-20- Mr. Escobar Duarte considers that the State should assist the victims of the events and improve his mother’s life. He thinks that the State has a responsibility because the trucks should not have been able to pass “the control[, namely] the military base.” Consequently, he requests the Court to acknowledge that “the paramilitary group passed by the base with the peasants and that the [State’s] error should not continue to be hidden.” The witness also said that he wants to know “why it happened and why they were taken, [because] if the [State] had not let those trucks pass, nothing […] would have happened. [However, the State] did not stop them, either when they entered [the village] or when they left.” f) Edilma de Jesús Monroy Higuita, sister-in-law of Juan Luis and José Leonel Escobar Duarte The witness lived in Pueblo Bello with her husband and children. The day of the facts, she was at home with her children and three nephews and nieces, all of them young children, and also with her brothers-in law, Juan Luis and José Leonel, and with Ovidio Suárez Carmona, a farm worker. In the evening, a neighbor told Edilma de Jesús Monroy Higuita that she should “run away [because] the ‘tangueros’ had arrived.” Consequently, the witness told her brothers-in-law “that they should run away because armed men had arrived[. Subsequently,] the ‘tangueros’ followed [them] and asked [her] where the men who had run from [her] house had gone and [said that] if she did not tell them, they would take [the women of the family]. At that moment, one by one, [her] brothers-in-law and the worker emerged from where they were hidden.” When the “tangueros” were taking away her brothers-in-law, “a niece of 9 or 10 years of age [...] clutched onto Juan Luis’ waist until they put them in the truck.” Mrs. Monroy Higuita stated that, after the events, all the family’s plans to go and run a business in Medellín changed, because they were left “without anything. After everything that happened, all their projects failed.” As a result, nowadays “they have very limited means and are unable to give the children the possibility of further schooling.” Also, following the death of her father-in-law, there were never any more family reunions or family celebrations. Following the facts, her sister-in-law “wandered through the countryside crying out ‘Juan Luis and Leonel, take me with you!’” Also, when this sister-in-law “saw armed men, she took fright and began to run. Now […] she sits there on the floor and makes dolls with mud from the swamp.” The witness asked the State “to see that justice is done and to repair the damage that continues up until today and [requested] the Court to help [them], because 16 years have elapsed without knowing what happened.” In her opinion, justice will be done when “those responsible who are still alive are punished.” g) Euclides Manuel Calle Álvarez, father of Jorge Fermín Calle Hernández At the time of the facts, the witness lived in Palmira, a hamlet in the municipality of Pueblo Nuevo in the Department of Córdoba, with his wife and their eight children. His son, Jorge Fermín Calle Hernández, lived in Pueblo Bello.