their husbands’ belongings, the policemen showed them some weapons and they said that this “had been found at the Cerón’s farm,” and this caused them great humiliation and grief. Those days were “very stigmatizing” and painful for her family, because people had heard the police account and they made remarks. She had to work to cover her family’s needs. She sold food on the streets. Despite all her efforts, her children were unable to complete their schooling. Since the events, she suffers pain in her knees and shoulders and the physicians say that it is nervous arthritis. In her family, her youngest daughter has been the one suffering the greatest trauma, as she was ten years old at the time. She made her statements before all the officials who summoned her, certain that her husband was not a guerrilla fighter and believing that those responsible would be punished. Impunity has caused her great grief and a feeling of powerlessness as the police account has not changed. She hopes that there will be a public rectification regarding the facts, and that the Court will render justice. c) Jaime Pantoja López, a son of Artemio Pantoja Ordóñez. He is a mason like his father was; they had a very close relationship, and he accompanied him in his work. On January 23, 1991 he was informed of his father’s death. When he arrived at the hospital to corroborate this, there were many people and policemen, who did not allow him to enter, arguing that “he was the son of a guerrilla fighter.” After the facts he became very nervous and he drinks liquor “to feel relief.” Since then he feels hatred against the police and fear that they are going to kill him, he is even terrified by darkness. One of the persons who has been affected most severely is his sister Adalí Oneyda, who was his father’s “favorite” and after his death she left school and drinks liquor. The day of the funeral there were members of the police in civilian clothing walking next to the coffins and taking photographs. Also, they were on the terraces of several buildings, in uniform and watchful. When his father was killed they said that he and his family were guerrilla fighters, and this has not been cleared up, for which reason his family is at grave risk. He has never testified before any authorities regarding the death of his father, because he has never been summoned; furthermore, he was not an eyewitness of the facts. He hopes that those responsible are punished, because that massacre affected the whole community, and he also expects the damage to be redressed. He wants the image left by the official account of the facts to be corrected as soon as possible on television, clarifying that neither his father nor his family have been guerrilla fighters nor have any connection with the guerrillas. d) Carmen Leonor Pantoja López, a daughter of Artemio Pantoja Ordóñez. She works as a secretary in the Police Department of Putumayo. At the time of the facts in the instant case, she had been working in that Department for a year. The day of the facts, colonel Pedro Pablo Linares informed her that there were several wounded persons at the hospital and gave her permission to go and see whether her father was among them. Due to her father’s death, they gave her leave of absence that week, and when she returned to work they handed her a “vacations slip” without having requested them, which was the procedure prior to dismissal. During those vacations she was arbitrarily denied her right to health services for control of her pregnancy, with the excuse that she was no longer part of the police. She felt powerless due to her family’s conditions and considered it unfair for the police to cause her new harm after having killed her father. Her appointment was declared