ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF AUGUST 12, 2000 CLEMENTE TEHERÁN ET AL. CASE* HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter the “Court” or the “Inter-American Court”) of June 19, 1998. 2. The Order of the Court of January 29, 1999, whereby it decided 1. To require that the State of Colombia maintain the measures necessary to protect the lives and physical safety of Rosember Clemente Teherán, Armando Mercado, Nilson Zurita, Edilberto Gaspar Rosario, Dorancel Ortiz, Leovigildo Castillo, Santiago Méndez, Ziola Riondo, Saúl Lucas, José Guillermo Carmona, Celedonio Padilla, Eudo Mejía-Montalvo, Marcelino Suárez-Lázaro, Fabio Antonio Guevara, José Luis Mendoza, Misael Suárez-Estrada, Ingilberto M. Pérez, Martín Florez, Jacinto Ortiz-Quintero, Juan Antonio Almanza-Pacheco, José Carpio-Beltrán, and Luis Felipe Álvarez-Polo, in order to avoid irreparable damage to them, in strict conformity with the obligations to respect and guarantee human rights, which it undertook to fulfill under Article 1(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights. 2. To require the State of Colombia to investigate the acts denounced that gave rise to the present measures, for the purpose of obtaining effective results which will lead to the discovery and punishment of those responsible. 3. To require possible connection groups, especially (councilman), Juan paramilitary groups. that the State of Colombia investigate the truthfulness of the of the persons protected by the provisional measures with illegal the possible participation of Rosember Clemente Teherán Carlos Casado (mayor), and Marcelino Suárez (chief) in armed 4. To require that the State listen to the opinions of the petitioners and inform them as to progress in the implementation of the measures ordered by the Court. 5. To require that the State of Colombia, in its next report, include information on the measures adopted in relation to the operative paragraphs of the present Order. 6. To require that the State of Colombia continue to submit its report s every two months on the provisional measures taken and that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights present its observations to those reports within a period of six weeks of their receipt. 3. The writing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter the “Commission” or the “Inter-American Commission”) of December 10, 1999, by means of which it requested the Court to lift the provisional measures ordered by the Court, since they “were no longer appropriate in light of Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights.” * Judge Sergio García-Ramírez informed the Court that, because of force majeure, he would be unable to be present at the deliberations and signing of this Order.