12 Judicature, and such offices have carried out several activities.14 During the hearing, the State repeated what it mentioned before, in particular that 30 people were joined to the proceedings, 18 were accused and 13 were convicted and it also emphasized the progress made during the year 200815. Furthermore, the State mentioned that the Office of Public Prosecutors has carried out several activities related to the instant case.16 Regarding the lack of orders to formally join state agents to the proceedings, as alleged by the representative (infra Considering clauses 28), the State insisted that it does not want for any of the responsible to elude justice, but it is neither interested in giving rise to the expectation that hundreds of military officers participated in this massacre and shall be prosecuted. In its last report, it mentioned that the association of other law enforcement members "is a line of investigation that it is constantly dealt with", but that "up to the date, there is no sufficient evidence to allow analyzing such aspects in depth". Furthermore, it mentioned that by the application of the Justice and Peace Act [Ley de Justicia y Paz], some of the demobilized officers have referred, in their preliminary interviews, to the Mapiripán Massacre, information that is useful to address other lines of investigation within the proceeding conducted at the Human Rights Unit and at the end of the proceeding in order to establish the way the facts occurred and determine other alleged responsible. Lastly, in relation to the death of the demobilized paramilitary officers, the State pointed out that there are sufficient protection plans and programs, but that none of the paramilitary officers associated with this obligation has expressed fear for his safety or asked for protection. 28. That the representatives confirmed the meetings held within the framework of the M.O.S., but they emphasized the delay of the Attorney General’s Office in informing on the work plan and the status of the investigations. They claimed that most of the proceedings have been expedited by the plaintiff and they also expressed their concern about the changes of prosecutors, though they acknowledged the work done by the Attorney General's Office. They also criticized that, after ten years of the beginning of the investigation, the State has not taken specific actions to identify and associate all the responsible, specially the highranking military officers mentioned in the Judgment of the Court, in spite of the fact that the paramilitary officers named, at the hearings of Justice and Peace, several officers of the National Army as co-perpetrators. The State has failed to comply with the duty to investigate, within a reasonable time, and to publish the results of the investigation. During the hearing, they acknowledged the progress made by the Human Rights Unit, given the fact that several paramilitary officers were joined to this proceeding (simultaneously with the application of the Justice and Peace Act), Messr. Salvatore Mancusso in particular They specifically referred to four critical 14 The State mentioned the following progress made: Creation of a criminal court in Bogotá so that the Judge of the Specialized Circuit "is able to exclusively take up the case of the Mapiripán Massacre"; condemnatory judgment delivered by the Third Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit against three persons for the crime of aggravated murder, kidnapping with extortion, conspiracy to commit crime and terrorism; the order to formally join eight people to the criminal proceedings; the condemnatory judgment against Hernán Orozco for aggravated murder and kidnapping and of Jaime H. Uscátegui for forgery of public document, as well as the appeal filed by the Attorney General’s Office regarding the last judgment , the accusation for several crimes against Salvatore Mancusso and another alleged paramilitary. 15 Furthermore, alleged former paramilitary officers have been associated with the investigation and arrest warrants have been issued against them; the legal situation of two paramilitary officers was defined, who opted for "plea bargain"; the accusation against Salvatore Mancuso was solved and two condemnatory judgments against three former paramilitary officers were delivered, in which they were sentenced to serve a period of forty years imprisonment. 16 Namely: 42 testimonies, 3 judicial inspections, requests of photo file, 42 commissions sent to the area, 3 judicial inspections of other court files.