46 reporting on the incursion and foreseeing the violation of the fundamental rights of the population of Mapiripán. 96.38 The Attorney General’s Office concluded that Brigadier General Jaime Humberto Uscátegui Ramírez, Commander of the VII Brigade, and Colonel Lino Hernando Sánchez Prado, Commander of the 2d Mobile Brigade, demonstrated complete functional and operational inactivity despite knowing about the massacre. Furthermore, said Office established that in face of the arrival of the AUC, the troops of the Joaquín París Battalion were mobilized from San José de Guaviare toward other locations, leaving the population of said places and of Mapiripán unprotected. Lieutenant Orozco Castro stated that when it became necessary to send military forces to Mapiripán, they had been deployed elsewhere in places such as Puerto Concordia, el Retorno and Calamar. On July 15, 1997, the last companies of the Joaquín París Battalion were ordered to go to Calamar, despite the fact that there was no confirmation of public order disturbances in that place. Mobilization of the Army troops was unjustified and it was based on conjecture or mere contingencies. 96.39 Testimony of the survivors shows that on July 15, 1997 the AUC separated 27 individuals identified on a list as alleged auxiliaries, collaborators, or sympathizers of the FARC, and that these persons were tortured and dismembered by a member of the AUC known as the “Mochacabezas”. The paramilitary remained in Mapiripán from July 15 to 21, 1997, during which time they impeded free movement of the inhabitants of said municipality, and they tortured, dismembered, eviscerated and decapitated approximately 49 individuals and threw their remains into the Guaviare River. Furthermore, once the operation was completed, the AUC destroyed a major part of the physical evidence with the aim of obstructing the gathering of evidence. 96.40 The testimony shows that José Rolan Valencia, a dispatcher at the airport, was decapitated; Sinaí Blanco Santamaría was beaten and shot to death; Antonio María Barrera, aka “Catumare”, was tortured for several hours and then dismembered. Gustavo Caicedo Rodríguez and brothers Hugo Fernando Martínez Contreras and Diego Armando Martínez Contreras, 15 and 16 years old, respectively, were killed together with the Afrodescendant known as “Nelson”, in addition to José Alberto Pinzón López, Luis Eduardo Pinzón López, Jorge Pinzón López, and Enrique Pinzón López. Aside from these persons, an April 12, 2000 writ by the Deputy Public Prosecutor’s Office before the High Court of the Court Circuit states that “unfortunately there seem to be many more missing persons than those on whom we have information” and Álvaro Tovar Morales, Jaime Pinzón and Raúl Morales were killed at the place called La Cooperativa. The April 24, 2001 ruling of the Attorney General’s Office (infra para. 96.134), which dismissed Brigadier General Uscátegui, stated that between July 15 and 20, 1997, in the municipality of Mapiripán, an unidentified male individual and another individual by name Pacho, whose surname is unknown, were killed, and that a male whose surname is Morales but whose name is unknown, together with a female by name Teresa, surname unknown, were also killed at la Cooperativa, as well as “[...] an as yet indeterminate number of individuals.” 96.41 As a consequence of the modus operandi used to terrorize the population, carry out the massacre and destroy and get rid of the bodies of the victims, it was not possible for the authorities to fully identify them. For example, the paramilitary did not allow the Judge of Mapiripán to remove a body that had floated toward the port of “El Matadero”.