166.
Mrs. Diana Isabel Porras Ramírez said that “comments were made in the sense that the same
night there were more than 30 dead in Barrancabermeja” and “it was said it was the result of three soldiers
been killed” and “that for every soldier they killed there were going to be ten ‘dogs’ killed.” She stated that she
learnt that same day that in the truck were the three young men were being carried, a cousin of her was also
being taken, his name Carlos Zabala, who said that if his mother, Blanca, didn’t make him get off the truck, he
would have experienced the same fate.”258
167.
In relation to this event, Mrs. Blanca Nieves Serrano Perdomo indicated that she was with
her husband at home when a youngster “told them that they had taken her son.” She said that they
immediately called the Battalion and were told “that they had called the truck and they were to be released.”
Due to the fact that “they were not released and hadn’t made it home” they went to La Esperanza, via the
bamboo way, she waited for “the truck” and stopped it. She said that her son and “two other young men” were
released then;” however, “they took Albeiro and the others; she didn’t know how many they were.” According
to her, she knew Albeiro because “he was married to, Diana Porras, a cousin of her husband.” She said that
her “son and two other young men” who were neighbors from the same block, “David Guiza” and his “brother
Alberto” were at the store. She stated that she was able to see that Albeiro was on the truck, “in the back,”
that she saw him “well” and that “her son was closer to the truck’s exit.” The bicycles were there, “lying
against the truck.”259
168.
Mrs. Amparo Quiñónez Bárcenas, Wilfredo Quiñónez’s sister, stated that the witnesses of
these events are “those who have made witness reports before ‘the human rights’, we have asked them to
come to the Prosecutors Office and they decline.” Also “a lady from el LLANITO who saw the corpses but we
haven’t found her.” “Another man with a car with a coconut seed whose name we don’t know and is from
HACIENDA LAS PALMERAS,” who heard when the soldiers were saying, “let’s leave this dog here and …let’s go
get the other two.”260 Mrs. Amparo Quiñónez also indicated that she learnt that the vehicle in which his
brother was being transported had a license with “numbers 677 but I don’t know the letters,” “it was kind of a
flat truck with a white front” that “was carrying a black cover.”261
169.
Mrs. María Rosalba Bárcenas indicated that according to “several neighbors, her son was
“detained by the Army” and “taken from a house in diagonal” to where there was a “military roadblock” and
“the Army members threatened the house owners.”262 Mrs. Bárcenas stated that the house were they kept
her son had the door number 393, on the other side the number 36240 and in the diagonal plate the number
60.263 She also learned that “around September 5, soldiers passed by the sector and when they saw the
posters they expressed that those were the robbers that they killed the night before.”264 Amparo Quiñónez,
Wilfredo’s sister, stated that “the neighborhood’s youth comment that the Army would pass by over and over
again and would say that they needed to clean the block.”265
258 Annex. 78. Statement by Mrs. Diana Isabel Porras Ramírez before the 67th Unit on Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law of the Attorney General’s Office of October 6, 2008. Annex 31 of the petitioners’ brief received on December 6, 2010.
259Annex. 85. Statement by Mrs. Blanca Nieves Serrano Perdomo before the 67th Unit on HR and IHL of October 5, 2011. Annex
to the petitioners’ brief received on March 14, 2012.
260Annex. 86. Statement by Amparo Quiñónez Bárcenas before the Judicial Investigator of the 39th Prosecutor’s Office at the
Circuit Criminal Court, October 19, 1995. Annex 9 of the petitioners’ brief received on December 6, 2010.
261Annex. 86. Statement by Amparo Quiñónez Bárcenas before the Judicial Investigator of the 39th Prosecutor’s Office at the
Circuit Criminal Court, October 19, 1995. Annex 9 of the petitioners’ brief received on December 6, 2010.
262 Annex. 75. Statement by María Rosalba Bárcenas Torres before the Municipal Ombudsperson (Personería Municipal) on
September 7th, 1995. Annex 4 of the petitioners’ brief received on December 6, 2010.
263 Annex. 77. Additional statement and ratification by Mrs. Rosalba Bárcenas Torres of October 19, 1995. Annex 8 of the
petitioners’ brief received on December 6, 2010.
264 Annex. 77. Additional statement and ratification by Mrs. Rosalba Bárcenas Torres of October 19, 1995. Annex 8 of the
petitioners’ brief received on December 6, 2010.
265Annex. 87. Statement by Amparo Quiñónez Bárcenas before the Judicial Investigator of the 39th Prosecutor’s Office at the
Circuit Criminal Court, October 19, 1995. Annex 9 of the petitioners’ brief received on December 6, 2010.