form part of the displaced persons in the camp, and (iii) to ensure that State agents and private individuals respect the camps for the displaced as humanitarian sites that enjoy special protection.” e) On July 8, 1998, the State presented its response, in which it provided information on the aspects referred to by the Commission, and indicated: (i) regarding the insecurity in the shelters for the displaced and in the stadium, these sites were “being guarded by the Police and, from the time the preventive measures were ordered to date, no threats have occurred against those who are provisionally settled in the said places,” and (ii) regarding the information presented by the Presidential Adviser for the Displaced, “the national Government has been establishing a climate of cordiality with the representatives of the different communities located there related to the return to their places of origin”; f) On April 24, 2000, the Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz forwarded information to the Inter-American Commission on supposed interrogations by paramilitaries to which the inhabitants of the Turbo stadium had been subjected when the first phase of their return to their places of origin started. In addition, they reported the presumed murder of a peasant named Otoniel Bautista Mantilla on March 22, 2000, accompanied by threats against the people; g) During meetings held in Bogotá in April and November 2001, and October 2002, as well as at the public hearings held at its seat in May 2002, and working meetings that took place during its 113th, 116th, 118th, 119th and 123rd regular sessions in Washington D.C, the Commission received information on the persistence of the presumed situation of risk that gave rise to the award of the preventive measures, and h) On February 8, 2003, the Inter-American Commission asked the State to take the greatest possible care to ensure that the security forces protected the life and integrity of the “Nueva Vida” and “Esperanza de Dios” communities and that the Subcommittee on Protection of the Cacarica Joint Verification Commission consider establishing the permanent presence of representatives of the State in the settlements in order to guarantee their security. 4. The alleged events on which the request for provisional measures presented by the representatives is based, namely: a) On August 10, 2012, at a roadblock in Tumaradó, a village by the Atrato River, paramilitaries threatened to kill an Afro-descendant youth. They detained a boat that was carrying 20 people from Turbo to Cacarica. After examining the occupants, they accused the youth of being a member of the guerrilla and ordered him to get out of the boat. The other occupants of the boat persuaded the paramilitaries not to kill the young man and to let them depart; b) On the same date, in one of the Orejuela family’s Biodiversity Zones, located 15 minutes from the Nueva Esperanza en Dios Humanitarian Zone, soldiers from the Army’s 17th Brigade damaged subsistence crops and stole more than 15 yucca plants; c) At 9 a.m. on August 18, 2012, loud explosions were heard between the Nueva Esperanza Humanitarian Zone and the village of Bogotá, following which two helicopters flew over the area and these events sowed panic and anxiety among the communities; d) On August 19, 2012, during meetings on the processes for restitution of land, redress for the victims, and on Afro-Colombians, 7 two of the women plaintiffs before the Court were threatened by a man who said: “Justicia y Paz has organized a meetings in the stadium, but this is going to end”; e) On August 22, 2012, three men in uniform entered the Nueva Esperanza en Dios Humanitarian Zone, apparently from the 17th Brigade, hiding in a vegetable patch with their rifles at the ready; f) On August 25, 2012, confrontations occurred between troops of the 17th Brigade and members of the guerrilla from the 57th Front of the FARC, in which Auralicia Quinto was injured by grenade fragments; 7 In particular, they indicated that one of those attending the meeting approached two of the women who are plaintiffs before the Inter-American Court and, in an intimidating tone, told them that they would not be allowed to hold further meetings in the stadium, saying “this is going to end.” 3