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95(33) The paramilitary group ransacked some houses, mistreating the occupants
and took an unknown number of men from their homes to the central square of the
village. Some members of the armed group entered the church in front of this square
and ordered the women and children to remain within and the men to leave and go
to the square. There, they placed the men face down on the ground and, with the list
in their hands, chose 43 men who were tied up, gagged and obliged to get into the
two trucks used to transport the members of the paramilitary group.60
95(34) Some members of the paramilitary group set fire to a store and a home,
allegedly the property of a man called “Asdrúbal,” who they had been unable to
capture.61
95(35) The following individuals were abducted: José del Carmen Álvarez Blanco,
Fermín Agresott Romero, Víctor Argel Hernández, Genor Arrieta Lora, Cristóbal
Manuel Arroyo Blanco, Diómedes Barrera Orozco, Urías Barrera Orozco, Jorge Fermín
Calle Hernández, Jorge Arturo Castro Galindo, Benito Genaro Calderón Ramos, Juan
Miguel Cruz (or Cruz Ruiz), Ariel Dullis Díaz Delgado, Camilo Antonio Durango
Moreno, César Augusto Espinoza Pulgarín, Wilson Uberto Fuentes Miramón, Andrés
Manuel Flórez Altamiranda, Santiago Manuel González López, Carmelo Manuel
Guerra Pestana, Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Arrieta, Lucio Miguel Úrzola Sotelo, Ángel
Benito Jiménez Julio, Miguel Ángel López Cuadro, Mario Melo Palacio, Carlos Antonio
Melo Uribe, Juan Bautista Meza Salgado, Pedro Antonio Mercado Montes, Manuel de
Jesús Montes Martínez, José Encarnación Barrera Orozco, Luis Carlos Ricardo Pérez,
Miguel Antonio Pérez Ramos, Raúl Antonio Pérez Martínez, Benito José Pérez
Pedroza, Elides Manuel Ricardo Pérez, José Manuel Petro Hernández, Luis Miguel
Salgado Berrío, Célimo Arcadio Hurtado, Jesús Humberto Barbosa Vega, Andrés
Manuel Peroza Jiménez, Juan Luis Escobar Duarte, José Leonel Escobar Duarte,
Ovidio Carmona Suárez, Ricardo Bohórquez Pastrana and Jorge David Martínez
Moreno. Of these, the first 37 are disappeared, and Andrés Manuel Peroza Jiménez,
Juan Luis Escobar Duarte, José Leonel Escobar Duarte, Ovidio Carmona Suárez,
Ricardo Manuel Bohórquez Pastrana and Jorge David Martínez Moreno were
murdered (infra para. 95(75)). Manuel de Jesús Montes Martínez, José Encarnación
Villalba Sánchez and Edilma de Jesús Monroy Higuita on August 16, 2005 (file of statements made before
or authenticated by notary public, folios 2700, 2701, 2705, 2711, 2738, 2742, 2716, 2725 and 2741).
60
Cf. ordinary judgment of the Medellín Regional Court of May 26, 1997 (file of attachments to the
application brief, tome II, attachment C2, folio 344, 345 and 389); judgment of the Sentencing Chamber
of the Tribunal Nacional of December 30, 1997 (file of attachments to the application brief, tome II,
attachment C3, folios 419, 451 and 463); decision of the Office of the Delegate Attorney for the defense of
human rights of November 27, 1991 (file of attachments to the answer to the application, attachment 2,
folio 1685); ruling of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Attorney General’s Office of February 9, 2001 (file of
attachments to the brief with the answer to the application, folio 1739); testimonies of Mariano Manuel
Martínez and Ángel Emiro Jiménez Romero before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held
on September 19, 2005, and statements made before notary public (affidavits) by Leovigilda Villalba
Sánchez, María Cecilia Ruiz de Álvarez, Edilma de Jesús Monroy Higuita, Eliécer Manuel Meza Acosta and
Benildo José Ricardo Herrera on August 16, 2005 (file of statements made before or authenticated by
notary public, folios 2700, 2701, 2705, 2710, 2711, 2716 and 2725).
61
Cf. ordinary judgment of the Medellín Regional Court of May 26, 1997 (file of attachments to the
application brief, tome II, attachment C2, folio 344, 345 and 365), and judgment of the Sentencing
Chamber of the Tribunal Nacional of December 30, 1997 (file of attachments to the application brief, tome
II, attachment C3, folio 450).
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