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and don Oscar that we need to speak with them and we need them to vacate this house.”65 It was also
denounced by Mrs. Luz Dary Ospina that the tenant moved out, and on July 8, 2003, the paramilitary
took over the house,66 which was torn down.67
130. Given these events, in August 2003 Luz Dary Ospina and her family moved to Bogotá.68
Later, she and her husband Oscar Tulio Hoyos Oquendo and their daughter Migdalia Andrea Hoyos
Ospina became beneficiaries of the Colombian Citizens’ Temporary Exit Program, and lived in
Montevideo, Uruguay, from August 20, 2004 to July 26, 2005.69 They returned to Colombia on July 28,
200570 and currently live in a neighborhood outside Comuna 13.71
131. In October 2003, Ms. Luz Dary Ospina applied to the Social Solidarity Network to be
listed in the Single Registry of the Displaced Population. Her application was denied on December 2,
2003.72 This decision was subsequently overturned by an order for listing in the Single Registry of
Displaced Persons, dated February 13, 2004.73
132. On September 27, 2006, a representative from the Comuna 13 Local Governance
Committee came to the home of Mrs. Luz Dary Ospina to “confirm the condition of the property as
65
Annex 16. Complaint filed with the Office of the Ombudsperson, dated July 18, 2003, claiming intra-urban
displacement and security for Luz Dary Ospina Bastidas and her family; Annex 17. Complaint filed with the Departmental
Prosecutor, City of Medellín, July 18, 2003, claiming intra-urban displacement and security for Luz Dary Ospina Bastidas and her
family.
66
Annex 16. Complaint filed with the Office of the Ombudsperson, dated July 18, 2003, claiming intra-urban
displacement and security for Luz Dary Ospina Bastidas and her family; Annex 17. Complaint filed with the Departmental
Prosecutor, City of Medellín, July 18, 2003, claiming intra-urban displacement and security for Luz Dary Ospina Bastidas and her
family.
67
Annexes 18-21. Photographs of rubble, condition of the interior, view of the exterior and frontal view of the house
of Luz Dary Ospina. Attachments to the petitioners’ communication in the matter of Miryam Eugenia Rúa Figueroa et al. –
Comuna 13 – dated November 25, 2011. The lot on which the house was built was sold on September 18, 2007. Annex 7.
Purchase Contract 091 of 2007. Annex to the petitioners’ communication in the matter of Miryam Eugenia Rúa Figueroa et al.
– Comuna 13 – dated November 22, 2011.
See also Annex 23. Declaration that Mrs. Blanca Inés Jiménez made for the IACHR, October 23, 2006; Annex 24.
Declaration that Mrs. María Noemi Morales made for the IACHR on October 23, 2006; Annex 25, Declaration that Mrs. Adriana
Patricia Suárez made for the IACHR, March 2, 2010; Annex 26. Declaration that Mrs. Marta Elena Higuita made for the IACHR,
March 2, 2010. All these statements are annexes to the petitioners’ communication in the matter of Miryam Eugenia Rúa
Figueroa et al. – Comuna 13 – November 22, 2011.
68
Original petition received in the matter of Luz Dary Ospina Bastidas – Comuna 13, October 27, 2004, paragraph 17.
69
Annex 27. Confirmation from the Coordinator of the Colombian Citizens’ Temporary Exit Program of the National
Social Ministry Secretariat, November 6, 2008, Attachment to the petitioners’ communication in the matter of Luz Dary Ospina
Bastidas – Comuna 13, March 25, 2010.
70
Annex 27. Confirmation from the Coordinator of the Colombian Citizens’ Temporary Exit Program of the National
Social Ministry Secretariat, November 6, 2008.
71
Communication from the petitioners in the matter of Miryam Eugenia Rua et al. – Comuna 13, November 22, 2011,
paragraph 27, p. 5.
72
Annex 28. Decision No. 11001-12791R of February 13, 2004. Attachment to the original petition in the matter of
Luz Dary Ospina Bastidas – Comuna 13, October 27, 2004.
73
Annex 28. Decision No. 11001-12791R of February 13, 2004.