General’s Office;478 (e) considerations of the Eighth Criminal Court of the Bogota Special Circuit
in the judgment convicting Rito Alejo del Río Rojas;479 (f) reports of the Colombian
Ombudsman’s Office,480 and (g) reports prepared by international agencies481 and nongovernmental organizations.482
246. Meanwhile, the second version of the events is based on the following probative
elements: (a) testimony of members of the Armed Forces; 483 (b) some voluntary confessions of
paramilitaries demobilized under the special Justice and Peace procedure;484 (c) voluntary
confessions of guerrillas demobilized under the special Justice and Peace procedure;485 (d)
operations reports of the Armed Forces; (e) testimony of some inhabitants of the area, 486 and
(f) expert opinions, provided in writing or orally during the public hearing in this case.487
247. In order to decide whether or not the State is internationally responsible for the
paramilitary incursions in the communities of the Cacarica, the Court will proceed to analyze
whether, as indicated by the representatives and the Commission, in Colombia and/or in the
Justice on September 11 and 13, 2002 in proceeding No. 5767-5 (evidence file, folios 38794 to 38797, 41284, 41335
and 41336).
478
Cf. Prosecutor General’s Office, document and Powerpoint presentation “Operation Cacarica” (evidence file,
folios 19258 and 19263), The Prosecutor General’s Office, Dossier on the Elmer Cárdenas Bloc, Report No. 260 of June
25, 2012 (evidence file, folio 45156), 14th Special Prosecutor, National Human Rights and International Humanitarian
Law Unit, Indictment in file 2332 (evidence file, folio 8875).
479
Cf. Judgment in proceedings No. 2009-063, of the Eighth Criminal Court of the Bogota Special Circuit, August
28, 2012, convicting Rito Alejo del Río Rojas (evidence file, folios 44401 and 44402).
480
Cf. Ombudsman’s Office. Decision No. 025 of the Ombudsman on the massive human rights violations and
forced displacement in the Bajo Atrato region of Chocó, October 2002 (evidence file, folio 231)
481
Cf. Report by the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights on the Office in Colombia to the fiftyfourth session of the Commission on Human Rights. E/CN.4/1998/16, of 9 March 1998, para. 103 (evidence file, folio
752). See also: United Nations, Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General
on internally displaced persons submitted in accordance with Commission resolution 1999/47, E/CN.4/2000/83/Add.1
(evidence file, folios 712, 713 and 715).
482
Cf. Amnesty International. Colombia Return to hope - forcibly displaced communities of Urabá and Medio Atrato
region, June 2000 (evidence file, folio 1157); Secretariado Nacional de Pastoral Social Bogota, “Situación de Guerra and
de Violencia en el Departamento del Chocó 1996-2002,” November 2002, pp. 32, 40 and 76 (evidence file, folios 8773,
8777 and 8795).
483
Cf. Statements of: Colonel A.N.R. on December 27, 2001, Colonel E.L.F.C. on August 30, 2002, M.J.P.P. on
September 2, 2002, Colonel M.E.P.G. on September 2, 2002, Lieutenant Colonel P.A.A. on September 4, 2002,
Lieutenant Colonel F.C.O. on September 4, 2002, Lieutenant Colonel F.C.O. on September 5, 2002, Lieutenant Colonel
F.L.C. on September 9, 2002, and Lieutenant Colonel L.R.G.R. on September 9, 2002, C.O. pp 4, 6, 7, 89, 91, 92, 100,
101, 104, 105, 123, 124, 127, 140, 143 and 153 (evidence file, folios 41131. 41133, 41134, 41216, 41218, 41219,
41227, 41228, 41231, 41232, 41250, 41251, 41254, 41267, 41270 and 41275).
484
Cf. Voluntary confessions of Fredy Rendón Herrera on October 24, 2007, Diego Luis Hinestroza Moreno on April
29, 2010, Alberto García Sevilla on April 29, 2010, and Franklin Hernandez Seguro on August 6, 2008, in Statements of
candidates of the extinct AC Elmer Cárdenas Bloc, regarding the so-called “Operation Cacarica (Genesis) made before
the Prosecutor General’s Office, National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit (evidence file, folios
18373, 18210, 19187 to 19189 and 19243).
485
Cf. Interventions of Elda Neyis Mosquera Garcia (alias “Karina”), Danis Daniel Sierra Martínez (alias “Samir”),
Nicolas Montoya Atehortua (alias “Elkin”), Marcos Fidel Giraldo Torres (alias “Isaías” or “Garganta”) on January 29 and
February 5, 2013, in Report No. 015 of February 6, 2012, of the Technical Investigation Corps addressed to the 44th
Prosecutor delegated to the National Unity Court for Justice and Peace (evidence file, folios 16460 and ff.).
486
Cf. Statements made before the Prosecutor General’s Office, National Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law Unit, by J.E.V.R. on November 5, 2007, Luis Aristarco Hinestrosa on April 13, 2007, J.A.Q. on March
3, 2007, J.B.V.P. on December 19, 2002, and Margarita Vergara Serrana on December 11 (evidence file, folios 16997,
16998, 17341, 17229, 620, 641 and 642).
487
Cf. Statements made by Colonels Germán Castro and Luis Emilio Cardozo Santamaría, witness and expert
witness, respectively, proposed by the State, before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights during the public
hearing on February 11 and 12, 2013, and Affidavit dated January 31, 2013, prepared by María Paulina Leguizamón
Zarate, expert witness proposed by the State (evidence file, folios 15445 to 15449).
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