47 disappearance.256 Regarding Major Guzmán, the decision noted that “no administrative act or reason was found during the on-site judicial inspection visits conducted (…) that terminated the Águila Task Force” and therefore “his liability would go up to the incidents occurring on June 27, 1996.” It was noted that “based on the examination of the testimony received (…) serious indications that involve his responsibility cannot be deduced, inasmuch as circumstances of time, mode and place in which said member of the National Army participated in the commission of even one of the abductions cannot be inferred from them [the indications] (…) much less is there (…) any evidence that seriously, concretely and directly implicates him either by action or omission in the commission of the disappearances.” With regard to Ramón Isaza, it was determined that “there is evidence inferring his criminal liability” and that he would be “one of the master minds” of the abductions of the alleged victims and of the homicide of Javier Giraldo.257 150. On December 18, 2003, the attorney for the victims in the proceedings requested the UNDH to gather several different pieces of evidence.258 151. On April 19, 2004, the UNDH issued a decision ordering that several pieces of evidence be gathered, some of which had been requested by the legal representative of the victims’ families.259 The motion filed by Major Carlos Guzmán’s defense attorney to close the investigation was also denied. In said decision to deny the motion, the need to gather the remaining evidence and the complexity of the investigation were noted.260 152. On November 18, 2004, the judicial investigators mentioned reports from the village to the effect that the municipal ombudsman of Cocorná at that time had sought refuge in Australia “out of fear of being murdered as had happened to (…) the ombudsman of El Carmen de Viboral”. The reports 256 Charges were brought for the following crimes against the following victims: i) Aggravated simple abduction of Óscar Zuluaga, Miguel Cardona and Juan Cardona; ii) Simple abduction of Aníbal Castaño, alias Fredy, María Irene Gallego, Juan Carlos Gallego, Jaime Mejía, Hernando de Jesús Castaño and Octavio Gallego; and aggravated homicide of Javier de Jesús Giraldo. 257 Annex 13. Judicial decision of the National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, signed by Special Prosecutor Lilia Hernández Ramírez, dated April 30, 2003. Case file No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 9. Folios 251-302. Compact disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 258 Annex 62. Submission Rdo. 233 from Liliana Uribe, court appointed representative of the victims’ families as a civil party, National Civil Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated December 18, 2003. Annex to petitioners’ submission received in the IACHR on February 1, 2007. The evidence requested by them was: i) approving the report of the Office of the Attorney General of August 10, 1996, which posits the existence of a paramilitary group led by Ramón Isaza and which refers to the collaboration that there has been between units of the army and persons linked to the national police; ii) summoning to testify Arley de Jesús Arango, soldier who admitted being an escort of Ramón Isaza; iii) summoning to testify Ilga Ruiz Angarita, sectional prosecutor in charge of the municipality of El Santuario, who processed Irene Gallego on June 28, 1996 and subsequently handed her over to the FTA; and iv) summoning to testify family members of the victims. 259 Annex 24. Decision of the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, signed by Special Prosecutor Lilia Hernández, dated April 19, 2004. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 41-45. Compact disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 260 Annex 24. Decision of the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, signed by Special Prosecutor Lilia Hernández, dated April 19, 2004. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 41-45. Compact disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010.