4 o) on March 2, 2004, during its 119th regular session, the Commission held a hearing to discuss issues relating to the requested precautionary measures. During that hearing, the petitioners and the State filed a joint report on the commitments undertaken for implementation of the measures. In that report, reference was made to two visits made to the Kankuamo Indigenous Reserve, at which agents of the State and representatives of the petitioners were present. The purpose of the visits was to get a process of consultations started within the Kankuamo people and to agree upon the measures to be adopted; p) on March 4, 2004, the petitioners reported threats made against the leaders of the Kankuamo indigenous people who had already been forcibly displaced to Bogotá; the threats were mainly in the form of acts of aggression committed by a group of six armed men who fired shots at the Bogotá residence of indigenous leader Gilberto Arlanth Arlza; q) the Commission learned of the March 8, 2004 execution of Mr. Ildomar Montero, which was portrayed as being the result of clashes being the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia and the Colombian Army; r) the Commission also learned of the April 14, 2004 execution of Mr. Oscar Enrique Montero Arias; s) the Commission learned of the detention and subsequent execution of Mr. Néstor Oñate Arias, who had allegedly been unlawfully detained by troops with the Colombian Army’s Operational Command No. 7 on April 16, 2004; his lifeless body was found the following day in the district of Antaquez; and t) The Commission learned of the June 26, 2004 execution of Mr. Romelio Antonio Pacheco. 3. The Commission’s observations to the effect that when taken together, the facts alleged constitute a situation of extreme gravity and urgency that could result in irreparable harm to the members of the Kankuamo indigenous people. The Commission stated further that the State did not comply with the precautionary measures the Commission had ordered in this case. In light of the foregoing, the Commission requested that the Court call upon Colombia to: 1. [p]rotect the life and the integrity of person of the members of the Kankuamo indigenous people in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and respect their cultural identity and their special relationship with their ancestral territory[;] 2. [i]nvestigate the facts that necessitated the request for provisional measures in order to identify and prosecute those responsible and punish them accordingly[;] 3. [e]nsure that the beneficiaries are able to continue to inhabit their ancestral territory free of any form of coercion or threat, and provide them with humanitarian aid whenever necessary.

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