34 6. Events Subsequent to the Displacements 152. Subsequent to the events of February 1997, the displaced continued to be the targets of 137 human rights violations in the settlements. As from March 12, 1997, the petitioners informed a number of State entities of the situation. They issued constancias with public statements explaining what was happening in Urabá of Antioquia; they lodged requests for information with the then President of the Republic, his Counsel for Human Rights and the Ministries of the Interior, Defense, Justice and Foreign 138 Relations; the Prosecutor General; the Procurator General; and the Ombudsman. 153. The IACHR undertook an in loco visit to Colombia between December 1 and 8, 1997 139 during which it visited the stadium and the dwellings in Turbo. Based on the information received during and after its visit, on December 17, 1997, the Commission issued precautionary measures to 140 protect the life and personal integrity of these displaced persons. For example, members of paramilitary groups turned up from time to time at the dwellings. On December 11, 1997, two armed paramilitaries entered the stadium, looking for a displaced man, and on December 14, another 141 paramilitary was seen inspecting a dwelling. 154. Paramilitary raids, food blockades, confiscations, violence, deaths, and disappearances continued in the settlements. The displaced were in a situation of risk and their living conditions were 142 cramped and lacking in basic services. In view of this, they wrote a request to the authorities with five 143 items including truth, justice and moral reparation. …continuation 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. 137 "The displaced persons settled in the Bahía Cupica encampments, Department of Chocó have been the target of death threats and acts of harassment by paramilitary groups." Annex 14. 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. 100 and 187. At: http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1998.16.En?Opendocument. 138 Annex 53. Urgent Action sent by the Inter-Congregational Commission of Justice and Peace on the situation in the Urabá region to the President of the Republic, Ernesto Samper Pizano, Interior Ministry, Foreign Ministry, Ministry for Justice and Law, FGN, PGN, Ombudsman, and Presidential Council for Human Rights of March 12, 1997. Annex to the initial petition of June 1, 2004. 139 "The Commission observed during its visit that the violence in Colombia has been the main cause of internal forced displacement for a large number of people. In its trip to Urabá, for example, the Commission had the opportunity of visiting in Turbo the encampment of displaced persons originating in Riosucio. In these locations, the Commission noted that the majority of the displaced are women and children living in inhuman conditions. They complain that the fled from the normal places of residence as a result of the acts and threats of violence committed against them by the Army, acting in collaboration with paramilitary forces". Annex 54. IACHR. Press Release No. 20/97, para. 34. See. http://www.cidh.org/Comunicados/Spanish/1997/Comunicados%201421.htm#20 140 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. 47. At: http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Colom99en/table%20of%20contents.htm. Annex 55. IACHR Annual Report, 1997, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.98 Doc. 6, February 17, 1998, Ch. III.2.A, section on precautionary measures granted in respect to the Republic of Colombia. 141 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. 47. At: http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Colom99en/table%20of%20contents.htm. 142 Annex 26. Tutela filed by Hermenegilda Mosquera Murillo before the Criminal Judge, Medellin Circuit. Annex 10 to the petitioners’ brief of March 10, 2008. Annex 46. Letter of the Displaced Peasant Communities of Riosucio- Chocó to Dr. Patricia Luna, of the Administrative Human Rights Department, dated March 20, 1997. Annex 13 to the petitioners’ brief dated March 10, 2008. Annex 13 to the petitioners’ brief of March 10, 2008. See also Annex 37. CAVIDA: We were always dreaming: Recollections of boys and girls lives who returned to Cacarica, July 2001. Códice LTDA Publishers. p.28. Annex to petitioners’ brief of March 23, 2009. 143 Our List of Demands. Mimeograph, December 1997. On April 20, 1998, in a meeting with President Ernesto Samper Pizano, a list of demands was handed over for a dignified return. The last point of the proposed dialogue encompassed the moral reparations which covered the investigation, punishing those responsible for the displacement and the offenses committed against the Cacarica communities; the publication of a book; the making of a documentary video; the production of a radial series with the communities' history and the construction of three monuments. Petitioners’ allegations on the merits received on March 10, 2008. Continues…