28 When a helicopter arrived, the members of the paramilitary group said the passenger was Carlos Castaño. The passenger of the helicopter went to the Police Inspectorate and spoke to those who were there, including someone they called “...” and a soldier known as “Rambo.” “Junior” was also called Mauricio. Among the approximately 200 men who raided El Aro, there were those known as “Cobra,” “Pescado” and “El Tigre.” The members of the paramilitary group could be seen with members of the Army in Puerto Valdivia, including with “Rambo,” who was dark-skinned and very tall. “Rambo” had come to El Aro with some soldiers a week before the massacre and was subsequently seen in Puerto Valdivia. When they had murdered several of the villagers, the paramilitary group set fire to homes, stores and surrounding farms on the following Thursday and Friday. On the Saturday, the paramilitary forces left the village after they had set fire to it. El Aro “was totaled.” The civilians buried the dead. Those killed during this paramilitary incursion included: Guillermo Andrés Mendoza Posso, Nelson Palacio, Marco Aurelio Areiza, Wilmar Restrepo Torres, Darío Martínez, Luis Modesto Múnera, Alberto Correa, Dora Luz Areiza, Favio Zuleta, Omar Ortiz, Omar Iván Gutiérrez, Otoniel Tejada Jaramillo and Rosa Barrera. The paramilitary commander obliged some residents of El Aro to herd livestock, bury the dead and carry everything that the group ordered. Those forced to herd livestock included: Omar Alfredo Torres Jaramillo, Libardo Carvajal, Román Salazar, Tomás Monsalve, Omar Iván Gutiérrez, Nobeires Antonio Jiménez, Milciades Crespo, Eulicio García, Ricardo Barrera, Rodrigo Alberto Mendoza, Gilberto Lopera, Francisco Osvaldo Pino Posada, Eduardo Rúa, someone known as Pipe, and others. There were a total of “17 herdsmen.” The paramilitary forces threatened to kill the herdsmen if they tried to escape. The paramilitary group ordered the herdsmen to gather the livestock from several different places, including the Montebello, Manzanares, La Floresta, La Planta and La María farms, near Puerto Valdivia. These farms had between 900 and 1,200 head of livestock between them. They ordered the people to close their stores and to remain inside their homes while they carried off the livestock. The Army officer known as “Rambo” was with the paramilitary group when they took the livestock from Puerto Valdivia. In El Aro, near Bellavista, a troop of men wearing Army uniforms took a fairly large herd of cattle. From the Monday to the following Sunday, the herdsmen remained taking care of the livestock. On the Saturday, they were in El Llano, gathering livestock from all the farms. On the Monday, the members of the paramilitary group spoke to the soldiers in the La Planta farm. The paramilitary group sent the soldiers a cow to eat. In the El Catorce farm, the paramilitary group separated 12 of the best animals for the soldiers. They reached the El Pescado farm and put the livestock into 15 to 20 trucks which they drove off towards the coast. The Army was stationed two blocks from where they were putting the livestock into trucks on the El Pescado farm “yet they did nothing.” A member of the paramilitary group informed the herdsmen that they should go home and that three days later they should go down to La Caucana where they would receive payment for the mules and the cattle. Three days later the herdsmen went to this place, but the paramilitary group told them to return a week later for the payment. They returned a week later, but they were not paid and their livestock