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p)
From April 10, 2002 to the first week in May, no public service vehicle,
whether transporting passengers or freight, entered or left San José de
Apartadó. Neither the teachers nor the health staff have been able to
enter the hamlet. Those who are seriously ill “must be taken down on
mule back and even on oxen” to receive medical attention. Certain
products such as “primitivo” (a type of small banana) have begun to
go to waste.
q)
On April 16, 2002, members of the Peace Community attempted to
hire a truck to transport harvests at risk of going to waste due to the
blockade. It was not possible to hire the truck due to death threats
against the staff of the trucking companies. Those threats also caused
the disintegration of the truckers’ Association in San José.
r)
On that same day, April 16, a third driver, Gonzalo Trejo, who drove
on the route between Apartadó and San José, was murdered.
s)
On April 29, 2002, armed men in combat fatigues, linked to the
“covert military strategy”, murdered Fernando Puerta, who was
involved in community work in the Peace Community.
t)
On May 1, 2002 farmers Darío Graciano Usuga, Alexander Graciano
and Samuel Graciano were murdered in the roadside community of El
Porvenir, in the district of San José de Apartadó, during a “covert
military action, carried out by at least 200 men with shoulder weapons
in combat fatigues, some with armbands of the ‘Autodefensas Unidas
de Colombia’, AUC.”
u)
On May 4, 2002, 200 men involved in the “clandestine military
strategy” entered the hamlet of La Unión. Most of the inhabitants fled
and the armed civilians searched the homes of the inhabitants of this
Community, taking food, clothing, and several animals.
v)
On May 6, 2002, Moisés Sepúlveda Puerta disappeared while going
toward San José de Apartadó, after leaving a store in Apartadó.
7.
The April 26, 2002 Order of the President, the first operative paragraph of
which decided:
To summon the Inter-American Commission and the State to a public hearing to be held
at the seat of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on June 13, 2002, at 15:00
hours, so as to hear their viewpoints on recent events in the Peace Community of San
José de Apartadó, according to reports by the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights.
8.
The June 13, 2002 Order of the Court, the first operative paragraph of which
decided:
To commission the President, Judge Antônio A. Cançado Trindade, the Vice-President,
Judge Alirio Abreu Burelli, Judge Hernán Salgado Pesantes and Judge Sergio García
Ramírez to attend the public hearing summoned for [that same day] at the seat of the
Court, with respect to provisional measures ordered in the instant case.
9.
The public hearing on the instant provisional measures, held at the seat of the
Inter-American Court on June 13, 2002. There appeared at that hearing: