90 (j) 724 persons were obliged to abandon Ituango, 31 of whom were displaced from La Granja and 693 from El Aro; (k) Judgment 1150 of 2000 delivered by the Colombian Constitutional, which examined the scope of Act 387 of July 18, 1997, stated that “forced displacement violates international instruments, particularly the American Convention, [and] the displaced status is not conferred by the formal registration ordained by law, but rather by the expulsion to which the displaced person was subjected”; and (l) Judgment 025 of 2004 delivered by the Colombian Constitutional protected the fundamental rights of the displaced that were not recognized in Act 387 of July 18, 1997, or in the interpretation included in consolidated judgment 1150 of 2000. The State’s arguments 203. In relation to the alleged violation of Article 22 of the Convention, the State alleged that: (a) “The information available to the State does not allow it to conclude that the regrettable and violent events which occurred in La Granja on June 11, 1996, were the cause of displacement, or that all the persons whose names are cited in the petitioners’ brief were forced to leave their homes owing to the events in El Aro in October 1997”; (b) Specifically in the case of La Granja, “neither the evidence gathered by the domestic authorities, nor that alleged in these proceedings prove that the events led to the forced displacement of some of the residents”; (c) In the case of El Aro, the State is unaware of: (1) which of the persons indicated by the representatives “really” lived in El Aro; (2) what the inhabitants did for a living; (3) the composition of their families; (4) whether some of them “were really forced to displace to other zones”; (5) who returned to El Aro and when, and (6) who relocated to a new place; (d) Several of the people who left El Aro “returned to their homes and their work a few weeks after the events occurred”; (e) Of the list of displaced persons provided by the petitioners, only Luis Humberto Mendoza Arroyave and Julio Eliver Pérez Areiza, together with their family group of nine people appear on the Displaced Persons’ Register, and they received the corresponding State assistance; (f) Currently, there is “a genuine public policy of prevention and protection of persons at risk, including the displaced or those who could become displaced,” administered by the Presidential Advisory Service, entitled “Comprehensive care for the population displaced by violence”; (g) It has sought and received the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which has had an office in the country since 1997;