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presence on the indigenous reservation, as requested by the community. The
Public Defender of Sierra Nevada has also maintained the presence of two
“Community Defenders” [Defensores Comunitarios]. Situations that have
given rise to risks to the Community have been managed by the Public Force
and National Police;
ii.
the State has implemented individual and collective measures, in
Bogotá as well as in Valledupar, to safeguard the life and the personal
integrity of members of the community, such as: the temporary relocation of
21 persons; the assignment of Avantel communication services to 19 persons
and mobile phones to 10 persons; the allocation of 4 satellite communication
devices to the communities; ground transportation for more than 10 persons;
airline tickets for 25 persons to temporarily leave a risk area; the provision of
armored protection for the headquarters office of the Indigenous House, and
the implementation of security councils and an Indigenous Community
Council [Consejo Comunal Indígena] with participation of the President of the
Republic. Additionally, as of May 25, 2005, the Ministry of Justice and the
Interior [Ministerio del Interior y Justicia] had arranged airline tickets in order
to relocate the Mamos – spiritual leaders – to Bogotá;
iii.
the State had adopted measures relative to the protection of health
and food security for the community, and
iv.
the detention of Kankaumo community members accused of affiliation
to the illegal armed group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
does not constitute a response or retribution for the attack with explosives
allegedly committed by the FARC on August 1, 2005 in Ataquez that killed 14
national police officers; said detentions were not carried out as reprisals but
were ordered in the context of a criminal proceeding with corresponding legal
safeguards.
b)
regarding to the investigations concerning the events that motivated the
adoption of the present provisional measures and with an aim to identify those
responsible and, when appropriate, to impose the corresponding sanction, that:
i.
from 1986 to October of 2004, the Technical Investigative Body
[Cuerpo Técnico de Investigación] established that one hundred and seventy
five (175) members of the Kankuamo ethnic group seemed to have been
killed by illegal armed groups, such as the United Self-Defense Forces of
Colombia, the ELN and the FARC, that operate within the region;
ii.
as of November 2004, preliminary investigations were still open
regarding the alleged genocide of the Kankuamo community, under case
number 162690 of May 5, 2004;
iii.
as of April 4, 2006, the Office of International Affairs within the
Attorney General’s Office [Dirección de Asuntos Internacionales de la Fiscalía
General de la Nación], the Presidential Program and the Office of Human
Rights within the Ministry of Foreign Relations [Dirección de Derechos
Humanos del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores] were monitoring and
tracking the number of criminal investigations concerning incidents that affect
members of the Kankuamo community, and
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