16 46. Witness, General Juan Salcedo Lora testified that he is the Inspector General of the Army; that subversion increased considerably in the Department of El Cesar as of 1987; that groups of paramilitaries are said to help the Government, but in reality they cause very serious problems; that an area of very grave conflicts is centered in San Alberto; that nineteen days before the disappearance of CaballeroDelgado there was a massacre of a group of judges, investigators, and justice officials, and the guerrillas commit all kinds of atrocities; that the M-19, on having submitted to the law, has seats on the councils and in the Chamber and the Senate; that its leader occupies the mayor's office in the capital of one of the departments, and the M-19 members have been sent on diplomatic missions; that the guerrillas take the uniforms from dead soldiers, and there have been cases in which army officials confused guerrillas with their own troops; that the guerrillas have become engaged in drug trafficking for their financing; that the Government has tried to protect human rights by instructing the Armed Forces, creating new institutions, and reforming the Penal Code; that his only relationship to the Caballero-Delgado Case has been in collecting documents; that the investigation has been very difficult, the investigators have run many risks, and the case is in the hands of the Public Prosecutor's Office and the lower courts; that he has offered total cooperation in the exhumation of the bodies if they are able to locate them; that by order of the Command of the Fifth Brigade, the Public Prosecutor's Office began six investigations on February 27; that prison cells for detained civilians in military bases have been prohibited since 1986 or 1987; that in San Alberto there are paramilitary groups, and in that zone there has been some crime committed by the army; that special forces are military organizations with training in counter-guerrilla techniques, and they wear uniforms and cannot operate in civilian clothes; that there have been cases of corruption in the public forces, and they have been processed; that the Rules of Disciplinary Regimen and the Military Penal Code have been in existence since the mid-1980s, and there is no violation of human rights that is not covered therein; that in the investigation of the Caballero Delgado Case some witnesses accused persons who later turned out to be innocent, and there are witnesses that disappear and do not come to appointments; that Captain Héctor Alirio-Forero was discharged from service by means of a disciplinary action; and that the military forces have about 200,000 men and the police have 115,000. V 47. Additionally, the following evidence was submitted to the Court during the hearing: a. Investigator Ricardo Vargas-López personally submitted the report which he had made to Doctor Víctor Enrique Navarro-Jiménez, Director of the Technical Corps of Investigation of the National Office of the Attorney General, dated September 28, 1992. (supra para. 37) In the report he states that Gonzalo Arias-Alturo told him: that he and GONZALO PINZON, after having performed their military service, collaborated with the army as informants. As such they wore camouflage army uniforms and integrated into patrols. On precisely the day of the disappearance of ISIDRO CABALLERO and his companion, he and RODRIGUEZ (sic) FONTECHA were with a patrol commanded by CAPTAIN HECTOR ALIRIO FOREROQUINTERO which was also made up of Sub-officers PLACIDO CHACONHERNANDEZ and NORBERTO BAEZ. It was this patrol that initially detained JAVIER PAEZ and that later received the detainees ISIDRO CABALLERO and