displacement, and conspiracy to commit a crime, and their preventive detention was retained.375 On September 28, 2012, the legal situation of William Manuel Soto Salcedo was decided, accusing him as possible co-perpetrator of the concurrent offenses of forced displacement, conspiracy to commit a crime, and aggravated homicide, and ordering his preventive detention.376 I.1.3 Other proceedings before the ordinary jurisdiction 181. In response to the President of the Court’s request that the State forward “[…] complete and updated information on the actual status of the investigations relating to the context of and the events following the displacement” (supra para. 13), evidence was receive concerning proceeding No. 1042.377 This proceeding against Luis Muentes Mendoza for the offense of homicide, forced displacement, conspiracy to commit a crime, and threats was opened on June 4, 2001, and is being processed before the 14 th Special Prosecutor of the UNDH-DIH. The Court notes that it has received very limited information on the evolution of proceeding No. 1042. The State merely provided information on a few procedural measures with the helpful evidence it forwarded, without sending any documentary support to authenticate these measures.378 I.2. Investigations under the special Justice and Peace procedure 182. According to the information presented, under Law 975 of 2005 or the Justice and Peace Law, 10 members of the Self-Defense Forces who demobilized stated that they had taken part in the events of this case, either in combined voluntary confessions379 or individually.380 Five of 375 Cf. Decision of the 14th Special Prosecutor, UNDH-DIH, of October 26, 2012 (evidence file, folios 18153, 18157, 18168 and 17848). 376 Cf. Decision of the 14th Special Prosecutor, UNDH-DIH, September 28, 2012 (evidence file, folio 17833). 377 The Court observes that the parties have referred to this proceeding with different numbers. Thus, in the file, it appears as proceeding 1410 (Cf. IACHR, Report No. 86/06, para. 30, folios 6962 and 7057) and also as proceeding No. 1042 (evidence file, folios 1392, 4796, 5021 and 5324). The investigation was opened based on the report made by the Human Rights Unit of the Public Prosecution Service, which forwarded documentation in which the Ombudsman’s Office and the NGO Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz, among others, report the presumed presence of barricades manned by members of the AUC in the places known as Tumaradó – jurisdiction of the Municipality of Riosucio, Chocó – on the Atrato River and in Sutatá, part of the Los Katios National Park, and the illegal logging operations in the Cacarica River valley. Also, an investigation is underway into the forced displacement that occurred in February 1997 by the communities located in the basins of the Cacarica, Salaquí and Truandó Rivers, in the municipality of Riosucio, caused by the presence of illegal armed groups and their threats. The displaced population took refuge in the urban area of the municipalities of Turbo, Ríosucio, and Bahía Cupica, among other places. Cf. Report dated February 4, 2013, presented by the State with complete and updated information on the status of the investigations related to the facts of the case (evidence file, folio 15492). 378 Cf. Report dated February 4, 2013, presented by the State with complete and updated information on the status of the investigations related to the facts of the case (evidence file, folios 15492 to 15500). 379 The combined voluntary confessions of the members of the AC Élmer Cárdenas Bloc include the statements of: Fredy Rendón Herrera (evidence file, folios 19156 to 19161, 19174, 19186, 19192 to 19199, 19201, 19203 to 19208, and 19212 to 19227); Julio César Arce Graciano (evidence file, folios 19186 and 19187, 19197, 19199 to 19201, 19204 to 19207, 19217, 19220, 19223, 19224 and 19226); Diego Luis Hinestroza Moreno (evidence file, folios 19185, 19222, 19224 and 19225); William Manuel Soto Salcedo (evidence file, folios 19177, 19200, 19211, 19215, 19221 and 19225.); Luis Muentes Mendoza (evidence file, folios 19174 to 19176, 19197, 19210 to 19212, 19215, 19221 to 19222 and 19224); Franklin Hernandez Seguro (evidence file, folios 19189 and 19190, 19213, 19222 and 19225), and Alberto García Sevilla (evidence file, folios 19187, 19222, 19224 and 19225). 380 The following demobilized paramilitaries have testified individually before the FGN-UNJP: Fredy Rendón Herrera, Cf. Video of voluntary confession by Fredy Rendón before the Justice and Peace prosecutor, of June 3, 2009, on DVD “Voluntary confessions of Raúl Emilio Hasbun Mendoza, Fredy Rendón Herrera; F-17, Justice and Peace, Medellín, Subject: (6) Rito Alejo del Río” (evidence file, folio 44538); Voluntary confession, October 24, 2007 (evidence file, folios 19229 to 19231); Voluntary confession, March 13, 2009 (evidence file, folios 19231 to 19234); Voluntary confession, November 26, 2009, on DVD “Operation Genesis 1. Élmer Cárdenas Bloc” (evidence file, folio 18456); Diego Luis Hinestroza Moreno, Voluntary confession, April 2, 2008 (evidence file, folios 19246 to 19247); Luis Muentes Mendoza, Voluntary confession, April 22, 2008 (evidence file, folios 19247 to 19249); William Manuel Soto Salcedo, Voluntary confession, July 9, 2008 (evidence file, folios 19235 to 19246); Franklin Hernandez Seguro, Voluntary 67

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