3 g. That on March 12, 1991, an attorney for the government's Human Rights Ombudsman evacuated fifteen members of the family of Diego Perebal-León from Chunimá because the patrol chiefs, who remained at large, continued to threaten relatives of the victims and human rights activitists in the community. 5. The petitioners, pursuant to Article 63(2) of the American Convention, also urge the Commission to request the Court to adopt provisional measures to protect the lives and physical integrity of human rights monitors in Chunimá. The request for provisional measures is based on the following: a. That human rights monitors of CERJ and GAM from the village of Chunimá are exposed to grave and continuos danger. In the last nine months five human rights monitors have been killed and one has been seriously wounded. b. That as result of this violence, fifteen Chunimá residents, CERJ members and their relatives have fled to the CERJ office in Santa Cruz del Quiché, in early March 1991, to take refuge. c. The source of the danger faced by human rights monitors in Chunimá has been the civil patrols, in particular Manuel Perebal-Ajtzalam III and Manuel León-Lares, for whom arrest warrants have been issued but not carried out. (i) On April 17, 1991, the chief of the National Police of Santa Cruz del Quiché visited the CERJ office to see if any of the family members who have taken refuge there —all of them relatives of Diego Perebal-León, who was shot and seriously injured in one of the incidents— would accompany them to Chunimá to help them identify the suspects. The family members declined out of fear. (ii) Nonetheless, on April 26, 1991, the police decided to travel to Chunimá to execute the arrest warrants. Thirty policemen went on the mission, some National Police and some Treasury Police. They located the houses of the suspects, but did not find them at home. On their way out of the village, they were confronted by a very large group of armed patrollers, led by the chiefs Manuel Perebal-Ajtzalam III and Manuel León-Lares, and including patrollers from Chunimá and several other communities. The patrollers detained the police there for two hours, and only let them leave after extracting a promise from the police that they would never come to Chunimá again. (iii) On June 13, 1991, the police again attempted to arrest the suspects in Chunimá. Although they encountered the suspects, they were unable to arrest them, apparently because the suspects alerted other members of the patrols, who joined with them in resisting the arrests. d. Recent incidents against human rights monitors include the following: (i) At about 8:30 p.m., on April 14, 1991, three unidentified men stabbed to death CERJ member Camilo Ajquí-Jimón outside his house in the village of Potrero Viejo, Municipality of Zacualpa, in the department of