. At: http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Colom99en/table%20of%20contents.htm. 134 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, paras. 51 and 52. At: http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Colom99en/table%20of%20contents.htm. 135 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. para. 36. At: http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/6d5358107a11e85a802568ac003ea6b6?Opendocument. See also Annex 52. U.S. Committee for Refugees, Colombia’s silent crisis: One million displaced by violence, Washington D.C., March 1998, pp.16 and 17. 136 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. 53. At: http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Colom99en/table%20of%20contents.htm. Cf. Annex 2. Continues…