-16At the time of the facts, the witness had “a recently-built house and a plot where [he] grew corn, rice and yucca, and kept animals, together with another man[, but] [he] had to give them up. When the animals were taken away from the farm, it caused great distress.” Mr. Meza Acosta stated that one day he was passing through the parish of Juan Benítez and a commander of a paramilitary group [told him] to leave because “[…] something could happen to him, and the group would not hold itself responsible.” Therefore, he and his family moved to the village of San Vicente del Congo and have lived there ever since. Currently, the witness does nothing because he lives “far from arable land and is unable to work and, since then, [his] sons help [him]. These events caused considerable upheaval in his life, because [he] subsisted with what [he] had, the animals, the harvests; afterwards, matters got progressively worse […].” The witness stated that his wife was extremely sad because their “son was the person who was most attentive to the home; he was very obedient; he was very home-loving; he was the only son who helped [them ....], who was constantly there; this son was [their] support and hope for the future.” About five years ago, Mr. Meza Acosta “regained [his] will to see that those responsible should be punished; that the event should not remain unpunished. [He believes] that all injustices should be punished.” b) Leovigilda Villalba Sánchez, wife of Santiago Manuel González López Mrs. Villalba Sánchez lived with her husband and children in Pueblo Bello at the time of the facts. Her husband kept livestock and a general store; he also bought and sold grain. The day of the facts her “husband was asleep in the living room and they began to bang on the door until they broke it down[. T]hree men armed with longbarreled rifles entered, two of them in army uniforms and one in civilian dress. They turned round and told [her] husband to accompany them[. The witness] went out into the street and saw how they threw him on the ground and tied his hands behind him and [she] saw other people who were also lying on the ground. […] The armed men took [her] husband and told [the witness] to go back into the house.” The witness stated that “no one thought [the paramilitary forces] would enter the village because [they] felt protected by the roadblock set up by the Army. [They wondered] how the cars with armed men could pass if there was a permanent military roadblock where [everyone] was searched each time they passed.” Leovigilda Villalba Sánchez stated that the next of kin of those who had disappeared formed a committee and the morning after the facts, they went to the Police in San Pedro “to file a report that [their] next of kin had disappeared.” Next they went to the army base in San Pedro, where Lieutenant Rincón told them that “no one had passed by there; that perhaps they had gone somewhere else; he then said that it must have been the guerrilla [and] insisted that the roadblock had never been lifted.” Nevertheless, the witness considered that the State “is responsible because it let the trucks through when they entered [the village] and when they left.”