adverse effects on the family structures232 and, third, to problems for the children’s
schooling.233
E.2.2. Bocas del Atrato
119. Another group from Cacarica was displaced on February 24, 1997,234 to Bocas del Atrato,
15 kilometer from Turbo, crossing the Gulf of Urabá. According to information provided by the
Commission and the representatives, it was composed of 70 individuals, who were
accommodated in a school classroom and with local families.235 Furthermore, according to the
Ombudsman’s Office, “the Cacarica confrontations ousted approximately 250 persons from their
homes to the village of Bocas de Atrato”236.
E.2.3. Panama
120. In addition, around 200 people went on foot to Panama.237 This group established
impromptu camps in the Darien region.238 However, shortly after arriving in Panama, the
displaced were informed that they could not remain in that country. 239 The Colombian State
regard, see also the affidavits of January 21, 2013, prepared by Etilbia del Cármen Páez Cierra (evidence file, folio
15043) and Franscisco Frenio Fernandez Padilla (evidence file, folio 15056). There is also evidence that most of them
slept on the floor and, later, in beds located one beside the other, without any privacy, in the open space of the sports
arena. Cf. Affidavits of January 21, 2013, prepared by Alicia Mosquera Hurtado (evidence file, folio 14973), Etilbia Del
Carmen Paez Cierra (evidence file, folio 15043), Leopoldina Ulloa Montaño (evidence file, folio 15065), and Elvia
Hinestroza Roa (evidence file, folio 15032); sworn statement presented by Augusto Gomez Rivas before the National
Complaints Directorate of the Ombudsman’s Office on November 4, 2003 (evidence file, folio 50923).
232
Cf. Affidavits of January 21, 2013, prepared by Ernestina Valencia Teherán (evidence file, folios 15024 and
15025), and Lucelis Bautista Pérez (evidence file, folio 15005). Regarding the physical problems, see affidavit prepared
by Jerónimo Pérez Argumedo on January 21, 2013 (evidence file, folio 14929). Regarding the destruction of the families
as a result of the displacement and subsequent experiences, see also, the affidavits of January 21, 2013, prepared by
Franscisco Frenio Fernández Padilla (evidence file, folios 15056 and 15059), Jerónimo Pérez Argumedo (evidence file,
folio 14939 and 14933), Alicia Mosquera Hurtado (evidence file, folio 14974), John Jairo Mena Palacio (evidence file,
folio 14987), Ángel Nelis Palacios Quintos (evidence file, folio 14998) and Etilbia del Cármen Páez Cierra (evidence file,
folio 15045).
233
Cf. Affidavit prepared by Alicia Mosquera Hurtado on January 21, 2013 (evidence file, folio 14973). See also:
Affidavits of January 21, 2013, prepared by Etilbia Del Carmen Paez Cierra (evidence file, folio 15043), John Jairo Mena
Palacio (evidence file, folio 14984), and Marcos Fidel Velásquez (evidence file, folio 14953). Similarly, Report of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Office in Colombia to the fifty-fourth session of the
Commission on Human Rights. E/CN 4/1998/16, 9 March 1998 (evidence file, folio 752).
234
Cf. Testimony of M.A.C.M. before the Prosecutor General’s Office, Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law Unit of December 11, 2002 (evidence file, folio 634), and Testimony of M.B.S. Serrano before the
Prosecutor General’s Office, Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit, of December 11, 2002 (evidence
file, folio 645).
235
Cf. Decision No. 025 of the Ombudsman on the massive human rights violations and forced displacement in the
Bajo Atrato region of Chocó, October 2002 (evidence file, folio 231).
236
Cf. Ombudsman’s Office, Apartadó Regional Office, Complaint 9745030-Cacarica-Operation Genesis-01-031997 (evidence file, folio 50735).
237
Cf. Ombudsman’s Office. Decision No. 025 of the Ombudsman on the massive human rights violations and
forced displacement in the Bajo Atrato region of Chocó, October 2002 (evidence file, folio 231). See also: Constitutional
Court. Judgment T-955 of October 17, 2003 (evidence file, folio 135); Testimony of M.A.C.M. before the Special
Commission of the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit on December 11, 2002 (evidence file, folio
634). See also: Testimony of M.B.S. Serrano before the Special Commission of the Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law Unit on December 11, 2002 (evidence file, folio 645). See also, Press communiqué No. 151 of the
Ombudsman’s Office, Bogota, April 17, 1997 (evidence file, folio 51393).
238
Cf. Affidavit prepared by Francisco Frenio Fernandez Padilla on January 21, 2013 (evidence file, folio 15055).
See also: Affidavit of Eleodoro Sánchez Mosquera of January 21, 2013 (evidence file, folio 15012). Also, Press
communiqué No. 151 of the Ombudsman’s Office, Bogota, April 17, 1997 (evidence file, folio 51393).
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