ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF JUNE 19, 1998 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REQUESTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA CLEMENTE TEHERÁN ET AL. CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The brief of March 18, 1998, and its attachments, by which the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Commission" or "the InterAmerican Commission") submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter "the Court" or "the Inter-American Court") a request for provisional measures on behalf of twenty-two persons, pursuant to Article 63 (2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Convention" or "the American Convention") and Article 25 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter "the Rules of Procedure"). In that brief the Commission requested the Court to call upon the State to undertake the following: a. To adopt effective security measures to protect the lives and physical integrity of Rosember Clemente-Teherán, Armando Mercado, Nilson Zurita-Mendoza, Edilberto Gaspar-Rosario, Dorancel Ortiz, Leovigildo Castillo, Santiago Méndez, Zoila Riondo, Saúl Lucas, José Guillermo Carmona, Celedonio Padilla, Eudo Mejía-Montalvo, Marcelino Suárez-Lazaro, Fabio Antonio Guevara, José Luis Mendoza, Misael Suárez-Estrada, Ingilberto M. Pérez, Martín Florez, Jacinto Ortiz-Quintero, Juan Antonio AlmanzaPacheco, José Carpio Beltrán and Luis Felipe Álvarez-Polo. The protection measures shall be adopted by the Colombian State by common agreement with the persons to be protected in order to ensure that they are effective and appropriate. b. To adopt, as an essential aspect of the duty to protect, effective measures to investigate the acts perpetrated against the members of the Zenú community listed in [the] petition, in order to identify and, where appropriate, punish those responsible for those acts. c. To inform the Court shortly of the specific and effective measures taken to protect [the persons indicated]. 2. The activities of the Zenú indigenous community of San Andrés de Sotavento (hereinafter "the Zenú indigenous community") described in the Commission's request and the acts of which its members have, by and large, been allegedly victims, which are summarized below: a) The Zenú indigenous community Reserve (hereinafter "the Reserve") is an indigenous territorial entity of inalienable collective property. Law 55 was passed in 1905 and through it the