allow him to enter. That night the police had distributed a press release on the
streets saying that they had “caused seven casualties of subversive guerrilla
fighters,” one of whom was her brother. This made her very angry and fearful
because they were told that now they were going to harass them to make them keep
quiet. The day of her brother’s vigil, there were policemen conducting surveillance in
the city and there was a curfew, despite which the people came to be with them. In
the following days they noticed the presence of policemen; they were very fearful
and anguished, and this lasted several months. This situation affected her at work.
One of the harassments suffered was that her brother was detained by members of
the “SIJIN” while in Mocoa for Hernán Javier’s funeral, and they asked him whether
he was studying to become a guerrilla fighter. Her sister Doris was detained because
she was distributing leaflets in connection with the facts, and at the “SIJIN” they told
her that this was subversive propaganda. Her mother became hypertense and
diabetic, and the medicine was not supplied by the health program. Hernán Javier’s
daughter cried a lot and they did not know how to tell her that their father had died.
The witness feels very indignant due to impunity of the facts, as if they had actually
occurred the way described by the police, and even more so that her family has
suffered so much intimidation. Since then, she has felt insecure.
She was never summoned to testify before any official. She hopes that through the
Court it will be possible to attain punishment of those responsible and for the truth of
the facts to be made known, that they were not guerrilla fighters.
h)
Doris Silvia Cuarán Muchavisoy, a sister of Hernán Javier Cuarán
Muchavisoy.
She heard of the facts the same day they happened. The police would not allow
anyone to enter the hospital, where they confirmed that her brother was dead.
People did not respect the curfew and accompanied them at the vigil. There were
community meetings to analyze what had happened, roughly two months after the
facts, but her next of kin did not attend out of fear. When she distributed leaflets
with information on those meetings, they took her to the “SIJIN”, where a lieutenant
told her that the police did not do the things stated in the leaflets and that her
brother was a guerrilla fighter. When the people came to protest her detention, they
set her free. The police watched the family house, shot guns and carried out other
intimidating acts. There are people outside the town who think that they were
guerrilla fighters because the facts have not been clarified.
She has never been summoned to testify nor have they come looking for her. She is
afraid for her children, nephews and grandchildren due to this statement before the
Court. To avoid repetition of the facts, it would be necessary for the police force to
be restructured, for its members not to act that way.
Impunity has caused
irreparable damage to the whole family and worsening of her mother’s health.
i)
Umberto Enrique Cuarán Muchavisoy, a brother of Hernán Javier Cuarán
Muchavisoy.
The day of the facts, after the wife of his brother Hernán Javier stated her concern,
she went out with her brother Pablo Isidoro to find out where he was. They went to
the hospital. There the police did not allow them to enter, and they hit her brother
Pablo. During the vigil, they were told that there were plainclothes policemen, who
also filmed the funeral. The family was watched by the police day and night.
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