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Comuna 13 since Operation Orión.83 They reported, inter alia, murders alleged to have been committed
by paramilitary groups in places within Comuna 13 that were heavily controlled by the Army.84
136. Four days later, on November 12, 2002, Ms. Mosquera, Ms. Naranjo and Ms. Yarce were
detained in a joint army/police operation conducted without an arrest warrant.85 The arrest report
prepared by the Squad Commander, Corporal Third Class Torres Monterrosa Pilides of the Colombian
Military Forces (National Army, Fourth Brigade), describes the detention as follows:
I hereby deliver Mrs. Ana Teresa Yarce (…), Mery del Socorro Naranjo Jimenez (…) and María del
Socorro Mozquera (…) for their appearance before the Prosecutor on duty. The three women
were apprehended as I was on a military patrol of the area in the Beléncito, La Torre sector, on
orders from Mr. S.V. Hernandez. Reports had already been received from people living in the
sector that the three women were militia members. The National Police’s assistance was
requested due to the fact that the three women were in the process of changing residence,
knowing that they were on the verge of being caught. The operation went to each residence and
the arrests were made. The police searched the homes. By 3:30 p.m. the operation got as far as
La Torre. Tank support was requested. They proceeded as far as the command post for Mr.
Dario de Jesus Castaño Toro -- I.D. 71.678.364-- and Mr. Diomer Castañeda. The arrests were
made by the Bombarda 2 anti-guerrilla unit under the command of Corporal Third Class Torres
Monterrosa Pilides and the police agents who conducted the searches, as our units are not
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manned for searches…
137. On November 12, 2002, the three women were brought to the Prosecutor’s Office.87
According to the records, the women were arrested and implicated in the investigations on the basis of
information supplied by people living in the sector, specifically Mr. Diomer Castañeda and Dario de Jesús
Castaño Toro, who had reported that the three were “militia members” and, as such, were collaborating
with guerrilla groups.88
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United Nations, Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms.
Radhika Coomaraswamy, submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/52. Visit to Colombia,
E/CN.4/2003/75/Add.2,
January
14,
2003,
paragraph
35,
available
at
htttp://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.2003.90.Add.2.En?Opendocument; Panorama de Derechos
Humanos, Noche y Niebla y Violencia Política en Colombia, Caso Tipo No. 2: Comuna 13, [Human Rights Picture, Night, Fog and
Political Violence in Colombia, Case Type No. 2], CINEP & Justicia y Paz, Bogotá, May 2003, p. 31 available [in Spanish] at
http://www.nocheyniebla.org/node/46.
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika
Coomaraswamy, submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/52. Visit to Colombia,
E/CN.4/2003/75/Add.2, January 14, 2003, paragraph 35.
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Annex 32. Arrest report, Squad Commander Corporal Third Class Torres Monterosa Pilides, Military Forces of
Colombia, National Army, Fourth Brigade, to the Prosecutor on Duty, November 12, 2002, attachment to the petitioners’
communication in the matter of Mery Naranjo et al. – Comuna 13, March 25, 2010.
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Annex 32. Arrest report, Squad Commander Corporal Third Class Torres Monterosa Pilides, Military Forces of
Colombia, National Army, Fourth Brigade, to the Prosecutor on Duty, November 12, 2002. Annex 32. Official Confirmation of
the report by Corporal Third Class Torres Monterrosa Pilides, November 12, 2002. Annexes to the petitioners’ communication
in the matter of Mery Naranjo et al. – Comuna 13, March 25, 2010.
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Annex 34. Order to close Investigation No. 631609 conducted by the Single Sectional Unit for Crimes against the
Constitutional and Legal Order and Other Crimes, dated May 22, 2003. Attachment to the original petition in the matter of
Socorro Mosquera Londoño and Mery Naranjo Jiménez – Comuna 13 – March 7, 2005, and to the Colombian State’s note DH.
GOI No. 12442-0552 of March 15, 2007.
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Annex 34. Order to close Investigation No. 631609 conducted by the Single Sectional Unit for Crimes against the
Constitutional and Legal Order and Other Crimes, dated May 22, 2003; Annex 35. Copy of the resolution issued by the