15 way because (…) there’s no other solution (…) if you don’t mow them down, they’ll mow you down.”21 This group also engaged in the practice of recruiting children and adolescents.22 67. Both the Office of the Prosecutor and the municipal ombudsman of Cocorná indicated that the Self-Defense Forces of Magdalena Medio had lists of individuals when the acts were committed, who they charged with being members of or collaborators with the guerrilla groups.23 It was further noted that once someone appeared on their lists, “they take the victims into custody, they get all the information out of them they can and then they murder them.” It was reported that members of the civilian population, who had no relationship with the guerrilla’s, went missing and were murdered.24 They were also accused of “uncountable selective homicides of peasants, left-wing political leaders and union leaders, as well as kidnappings and disappearances.”25 1.2. Aquila Task Force (FTA) created by the Army Command and the Presence of the National Army 68. The FTA was created on August 1, 1994, under Directive No. 0061 of the Army 26 Command. It was organized on August 6, 1994, by bringing together Counter Guerrilla Battalion No. 42 Héroes de Barbacoas, with a unit of the Ingeniero Pedro Nel Ospina Battalion of the 4th Brigade and a unit of the Bárbula Infantry Battalion of the 14th Brigade, and had jurisdiction over the municipalities of San Luis, San Francisco and Cocorná in the Department of Antioquia.27 One officer from each brigade 21 Annex 6. Transcript of interview of Ramón Izasa of September 1997 by the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, dated June 10, 1998. Annex to petitioners’ communication of September 1, 2004. 22 Annex 1. Report No. 032. Sectional Directorate of the Technical Investigation Corps of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic. Intelligence Report on self-defense groups, dated June 28, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ communication th dated October 5, 2000. Also see. Annex 7. Complaint filed by Arley de Jesús Arango with the 27 Military Criminal Investigative Magistrate’s Court, dated April 30, 2010; Annex 7. Statement of Arley de Jesús Arango to the Administrative Department of Security, dated September 10, 1996. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 4. Compact Disk attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 23 Annex 1. Report No. 032. Sectional Directorate of the Technical Investigation Corps of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic. Intelligence Report on self-defense groups, dated June 28, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ communication dated October 5, 2000. Annex 8. Letter of the Municipal Ombudsman of Cocorná to the Regional People’s Ombudsman of Medellin, dated July 21, 1996. SIFUJ No. 752.065. Office of Special Prosecutor 53 assigned to the Rural Gaula [Anti-abduction and anti-extortion group] East Antioquia. Page 26. Compact Disk attached to the petitioners’ communication dated June 24, 2010; Annex 9. Official Letter from the Municipal Human Rights Ombudsman of Cocorná, Edgar Alzate García, to the Regional People’s Ombudsman of Medellin, dated October 21, 1996. Case File No. 233 UNDH [National Human Rights Unit]. Book No. 12. Pages 313-314. Compact disk attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 24 Annex 1. Report No. 032. Sectional Directorate of the Technical Investigation Corps of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic. Intelligence Report on self-defense groups, dated June 28, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ communication dated October 5, 2000. 25 Annex 1. Report No. 032. Sectional Directorate of the Technical Investigation Corps of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic. Intelligence Report on self-defense groups, dated June 28, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ communication dated October 5, 2000. 26 Annex 14. Report No. FGN CTI SI GDH C4-C13 of the Technical Investigation Corps of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, dated February 1, 1999. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 3. Compact disk attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 27 Annex 10. On-site judicial inspection visit to the National Army First Division conducted by the Office of the Attorney General, dated September 7, 1999. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 3A. Page 73. Compact disk attached to the th petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010; Annex 11. On-site judicial inspection visit to the guard unit of the 14 Brigade as requested by the Human Rights Unit, dated February 26, 2001; Annex 11. Tactical Case No. BR14-BIBAR-S3-326 of the National