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rejected this information provided by the State, affirming that “unknown families have
arrived and some of them occupy houses previously occupied by those displaced.”
9.
That, seven years after the adoption of provisional measures, the Court does not
have reliable up-to-date information on the number of people who, at the present time,
compose the Peace Community, or about their main settlements; and this information is
essential for the proper implementation of these measures. Consequently, the President
considers that the representative, the Inter-American Commission, and the State must
provide the Court with more information on this point.
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10.
That the representative reported the deaths of Francisco Puerta and Dairo Torres,
both members of the Peace Community, on May 14 and July 13, 2007, respectively.
According to the representative, Francisco Puerta and Dairo Torres were allegedly murdered
by paramilitary forces, at sites where the National Police “generally exercise firm control.
The representative also denounced that, on November 13, 2006, Elidio (Nubar) Tuberquia
received “severe blows to the head” that resulted in “brain death,” and “the circumstances
[…] indicated that the Police were responsible.” In his latest brief with observations, the
representative reported on the death of two young people who lived near the Peace
Community: Alfonso de Jesús Bedoya Florez, a 19-year old peasant, and Héctor Jaime
Orozco Grisales, 26 years of age. The representative did not indicate whether these two
young men were members of the Peace Community.
Furthermore, in his observations on the State’s reports, the representative denounced
alleged threats and harassment against members of the Peace Community (supra fifth
having seen paragraph). Among the acts he reported, the most important were the death
threats allegedly received by Rodrigo Rodríguez, coordinator of the Arenas Altos
Humanitarian Zone; the alleged accusations and death threats against Eduar Lanchero,
sympathizer with and member of the Peace Community; the injuries allegedly caused by
members of the Army to Efrén Espinoza Goéz, a 10-year old boy, member of the Peace
Community, in the village of Arenas Altas; and also the alleged threats purportedly made by
members of a paramilitary group against people living in La Esperanza and Playa Larga on
November 24, 2007 (supra fifth having seen paragraph).
Based on the above, the representative urged the Court to ask the State “under no
circumstance, to entrust the protection of the beneficiaries to the Police, since it is
increasingly evident that they are collaborating with the paramilitary groups.” He also
repeated that “the presence of the police post inside the territory where the Peace
Community lives and works tramples on one of the essential principles of any Peace
Community: that of not being involved with or living alongside any armed protagonist, from
either side.”
11.
That, in its reports (supra fourth having seen paragraph), the State referred, inter
alia, to the deaths of Messrs. Puerta and Torres. Regarding Francisco Puerta, the State
reported that when it learned of the unfortunate event [the Public Prosecutor’s Office
(Procuraduría General)] ordered the competent authorities to deploy all necessary
mechanisms to avoid another tragedy in the region.” It also indicated that the Prosecutor
General’s Office (Fiscalía General) reassigned the Delegate Prosecutor to the judges of the
Specialized Circuit, attached to the National Human Rights Unit in Medellín, to which the
case was consigned, to conduct the investigation into the murder of Francisco Puerto to its
ultimate consequences. Regarding the circumstances of his death, the State reported that