64 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. iv) Santiago Martínez, who lost his farm;148 Santiago Serna, who lost his home;149 Vicente Posada, who lost his home, which was set on fire;150 Amado Jaramillo Cano, who lost his home,151 and Servando Antonio Areiza, who lost 4 “animals” and his home.152 Theft and herding of livestock 125(82) Under threat of death, the paramilitary group obliged 17 residents of the area to herd the stolen livestock to various place for 17 days. The herdsmen received no remuneration of any type for their work. 125(83) The following persons were forced to herd livestock: Francisco Osvaldo Pino Posada, Omar Alfredo Torres Jaramillo, Rodrigo Alberto Mendoza Posso, Noveiri Antonio Jiménez Jiménez, Milciades de Jesús Crespo, Ricardo Barrera, Gilberto Lopera, Argemiro Echavarría, José Luis Palacio, Román Salazar, William Chavaría, Libardo Carvajal, Eduardo Rua, Eulicio García, Alberto Lopera, Tomás Monsalve and Felipe Gómez. 125(84) During the incursion, the paramilitary group stole from 800 to 1,200 head of livestock (horses, mules and cattle) belonging to several farms in the area. The livestock was taken first to a place known as “La Planta,” which is 5 minutes by foot from the urban center of Puerto Valdivia, and eventually embarked for La Caucana, a district of the municipality of Tarazá. The livestock was moved using the highway leading to the Atlantic Coast. 125(85) Members of the Army knew about the theft and transfer of the livestock and even imposed a curfew on the population, closing all the places that were open in the evening in the district so that the livestock could be moved without witnesses, using the public roads; some soldiers also benefited, because they were given cattle for their own consumption. 125(86) Agents of the armed forces not only acquiesced to the acts perpetrated by the paramilitary group, but also participated and collaborated directly at times. Indeed, the participation of State agents in the armed incursion was not limited to 148 Cf. statement made confidentially before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 18, 2005 (file of affidavits and the respective observations, folio 5103). 149 Cf. statement made confidentially before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 11, 2005 (file of affidavits and the respective observations, folio 5109). 150 Cf. statement made confidentially before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 18, 2005 (file of affidavits and the respective observations, folio 5104); and statement made confidentially before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 18, 2005 (file of affidavits and the respective observations, folio 5117). 151 Cf. testimony given by Luis Humberto Mendoza Arroyave before the Antioquia Administrative Court on April 3, 2000 (file of attachments to the application, tome II, Appendix C40, folio 9096); and list from the Official Land Register of the Department of Antioquia, Municipality of Ituango, of October 18, 2005 (file of useful evidence presented by the representatives of the alleged victims, folio 5699). 152 Cf. statement made confidentially before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 17, 2005 (file of affidavits and the respective observations, folio 5092).

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