16 would rotate every three months in the task force command position. According to the statement of one of the FTA commanders, his position involved exerting “control directly” over the soldiers in that area,28 and he was responsible staying up-to-date on all incidents and keeping a record of troop operations.29 Its territorial jurisdiction covered the area between kilometer marker 59 and 137 of the Medellin-Bogota highway,30 including 5 kilometers in either direction off-highway.31 69. The objective of said group, the command post of which operated out of La Piñuela military base, municipality of Cocorná,32 was to design a strategic plan of control and security over the area as well as set up “an offensive combat detail” against the guerrilla forces.33 With respect to the method of transportation used by the FTA, one of the military officers who had been an FTA commander claimed that “people would just come forward (...) and would offer to take the troops to the area where they could locate members of the subversive (...) gangs.”34 Likewise, Major Carlos Guzmán, former FTA commander noted that the group did not have vehicles assigned to them and therefore they would travel in private vehicles with “the motorist’s prior consent.”35 Army, signed by Coronel Carlos Suárez, dated June 10, 1996. Pages 26-34. Book No. 8. Compact disk attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 28 Annex 12. Statement of Carlos Alberto Guzmán Lombana to the Regional Office of Prosecutors, Investigation InTake Section, dated March 26, 1998. Case File No. 233 UNDH [National Human Rights Unit]. Book No. 2. Pages 118-131. Compact disk attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 29 Annex 13. Statement of Carlos Arturo Suárez Bustamante to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated September 27, 2002. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 9. Pages 125-130. Compact disk attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 30 Annex 14. Report: Term Situation Report of the Command of the Águila Task Force, which secures the MedellínBogotá highway, signed by the departing Commander of the Águila Task Force, Major Jairo Hurtado Olaya, dated October 31, 2005. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 3. Compact disk attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 31 Annex 15. Initial statement on the facts in response to charges, given by Carlos Alberto Guzmán Lombana, File 233 UDH, dated February 13, 2001. Annex to the petitioners’ submission received in the IACHR on February 1, 2007; Annex 11. Continuation of initial statement on facts of Carlos Guzmán Lombana, to the National Human Rights Unit, dated February 20, 2001. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 8. Compact disk attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 32 Annex 16. Statement of Staff Sergeant Luis Fernando Guerrero Burbano to the National Office of Special Investigations of the Office of the Inspector General of the Nation, Antioquia Section, dated November 16, 1995. Preliminary investigation No. 009-151553. Annex to petitioners’ communication of October 5, 2000. 33 Annex 17. Plan No. 000969/BR4-BIOSP-S3-375, which is issued by the Ingeniero Pedro Nel Ospina Battalion Command for control over the Medellin-Bogota highway under the responsibility of the Águila Task Force for February 1 to April 30, 1995, dated February 1, 1995. Annex to petitioners’ communication of September 1, 2004; Annex 14. Official Letter No. BR4 from the Commander of the Fourth Brigade, Brigadier General Jorge Mora Rangel, of February 1995. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 3. Compact disk attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 34 Annex 13. Statement of Carlos Arturo Suárez Bustamante to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated September 27, 2002. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 9. Pages 125-130. Compact disk attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 35 Annex 15. Carlos Alberto Guzmán Lombana’s initial statement on the facts in response to the charges, File 233 UDH, dated February 13, 2001. Annex to the petitioners’ submission received in the IACHR on February 1, 2007; Annex 11. Continuation of initial statement on the facts of Carlos Guzmán Lombana, to the National Human Rights Unit, dated February 20, 2001. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 8. Compact disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010.