-29events, the witness went with other people to the San Pedro military base to look for
the disappeared, but the Army did not offer to help them find [the disappeared] and
they had to return to the village. He said that, months later, he was advised about
the remains found on “Las Tangas,” but he did not learn this from the prosecutor’s
office or any State authority. When he went to identify the corpses in the hospital
where the remains had been “thrown on the floor,” he did not receive any type of
help from the hospital personnel, or the prosecutor’s office, or any State official.
The witness stated that, following the facts, “many [of the people of Pueblo Bello
were] dispersed, displaced […] to Turbo, Chigorodó and Apartadó.” The Army told
them they had to leave the village because, if they did not leave, “they were
accomplices of the guerrilla.” Consequently, he had to go to Chigorodó with his
cattle. As a displaced person, members of the Army “took advantage of the situation,
[…] and obliged [him] to sell [his] farm.”
Mr. Díaz Romero stated that, since the facts occurred, he lives “in penury, […] in a
bad financial situation, and ha[s] suffered owing to the violence, the distress of so
many people, that does not allow [him] to live in peace.”
The witness stated that he knows the authorities have looked for his son, Ariel, but
“they have never been able to give him any certainty about anything, [anything at
all], even the remains [of his son].” Following the events, “[his] children left [and
his] wife was in a very bad way.” Finally, he said that “it is impossible […] to explain
the anguish, the sadness […], and [particularly] owing to the lack of help.”
d) Blanca Libia Moreno Cossio, mother of Camilo Antonio Durango
Moreno
Mrs. Moreno Cossio lived with her husband and children. Her son, Camilo, was 20
years of age and, together with her husband, supported the household.
When the witness heard about what had happened in Pueblo Bello, she went to find a
means of transport to go to San Pedro de Urabá, together with the next of kin of the
other people who were disappeared, in order to seek information on the whereabouts
of her son; but they were unable to obtain any information.
The witness indicated that she also went to the Montería hospital to try and identify
her son among the corpses there. The bodies were “in a horrible state of
decomposition” and she had no one to advise her how to identify her son. To date,
no State authority has given her any information about her son’s whereabouts.
Mrs. Moreno Cossio stated that Belarmino, her youngest son, was 9 years old at the
time of the facts. Following the alleged disappearance of his brother, the child
“became very sad” and constantly asked for the return of his brother. The witness
said that the child “was terribly sad, […] ever after he was sad, sad.” The little boy
told her that “Camilo had been to see him; that Camilo threw him a noose and said
that he should put it on and jump and nothing would happen.” The witness took her
youngest son to a doctor, who said that “nothing was wrong with him; that it was
just his imagination; it was impossible to take him to a specialist [owing to their]
financial situation, because [they] did not have insurance or anything, [and they]
had to leave him without any treatment.” The witness stated that two weeks after
this happened, her youngest son hanged himself. They took him to the hospital
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