27 They say that the Caño Seco, Tamboral, Teguerré communities are the ones that have been 83 bombed. 130. On February 27, 1997, a paramilitary group entered the Puente América hamlet and told the population that they would have to move out of the village for three months, that they should leave for Turbo. They set fire to 32 houses, causing the forced displacement of the population to Bocas del 84 Atrato. There they installed a checkpoint where they searched people and then sent them to Turbo 85 "and said that the police would pick them up and take them to the Turbo Stadium, as so it was". In this regard a witness stated yes, there were bombings on the Cacarica ridge, also known as the catios (sic) park, the planes bombed that part, and with the people so quickly frightened, this bombing lasted like two hours, this 86 was on the 27th, first it was the paramilitaries, then the bombings. . 131. On February 27, 1997, ACCU paramilitaries entered the Bocas del Limón community and held the health worker and obliged her to lie on the ground, pointing her out as a collaborator with the guerillas. They called the community together in the community hut and ordered them to leave 87 immediately for a period of two weeks. They told them not to be afraid as the Police would be waiting for them in Turbo. Meanwhile, other men set fire to a food store of the community's Women's Committee 88 and two homes, ransacking the community's belongings. In the afternoon, they ordered the population 89 to move out to Turbo within 24 hours, and warned them that after them "the headhunters were coming." 132. The report on "Operation Genesis" issued by Brigadier General Rito Alejo Del Río, commander of the 17th Army Brigade, stresses that the operation was put into effect, and it involved an helicopter attack by BAFER-1 based at Tamboral, aided by ALFA and BETA by CACOM-1 and ALFA and CHARLIE missions with 83 Annex 8 A. Statement of Margarita Bergara Serrana before the Special Commission of the UDH on December 11, 2002. Annex 14 of the petitioners’ allegations on the merits received on March 10, 2008. Cf. Annex 41. Salaquí, Tamboral and Tequerré. Tutela judgment of the first instance judge of the Turbo Civil Circuit of May 29, 1997, in favor of eight plaintiffs. Annex to the original petition of June 1, 2004. 84 Annexes 8 and 8 A. Statement of Marco Antonio Cuesta Mosquera and Margarita Bergara Serrana before the Special Commission of the UDH and DIH on December 11, 2002. Annexes 12 and 14 of the petitioners’ allegations on the merits received on March 10, 2008. 85 Annex 6. Statement of José Bermudis Valderrama Perea before the Special Commission of the UDH and DIH of December 19, 2002. Annex 12 of the petitioners’ allegations on the merits received on March 10, 2008. Cf. Annex 5. Statement of Cruz Manuel Ramírez before the Special Commission of the UDH and DIH on December 11, 2002, Annex 3 to the petitioners' brief dated March 10, 2008. 86 Annex 8. Statement of Marco Antonio Cuesta Mosquera before the Special Commission of the UDH and DIH of December 19, 2002. Annex 12 of the petitioners’ allegations on the merits received on March 10, 2008. Cf. Annex 5. Statement of Cruz Manuel Ramírez before the Special Commission of the UDH and DIH on December 11, 2002, Annex 3 to the petitioners' brief dated March 10, 2008 87 Annex 33. Prequalifying allegations presented before the Prosecutor General's Office in proceedings 5767, by Leonardo Jaimes Marín, legal representative of Father Javier Giraldo, requesting an indictment decision be laid against General (ret.) Rito Alejo del Río Rojas for crimes against humanity, p.14. Annex 9 to petitioners' allegations on the merits of March 10, 2009. 88 Annex 3. CAVIDA: We are part of the land of this Land: Recollections of a Civilian Resistance, Cacarica, 2002, p. 95. Annex 1 of the petitioners’ allegations on the merits received on March 10, 2008. 89 See in the same sense: Annex 5. Statement of Cruz Manuel Ramírez, before the Special Commission of the UDH on December 11, 2002, Annex 3 to the petitioners' brief dated March 10, 2010; Annex 6. Statement of José Bermudis Valderrama Perea before the Special Commission of the UDH of December 19, 2002, Annex 4 to the petitioners’ brief dated March 10, 2008. In 1998, the Office of the UNHCHR in Colombia reported that it had received complaints indicating that in many cases of paramilitary raids against the peasant population, these were preceded by members of the army passing through and recommending to the inhabitants to leave the area, "because after us the headhunters are coming". Cf. Annex 14. U.N. Report of the UNHCHR of the Colombia Office, 54th Period of Sessions of the Commission for Human Rights, E/CN.4/1998/16, of March 9, 1998, para. 34. At: http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1998.16.En?Opendocument. Annex 4. Letter of the Displaced Peasant Communities of Riosucio - Chocó to the Administrative Directorate of Human Rights of March 20, 1997. Annex 13 to the petitioners’ brief of March 10, 2008.