12 ii. died; in 2006, not one member of the Kankuamo indigenous community iii. the State has established greater control over the zone and brought about a training program for the Public Force to better enable respect for indigenous customs and their authorities; iv. from 2004 to the present, the State has distributed more than 9,150 million Colombian pesos for the Kankuamo indigenous community, which has allowed for improved infrastructure, health and education within the Reservation; v. the Court should not convert the monitoring mechanism under provisional measures into a discussion about the public policies of every State organ that affects the Kankaumo population; vi. the measures ordered have accomplished their objective. The Court should be satisfied with the contributions made to the Kankuamo population and the different State entities who have worked together to change the situation that first motivated the adoption of provisional measures. Based upon this change, the State requested the Court to lift the provisional measures; vii. in spite of certain aspects that deserve the State’s attention relating to the displaced population, impunity, the betterment of conditions on the Reservation, and the recovery of the ethnic history and culture of the Kankuamo, among other matters, the State considers that this labor can continue under domestic mechanisms of the State and not necessarily under the mechanism of provisional measures, which already served its purpose to aid a situation of extreme gravity and urgency, and viii. provisional measures should have a temporal and exceptional character, which ceases to exist if there are no special and specific circumstances aimed at preserving the rights recognized in the Convention. b) regarding the investigations concerning the events that motivated the adoption of the present provisional measures and with an aim to identify those responsible and, when appropriate, to impose the corresponding sanction, that: i. the National Unit on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law [Unidad Nacional de Derechos Humanos y Derecho Internacional Humanitario] has moved forward 15 investigations, of which 8 are currently in the preliminary stage and 4 are currently in the preliminary hearing stage; 17 suspects are connected to these investigations, of whom 8 are members of the Public Force and others belong to paramilitary groups; ii. in the Ordinary Prosecutor of Valledupar [seccional de Fiscalía de Valledupar] casework currently includes 71 investigations, of which 35 are in the preliminary stage, 8 in the preliminary hearing stage, 3 in the judgment stage and 3 in the sentencing phase. The investigations include members of the guerrilla, members of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, members of the Kankuamo Community and there are also investigations into

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