17 MARIA DEL CARMEN SANTANA from another detachment in the zone, to later kill them and bury them in a common grave, in a site know by ARIAS-ALTURO, who promised to identify it. b. The testimony rendered by Gonzalo Arias-Alturo on November 24, 1994 before the Regional Prosecutor of Barranquilla, submitted by the Agent of Colombia. Arias-Alturo testified that there was a meeting of officials at the Morrison Base presided over by General Alfonso Baca-Perillas, Commander of the Army's Fifth Brigade; that there it was decided to authorize Captain Héctor Alirio Forero-Quintero and another captain, whose name he does not remember, to organize a group, of which Arias-Alturo was a member, to capture Isidro Caballero-Delgado; that dressed as guerrillas they stopped a bus and ordered the passengers to get out; that when Caballero-Delgado showed his identification card to Captain Forero he detained him; that the rest of the passengers got back on the bus, but a woman who was with him also stayed; that they turned the two over to the paramilitaries of the Riverandia Farm, who tied them up and put them in a small truck; that they tortured and killed them, and that Gonzalo and Einer offered to dig a grave; that he heard Captain Forero say that Caballero-Delgado and María del Carmen Santana were in a meeting with the guerrillas; that he could find a young man who knows the burial site because he buried them, and that man is Einer, since Gonzalo is dead; that the order came from the Morrison Base, and that the person who fired two shots to the head of each of the detainees is a paramilitary by the name of Segundo who administers the Riverandia Farm; that the other captain who went with them is named Jorge Enrique García-García; that the operation was coordinated by the Fifth Brigade of the Army; and that they did not detain Caballero-Delgado and María del Carmen Santana in the farm of a peasant woman, they were only checking to see if they were or were not to be found in the area. The troop found out that they were there, because an informant said they were in the area at a meeting in a school, that was located above the farm where they stopped them. They stopped them to verify his identity and to find out where he was going. c. Witness Juan Salcedo-Lora brought 35 slides and thirteen photographs related to the investigation into the disappearance of Caballero-Delgado and María del Carmen Santana. The slides and photographs were meant to demonstrate, among other things, that on occasion the guerrillas use military uniforms. d. Witness Hernando Valencia-Villa brought Report III on Human Rights, Colombia 1993-1994, issued by the Attorney General of the Nation. 48. At the Commission's request the Court appointed Colombian jurist, Bernardo Gaitán-Mahecha as expert to take the testimony of Rosa Delia Valderrama in Colombia, who due to her poor state of health could not travel to the seat of the Court (supra para. 16). On that occasion, they read her the statements that she had given to the Municipal Representative of San Alberto, the Second Mobile Court of Criminal Investigation of the Judicial District of Valledupar on March 18, 1989, and the National Sub-director of Criminal Investigation and the Technical Corps of the Judicial Police on January 22, 1992. She confirmed them in their entirety. In the first statement, she had testified that on February 7 [1989], at approximately one in the afternoon, an Army group dressed in camouflage was on her farm; that a young man

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