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the two of them being taken away in the SUVs. She claimed that one of the armed men told her not to
worry because “they would send them back”210 and that “they couldn’t do anything, because they had
been ordered to do that.”211 Leonidas Cardona’s wife testified that when the men left in the SUVs she
ran out of the house and saw “two dump trucks full of Army soldiers behind the SUVs.”212 After this
incident, she reported that an FTA soldier told her “that whatever Ramón Isaza picked up was not seen
again.”213
128. As yet, the fate or whereabouts of Andrés Gallego Castaño and Leonidas Cardona
Giraldo are unknown.
3.7.
Available information on family members of alleged victims
129. On August 27, 2010, the petitioners submitted a list of the family members of the
alleged victims. The Commission notes that this document is dissagregated according to the relatives of
each victim. The Commission also notes that the relatives of each victim are comprised of spouses,
brothers, sisters, sons, daughters or parents; that is the nuclear family. The Commission also notes that
each family member, except two relatives, is registered with their identity card or civil registration
number. Finally, the Commission notes that during the proceedings before the IACHR the State did not
provide any evidence tending to object to the quality of the relatives of the alleged victims.
130. Given the above considerations, the Commission will take into account in its merits
analysis the list of family members presented by the petitioners which is detailed in its only annex to the
instant report.
4.
Judicial Proceedings
4.1.
Criminal Proceeding No. 233
131. On July 8, 1996 José Eliseo Gallego Quintero filed a complaint with the Cocorna’s local
unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation for violations committed by members of the
communication of June 24, 2010; Annex 8. Complaint of María de la Cruz Hernández Gallego filed with the Office of the
Attorney General of the Nation, dated December 30, 1996. SIFUJ No. 752.065. Office of Special Prosecutor 53 assigned to the
Rural Gaula Eastern Antioquia. Pages 3. Compact disk attached to petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.
210
Annex 24. Statement of María de la Cruz Hernández de Gallego to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of
the Attorney General of the Nation, dated November 8, 2004. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 71-72. Compact disk
attached to petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.
211
Annex 8. Addendum to complaint of María de la Cruz Hernández de Gallego filed with the Office of the Attorney
General of the Nation, dated July 8, 2009. SIFUJ No. 752.065. Office of Special Prosecutor 53 assigned to the Rural Gaula Eastern
Antioquia. Pages 86-96. Compact disk attached to petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.
212
Annex 9. Statement of María del Rocío Cardona Fernández to the Office of Special Prosecutor 53 assigned to the
Rural Gaula Eastern Antioquia, dated February 26, 2009. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 12. Pages 329-334. Compact disk
attached to petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.
213
Annex 12. Statement of María Rocío Cardona to the National Human Rights Unit of the Regional Office of the
Attorney General, dated April 14, 1998. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 2. Pages 192-194. Compact disk attached to
petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.