4 cases; that it was decided to close five cases; six cases were referred to the Colombian Public Prosecutor’s Office for reasons of jurisdiction; one was referred to the Inspección General del Ejército Nacional (Army Inspector General's Office); eight were requested by the Colombian Attorney General’s advisors and others were referred to the commission. 13. The brief by the representatives, received on August 16, 2005, in which they included their comments on the report submitted by the State and pointed out, inter alia, that: a) the repeated failure of the State to comply with the submission of periodic reports is a matter of concern, especially considering that the Order of the Court of March 15, 2005 directed the State to submit a report within a period of 30 days and the State delayed its submission for over three months; b) the State report did not provide any conclusive results regarding the investigation into the massacre of February 21, 2005, which claimed the life of children Deyner Andrés Guerra-Tuberquia, Natalia Andrea Bolivar-Muñoz and her brother Santiago; member of the Consejo Interno (Internal Council) Luis Eduardo Guerra-Guerra, and his partner Bellanira Aleiza Guzmán, and community leader Luis Alfonso Bolivar-Tuberquia, his wife Sandra Milena Muñoz-Posso, and the farmer, Mr. Alejandro Pérez. They allow themselves to sustain, based on certain circumstantial evidence, that the events would have allegedly been the responsibility of the members of the 17th Brigade of the Army, and that neither the Colombian Public Prosecutor’s Office nor the Colombian Attorney General’s Office in charge of the criminal and disciplinary investigations respectively have obtained any kind of results; c) in relation to the criminal and disciplinary investigations, the State included “a series of statistical data without providing the source of that information. […I]t is strange that the State refers to a total of 80 criminal investigations given that in [previous] reports the figures were completely different[...];” d) a series of incidents took place between February 19 and June 24, 2005, related to the arrival of army units in some hamlets of San José de Apartadó and with the action reportedly taken by army and police officers. These incidents include: the stealing of money and various items from the house of Mr. Norbey Sepúlveda, a resident of Las Nieves; the shootings and the injuries caused to child Diana Marcela Guzmán and militiaman Marcelino Moreno, the latter of whom died; the attempt to kill two residents of Las Nieves, who hid in the woods for ten days; the interception by two men in civilian clothes of Messrs. Alirio Cartagena and Dumar Aleiza, who were targeted as members of the guerrilla and subsequently arrested without a warrant by police officers and taken to the Army Headquarters; the arrest and murder of Luis Eduardo Guerra-Guerra, Bellanira Aleiza Guzmán and child Deiner Andrés GuerraTuberquia; the deprivation of liberty of six families of the hamlet of Mulatos; the bombing of the hamlets of Bellavista, Buenos Aires and Alto Bonito, in San José de Apartadó, where many animals that were crucial to the livelihood of local people died; the displacement of the residents of San José to the farm La Holandita due to raids conducted by police forces, who announced the decision to stay permanently in the community, and the radio broadcast of General Carlos Alberto Ospina’s statement, Commander General of Military Forces, “who began to spread false information on the [people] of the massacre of February 21 in the hamlets of Mulatos and La Resbalosa in San José de Apartadó intended to stigmatize the memory of the victims and to lay the responsibility