3 2.11. On August 9, 1999, at 10:00 hours, a group of 30 armed men, among which there were a lieutenant and several paramilitaries, entered the house of Eduard Motales, who was beaten and threatened to death, accusing him of being a guerilla deserter. A neighbor that was around, Luis Hidalgo, was also beaten. 2.12. On February 19, 2000, in the urban central area of the municipality of San José de Apartadó, Albeiro Montoya, Luis Ciro, and Alfonso Jiménez, Mario Urrego and Uvaldo Quintero were assassinated by a group of 20 men wearing military uniforms and carrying weapons AK, Galil and R-15. 2.13. On March 10, 2000, a peasant of El Gas trail, municipality of San José de Apartadó, found the house of one of his neighbors burned, the owner dead, and the rest of the family, his wife and five children, missing. According to some of the local authorities, the crime was committed by paramilitaries. 2.14. On May 13, 2000, at about 16 hours, Josmen Benitez, age 23, was forced to get off the public transportation vehicle where he was driving to San José de Apartadó, and he was later assassinated in the community of Policarpa de Apartadó by five paramilitaries wearing civilian clothes. 2.15. On June 8, 2000, men with their faces covered with balaclavas, supposedly militaries and paramilitaries, wearing military clothing and using AK guns, shot six members of the Community of San José de Apartadó. 2.16. On July 8, 2000, a group of about 20 hooded men assassinated Rigoberto Guzmán, Elodino Rivera, Diofanor Correa, Humberto Sepúlveda, Pedro Zapata and Jaime Guzmán, and retained other peasants. Before leaving the trail, the aggressors burned the community center where there was a telephone. The day after members of the 17th Brigade, along with paramilitaries, came in the house of Manuel Herrera, plundered the house, stole family goods, and threatened him and the entire community. 2.17. On July 16, 2000, Freddy Mazo, a young man of about 18 years of age, was taken out the municipality of San José de Apartadó that night, and his body was found nearby with visible evidence of having been injured with a machete. 2.18. On Friday August 25, 2000, at about 15:20 hours, armed people that would have identified themselves as members of the autodefensas campesinas, stopped a public transportation vehicle heading for San José de Apartadó, and forced Ignacio Arenas to get off. At about 16:20 hours, a group of peasants heading for San José de Apartadó saw on the highway edge the body of Arenas with a shot in his head. 2.19. On Tuesday September 19, 2000, at 13:45 hours, a group of five paramilitaries wearing civilian clothes and armed, along with a woman, intercepted a public transportation vehicle, forcing Luis Enrique Usuga to get off. His body, showing a shot in his head and another on his back, appeared in the community of La Chinita de Apartadó.