-110produce the result for which it was conceived. These conclusions require
the validity of the whole procedure to be examined in order to determine
whether the decisions taken were coherent and congruent with the facts
proved during the investigation conducted by the military criminal justice
system. Colombia’s constitutional jurisdiction has made an effective
contribution to the defense of human rights in this regard, redefining the
boundaries of the legitimate conception of the military jurisdiction;
ii. According to the Constitution, the bodies that administer justice in
Colombia include the military criminal justice system. The law can
attribute jurisdictional functions concerning certain issues to specific
administrative authorities. The Constitution establishes that the organs of
administration of justice, including the military criminal justice system, are
subject only to the rule of law. Equity, jurisprudence, the general
principles of law and legal doctrine are auxiliary criteria for judicial
activities; therefore, as an administrator of justice, the military criminal
judge is independent, autonomous, permanent, and freely accessible, and
his judgments are open to special resources such as cassation and review
before the Supreme Court of Justice. Consequently, the mere fact that a
case is heard by the military criminal justice system is not a cause of
impunity, and
iii. In this case, it is not appropriate to question the activities of the military
criminal justice system, particularly if the conclusions reached in different
judicial instances coincide;
(e) Regarding the ordinary criminal jurisdiction:
i.
From the start of the investigation, the State has tried to find the persons
who were disappeared;
ii. In the ordinary jurisdiction, investigations have been conducted, decisions
taken and sanctions imposed, according to the laws applicable at the time
of the illegal acts. The investigations have sought to include all those
responsible and all the alleged victims, to determine the social impact of
the criminal acts and to identify the criminal intention. There is no
impunity, because those directly responsible for the organization, planning
and implementation of the facts were sentenced to exemplary penalties;
the main perpetrator of the violations was brought to justice, tried and
convicted, and the anticipated judgments are res judicata in relation to
the facts stated in the confession, although not in relation to facts that are
new or different from those included in that judgment, and
iii. The jurisdiction has not been exhausted. The efforts to find those
responsible, whatever their rank continues, as do the efforts to recover
the bodies of the alleged victims. The investigation of this case is being
conducted by the Special Investigations Committee, an administrative
mechanism that represents the State’s utmost effort and interest in
investigating and sanctioning those responsible for grave human rights
violations.
(f) The duration of the respective criminal proceedings is reasonable, because
the case is extremely complex. The rights of the alleged victims to know the
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