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attention to the rural population displaced owing to the violence, in the context of
their voluntary return to their place of origin or their resettlement in another place,
and adopting measures to prevent this situation.”158
125(109) Despite the actions of some State entities to mitigate the problems of the
displaced and the significant progress achieved, it has not been possible to protect
the rights of the displaced integrally owing, in particular, to the limited institutional
capacity to implement State policies and the allocation of insufficient resources.159
125(110) The massacres that took place in La Granja and El Aro, added, inter alia,
to the fear that similar events could be repeated, the intimidation by the paramilitary
groups, the experiences during the days that the massacres occurred, and the
damage suffered, resulted in the internal displacement of entire families from these
districts.
125(111) Luis Humberto Mendoza Arroyave and Julio Eliver Pérez Areiza, who
appear in the Displaced Persons’ Register, together with their family groups, received
financial assistance from the State, based on their status as displaced persons.160
125(112) The Displaced Persons’ Register kept by the Human Rights Directorate of
the Ministry of the Interior at the time of the facts does not contain complete
information on the population that was displaced between 1996 and 1999.161
125(113) The displaced inhabitants of El Aro and La Granja, who have been
identified in the proceedings before the Court, are described in Appendix IV of this
judgment.
Concerning the damage caused to the next of kin of the alleged victims and
the costs and expenses
125(114) Owing to the context in which the facts of this case occurred, the next of
kin of the alleged victims, as well as the inhabitants of Granja and El Aro who
survived, experienced profound anguish, and also pecuniary damage; in some case,
their physical and mental health was affected, and their social and work relations,
and their family dynamics were altered.
158
Cf. judgment T025 of January 22, 2004, issued by the Third Review Chamber of the
Constitutional Court (file of attachments to the brief answering the application, tome III, Appendix 30, ff.
4363 to 4747hh); Act 37 of 1997 (July 18), “adopting measures to prevent forced displacement; and
Decree 250 of February 7, 2005, “issuing the National Plan for Integral Attention to the Population
Displaced by Violence, and ordering other provisions.”
159
Cf. judgment T025 of January 22, 2004, issued by the Third Review Chamber of the
Constitutional Court (file of attachments to the brief answering the application, tome III, Appendix 30, ff.
4363 to 4747hh).
160
Report dated December 14, 2004, of the Technical Director of the Integral Attention Unit of the
Program for the Displaced of the Social Solidarity Network of the Presidency of the Republic (file of
attachments to the brief answering the application, tome III, folios 4629 to 4635).
161
Report dated December 14, 2004, of the Technical Director of the Integral Attention Unit of the
Program for the Displaced of the Social Solidarity Network of the Presidency of the Republic (file of
attachments to the brief answering the application, tome III, folios 4629 to 4635).
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