“null”, with no reason being given, and the commander did not allow the respective
medical exams for her to recover her job, which was very “disheartening.” Two
months later she filed a complaint against the dismissal before the Office of the
Director of the Police in Bogotá, after which she was reinstated, but she was
assigned functions pertaining to meals for the members of the police force, so as to
isolate her from all information in the institution and lower her job status. She felt
discriminated and mistreated by the police. Then she went on maternity leave, and
subsequently returned to the same position as a secretary.
After the facts, the Police commander stated at meetings that there were undercover
operatives and informants of the guerrilla forces in the department. Furthermore,
the members of the “SIJIN”, which is an intelligence and investigative body,
harassed the men in her family by means of searches, following them, and through
surveillance. They realized that their phones were tapped. However, they never
denounced these facts. The aforementioned events continue to affect the family
because persons who arrive at Mocoa, especially police Agents, hear the account that
her next of kin are guerrilla fighters. For this reason, many people have kept a
distance from her family. Lack of punishment of those responsible and persistence
of the idea that her father was a guerrilla fighter have morally affected her family.
One way to avoid repetition of these facts is for everything that happened to be
made known publicly and officially, clearly explaining how it happened and that it
was a mistake by the police. She has never testified regarding her father’s death.
She also feels fear in testifying before the Court.
e)
Blanca Flor Rojas, the widow of Julio Milciades Cerón Gómez and the
mother of Wilian Hamilton and Edebraes Norverto, both of them Cerón Rojas.
The day of the facts she was worried because her sons had not returned and she
sent a boy to take lunch to them where they were working, but the police did not let
him by and threatened him. She saw that the fire truck had arrived at the hospital
with several persons, among whom she recognized her husband and sons. Then she
was informed that the police had taken her son Bladimir and she was told that her
next of kin had been killed because they were guerrilla fighters. She then requested
help at the secondary school and at the Government Attorneys’ Office for Bladimir to
be set free, and he was. After the facts, the police watched their house constantly.
Bladimir’s motorcycle was taken from him several times even though all the
documents were in order. It was he whom they intimidated, threatened, and
harassed most. The day she went with María Adelina López and Amanda Anacona to
claim their husbands’ belongings, the police showed them some weapons and said
that they had found them “at the Cerón’s farm,” which caused her great humiliation
and grief. The witness and her family had to abandon the farm for a long time due
to threats by the police, and no one wanted to accept the job of milking the cows out
of fear.
She testified before the respective authorities whenever she was summoned, but she
felt intimidated. She told the police that they were not guerrilla fighters, but when
she went to testify they always told her that they were. She even accompanied the
criminal trial judge conducting an enquiry, and paid the fare for witnesses to go
testify. The fact that those responsible have not been punished makes her fearful
due to the presence of the paramilitary forces, who surely believe that her son
Leyman, who works in the villages, is the son of a guerrilla fighter. Her sons became
very withdrawn as a consequence of the facts. Her health has been affected as she
suffers insomnia and depression, and she now has a heart ailment.
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