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military forces in his residence on June 26, 1996.214 On July 11, 1996 Andrés Antonio Gallego Castaño
and Florinda de Jesús Gallego Hernández filed two complaints with the municipal criminal court of
Cocorná for a string of acts taking place in the village up until that time, with an emphasis on joint
involvement of the armed forces with paramilitary groups. Reference was also made to the acts of June
26, 1996 being committed exclusively by members of the military forces.215 On that same day, the
municipal criminal court of Cocorná forwarded both complaints to the Sectional Office of the Attorney
General of the Municipality of El Carmen de Viboral.216
132. Complaints for the disappearances were also filed by the municipal offices of the
ombudsman of Cocorná and El Carmen de Viboral217 and were subsequently forwarded to the Office of
Special Investigations of the Office of the Inspector General of the Nation, Sectional Office of Antioquia,
and to the Regional Office of the People’s Ombudsman of Medellín.218 On July 12, 1996, the Office of
Special Investigations of the Office of the Inspector General of the Nation conducted an on-site visit,219
holding a meeting with the mayor, municipal ombudsman, the secretary of the government and three
inspectors who reported disappearances and violations committed by the National Army in the
Municipality.220 It was put on the record that several troop movements were taking place in the area,
“which cause confrontations with the guerrilla groups and endanger the lives of the civilian
214
Annex 21. Complaint filed by Eliseo Gallego Quintero with the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, Local
Unit of Cocorná, dated July 8, 1996. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 1. Compact disk attached to petitioners’’ communication
of June 24, 2010.
215
Annex 21. Complaint filed by Andrés Antonio Gallego Castaño with the Municipal Criminal Court of Cocorná, dated
July 11, 1996. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 1. Pages 1-3. Compact disk attached to petitioners’’ communication of June 24,
2010; Annex 46. Complaint filed by Florinda de Jesús Gallego Hernández with the Municipal Criminal Court of Cocorná, dated
July 11, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ communication of July 1, 1999.
216
Annex 21. Official Letter of the Municipal Criminal Court of Cocorná, dated July 11, 1996. Case File No. 233 UNDH.
Book No. 1. Page 4. Compact disk attached to petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.
217
Annex 21. Letter written by Helí Gómez, Municipal Ombudsman of Carmen de Viboral, published in the newspaper
El Carmeliano, July-August issue 1996. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 1. Compact disk attached to petitioners’’
communication of June 24, 2010; Annex 21. Official Letter No. 069 of the Local Unit of Office of the Attorney General assigned
to the Municipal Criminal Court of Cocorná, dated April 17, 1997. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 1. Page 204. Compact disk
attached to petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.
218
Annex 19. Submission of the Corporación Jurídica Libertad to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the
Attorney General of the Nation, filed on April 2, 2007. Annex to petitioners’ communication of July 1, 1999; Annex 52.
Submission of Municipal Ombudsman of El Carmen de Viboral, Heli Gómez Osorio, to the Prosecutor assigned to the Circuit of
the Sectional Unit of the Office of the Attorney General, Fabiola Bermúdez Roa, dated July 18, 1996. Annex to petitioners’
communication of July 1, 1999.
219
Annex 21. Letter written by Helí Gómez, Municipal Ombudsman of Carmen de Viboral, published in the newspaper
El Carmeliano, July-August issue 1996. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 1. Compact disk attached to petitioners’’
communication of June 24, 2010.
220
Annex 52. Submission of Municipal Ombudsman of El Carmen de Viboral, Heli Gómez Osorio, to the Prosecutor
assigned to the Circuit of the Sectional Unit of the Office of the Attorney General, Fabiola Bermúdez Roa, dated July 18, 1996.
Annex to petitioners’ communication of July 1, 1999.