18 and woman arrived, and he asked if his godfather Andrés had left a mule, and the declarant answered no; that the Army group captured them, they sat down to talk, and at about four in the afternoon they were taken away; that he was dressed in red pants and a red shirt and she was in blue jeans and a black shirt; and that the persons in the group appeared to be from the National Army. When the witness was shown a photograph of Isidro Caballero-Delgado, she said that he was the person who had been detained. In her second statement she had added that one of the members of the military group was called "my Sergeant" by the others. Moreover, in her third statement the witness added that about ten minutes before the young man and woman arrived, an Army group had arrived and was sitting in a neighboring kiosk near the house. When the young man and woman left, another group of soldiers, who were on a hill about 120 meters from the house, came running down to catch up with them, and those that were in the house joined them. There were about fifteen that came down the hill and about four that were in the house. 49. In addition to confirming her earlier testimony the witness answered the questions put to her by the Government representative. She testified, among other things, that the person who came to her house differed from the photograph that they had shown her in that he did not have a mustache, and that the soldiers who came to her house had their faces covered with a red cloth. On being questioned by the Commission Delegate, she testified that the soldiers arrived at about noon, asked her if she had weapons of the guerrillas, and searched the house. 50. The Government has sent a copy of the testimony, rendered by Gonzalo Arias-Alturo on December 19, 1994 before the Assistant Attorney of the General Office for the Attention and Processing of Complaints of the Public Defender's Office; the declarant testified that on January 3, 1989, two professional counter-guerrilla groups were reunited to organize a special Delfín group, of which he was a member, and that group was attached to the Santander Battalion; that on January 9 they moved to the Morrison Base, and there General Alfonso Baca-Perillas, who coordinated operations in the zone, visited them; that the group was organized in San Alberto under the command of Captain Héctor Alirio Forero-Quintero; that the group moved toward Minas, which is a town on the highway to the coast between San Alberto and Morrison, and Captain Forero-Quintero told them that their mission was to capture a leader of the M-19 named Isidro Caballero-Delgado; that on February 6 they were told that Caballero-Delgado was in the zone and should not be detained in the presence of many people; that at about 4:30 Sergeant Vanegas advised them that he had talked with Caballero-Delgado, who told him that he was going to Bucaramanga; that at about 6:30 the same Sergeant said that CaballeroDelgado had boarded a COOPETRAN bus; that Captain Forero-Quintero set up a road block that detained the bus, and Luis Gonzalo Pinzón-Fontecha boarded the bus and ordered all the passengers to get out and present their identification; that when they identified Caballero-Delgado they detained him together with María Del Carmen Santana who was traveling with him, and they turned them over to the paramilitaries; that at about 11:30 pm he arrived at the Riverandia Farm with Captain Forero-Quintero and others and asked for Captain Jorge Enrique GarcíaGarcía; that they found him with Caballero-Delgado and María del Carmen Santana who were gagged with adhesive tape, and there was also another person detained; that they had pulled out part of Caballero-Delgado's mustache; that Captain Forero said to Segundo, the paramilitary commander whose family name he does not know, that he already knew what they had to do with the detainees; that Segundo called to Vicente Pinzón-Fontecha and Einer Pinzón-Pinzón to take the three detainees, and that the witness also went with them; that they cut off the legs of the detainees so

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