74 X ARTICLES 6 AND 7 OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION (FREEDOM FROM SLAVERY AND RIGHT TO PERSONAL LIBERTY) IN RELATION TO ARTICLE 1(1) THEREOF The Commission’s arguments 139. The Inter-American Commission did not claim the alleged violation of Article 6 of the American Convention. 140. Regarding the alleged violation of Article 7 of the American Convention, the Commission indicated that: (a) The State had accepted the Commission’s claims in the application concerning the violation of Article 7 to the detriment of Jairo Sepúlveda, Marco Aurelio Areiza and Rosa Areiza (supra paras. 19); and (b) The Commission did not submit arguments in relation to the possible violation of the right to personal liberty enshrined in Article 7 of the Convention to the detriment of the alleged victims indicated by the representatives in their requests and arguments brief. The representatives’ arguments 141. that: In relation to Article 6 of the American Convention the representatives argued (a) The paramilitary group obliged some of the inhabitants of El Aro to collect and transfer the horses, mules and cattle that were stolen from the inhabitants of this district, for about 17 days, in order to “ensure the arbitrary appropriation of this property”; (b) 17 persons were obliged to herd the livestock; (c) The herding “was carried out against their will and at the risk of being killed if they opposed it”; (d) “The certain and imminent threat to life looming over the peasant farmers of El Aro, following the murders committed by the paramilitary group that raided the district, meant that [the herdsmen] understood that if they did not accept the task imposed on them, it would result in a death sentence such as that suffered by several other villagers”; (e) The military authorities of Puerto Valdivia did not prevent the paramilitary group from obliging the inhabitants of El Aro to carry out forced labor. Furthermore, members of the Army knew about the theft of the livestock and, instead of protecting the peasants, they supported and promoted the imposition of forced labor and imposed a curfew to facilitate the theft of the livestock; and