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Barrera.90 Her family displaced to other towns as a result of the events and returned
to the region three years later.91
125(77) Also on October 30, 1997, the paramilitary group murdered Dora Luz Areiza
Arroyave, aged 21 years, who had been accused of being a member of the guerrilla.
At the time of her death, she lived with her parents, Luis Ufrán Areiza Posso and Jael
Esther Arroyave Posso, and she had three siblings, Noelia Estelia, Freidon Esteban
and Robinson Argiro, all with the last names Areiza Arroyave.92 Dora Luz Areiza
Arroyave’s family displaced as a result of the events, living in very precarious
conditions, and are afraid to return to Ituango.93
125(78) Owing to the state of decomposition of some of the dead, the inhabitants of
El Aro buried them, before any State authority had seen them.
125(79) Before leaving El Aro, the paramilitary group destroyed and set fire to most
of the houses in the urban center, leaving only a chapel and eight homes.
iii)
Assistance given to the next of kin of the alleged victims who were
executed
125(80) The following families of alleged victims executed during the events of El
Aro received life insurance from the Social Solidarity Network:
a)
Gladis Elena Jaramillo Cano received 7,500,000 Colombian pesos on
August 28, 2000, as an insurance payment for the death of her husband,
Nelson de Jesús Palacio Cárdenas;
b)
Libardo Mendoza and María Leticia Posso received 5,000,000
Colombian pesos each in 1999, as an insurance payment for the death of
their son, Guillermo Andrés Mendoza Posso; and
c)
Carlina Tobón received 5,000,000 Colombian pesos as an insurance
payment for the death of her husband, Marco Aurelio Areiza Osorio. Also, the
following children of Marco Aurelio Areiza Osorio received 1,000,000
Colombian pesos: Miriam Lucía, Lilian Amparo, Yonny Aurelio, Gabriela
Patricia and Mario Alberto, all of them with the last names Areiza Tobón.
90
Cf. birth certificate of Elvia Rosa Areiza Barrera (File of attachments to the requests and
arguments brief, Appendix E2, folio 3079).
91
Cf. statement made by Jaime Adonai Quintero Tobón for the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights on November 5, 2005 (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, tome I,
folio 3173).
92
Cf. identity card of Luis Ufrán Areiza Posso and Jael Esther Arroyave Posso, and also birth
certificates of Freidon Esteban Areiza Arroyave, Nohelia Estelia Areiza Arroyave, and Robinson Argiro
Areiza Arroyave (file of attachments to the application, tome I, Appendix B8, folios 302 to 332).
93
Cf. statement made by María Resfa Posso de Areiza for the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights on August 17, 2005 (file of affidavits and the respective observations, folio 5094).
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