48 With regard to the executed and missing persons 96.48 While the exact number of persons detained, tortured, executed and/or missing in the Mapiripán Massacre has not been established, it has been accepted that they were approximately 49. It is possible that some of the missing or executed individuals were part of the floating population of the municipality.49 96.49 In this regard, the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General stated that […] after the Mapiripán Massacre was carried out [it was] Carlos Castaño Gil himself who, before the media and as a “victory report” state[d] that 49 individuals were eliminated in the paramilitary incursion in Mapiripán, making it possible to tentatively establish an estimate of the number of victims, a statement that was supported by that of doctor Leonardo Iván Cortés Novoa who asserted that approximately 26 individuals were killed and missing, together with the intelligence reports by members of the security forces who were carrying out covert operations in the area, stating that there were approximately 30, in addition to what has been asserted by paramilitary José Pastor Gaitán Ávila who says that he counted 23 persons murdered. This allows us to conclude that there was a large number of victims, no less than twenty. […]50 96.50 Carlos Castaño Gil, the head of the paramilitary group, in turn, expressed to the media that what happened in Mapiripán “was the greatest combat activity in all the history of the self-defense groups. We had never killed 49 members of the FARC or recovered 47 rifles [. …] There will be many more Mapiripanes […]”51. 96.51 Among the executed or missing persons, the identities of the following have been established: José Rolan Valencia, Sinaí Blanco Santamaría, Antonio María Barrera Calle, aka “Catumare”, Álvaro Tovar Muñoz, aka “el tomate”, Gustavo Caicedo Rodríguez, Jaime Riaño Colorado, brothers Enrique, Luis Eduardo, Jorge and José Alberto Pinzón López, as well as minors Hugo Fernando Martínez Contreras and Diego Armando Martínez Contreras.52 49 See decision on arrest warrant issued on May 20, 1999 by the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Human Rights Unit (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 35, page 497); indictment issued on April 7, 1999 by the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Human Rights Unit (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 27, page 3207 bis); April 12, 2000 order, issued by the Deputy Prosecutor’s Office before the High Court of the Court Circuit of Santafé de Bogotá (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 2, pages 65 and 66), and statement by Leonardo Iván Cortés Novoa, rendered before the Office of the Attorney General on August 21, 1997 (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 30, page 3399 and 3400). 50 See March 10, 2003 indictment, issued by the National Human Rights Unit (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 42, page 707). 51 See indictment issued on April 7, 1999 by the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Human Rights Unit (file with appendixes to the brief containing pleadings and motions, appendix 27, page 3207 bis). 52 See autopsy report of José Rolan Valencia (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 32, page 414); April 12, 2000 order, issued by the Deputy Prosecutor’s Office before the High Court of the Court Circuit of Santafé de Bogotá (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 2, pages 65 and 66); July 30, 2003 order, issued by the Unit of Deputy Public Prosecutors’ Offices before the High Court of Bogotá (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 39, page 554); report prepared by the Office of the Attorney General on April 6, 2005 (file with appendixes to the final pleadings submitted by the State, pages 4979 and 4980); death certificate of Sinaí Blanco Santamaría (file with evidence to facilitate adjudication provided by the representatives); March 10, 2003 indictment, issued by the National Human Rights Unit (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 42, page 693); June 18, 2003 conviction, issued by the Second Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Bogotá (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 4, page 116 b); testimony of Luz Mery Pinzón rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on March 7, 2005, and statements made as testimony before a