87 quit her job as community leader.424 Out of fear of retaliation, she had to move her residence several times since November 2002; she is currently getting divorced from her husband; and her son has become a drug addict.425 300. Ms. Rúa has testified before the IACHR how her family life changed for good with the displacement “because of the difficulty in returning to get all of the things we had, since we left only with the clothes on our backs, and were never able to recover the things we left in the house, because it was all stolen and then, the entire property was destroyed.”426 Both she and her husband have had trouble finding steady jobs during their displacement and, with regard to her children, she notes that: They don’t like to talk about what happened, my younger daughter has vague recollections of the house and always talks about or mentions going to the little house, and my two older daughters do have many sad and painful memories of what we had to experience, of the shootings, of all of the things we had to leave behind, of all of our things, the photo albums, the clothes, the toys, they remember the people from the neighborhood, a lot their experiences there.427 301. Ms. Mosquera – head of household – for economic reasons had to live separately from two of her children during her displacement from Comuna 13.428 She described the separation of the family and its impact as follows: My other two children did not leave with me because we had no place for all of us to go, because of our economic situation, because of a lack of support, out of fear of discrimination in other neighborhoods, and because they would tell me why should we all go and suffer together that instead they would stay and endure it all and if we get killed then there’s nothing else we can do. Being away from my sons, especially the little boys was very difficult for me, they suffered a lot, there was a lot of discrimination at school, they’d be told that their mother was a criminal (Mrs. Socorro Mosquera cries and is silent for a long time). And my oldest child was also stigmatized at 429 work. And I have also suffered a lot, it all hurts me, I don’t know when they’ll leave us alone. 302. It follows from the proven facts that both Ms. Mosquera as well as her next of kin have been the targets of a sequence of acts of violence which prevent them from living safely in Comuna 13.430 Ms. Naranjo – as head of household and the breadwinner for an extended family - lives in a 424 Annex 15. Statement of Luz Dary Ospina Bastidas received by GIDH addressed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, April 27, 2012. 425 Annex 15. Statement of Luz Dary Ospina Bastidas received by GIDH addressed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, April 27, 2012. 426 Annex 3. Statement of Miryam Eugenia Rúa Figueroa received by GIDH addressed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, April 27, 2012. 427 Annex 3. Statement of Miryam Eugenia Rúa Figueroa received by GIDH addressed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, April 27, 2012. 428 Observations of the petitioners dated August 16, 2006, pg. 1, Case file of provisional measures; Audio, IACHR, st Hearing, 131 Session, Cases “Comuna 13, 12.595 – Miriam Eugenia Rúa Figueroa, and 12.621 – Teresa Yarce, Mery Naranjo and Socorro Mosquera, Colombia, March 12, 2008. 429 Annex 78. Statement of María del Socorro Mosquera received by GIDH c addressed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, on May 2, 2012. 430 Annex 78. Statement of María del Socorro Mosquera received by GIDH addressed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, on May 2, 2012.

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