2 CONSIDERING: 1. That the import of the representations made by those appearing on behalf of both the victims and the State is to seek the reinstatement of the provisional measures adopted by the Court on November 7, 1996, and that, although the terms revision and reconsideration are employed, the intent, in the view of this Tribunal, is not to impugn, stricto sensu, the Court's Order but rather to obtain a ruling based on the events which have supervened since the issuing of that Order. 2. That the representatives of the victims claim that several of the witnesses who provided statements in the instant case were subjected to harassment, persecution, and threatening telephone calls on publication of the Court's Judgment on Reparations of January 29, 1997, and of its Order of the same date terminating the provisional measures adopted in this Case; and that the veracity of this contention is fortified by the representations made by the State. NOW THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 25 of the Rules of Procedure, in conjunction with Article 29 of the Rules of Procedure, DECIDES: 1. To request the State of Colombia to adopt, forthwith, such measures as may be necessary to protect the lives and physical integrity of Gonzalo Arias-Alturo, Javier Páez, Guillermo Guerrero-Zambrano, Elida González-Vergel and María Nodelia Parra, and to prevent them from suffering irreparable damage, in strict compliance with the obligation to respect and guarantee the human rights, which it undertook under Article 1(1) of the Convention. 2. To request the State of Colombia that it investigate the acts of intimidation to which the persons mentioned in the preceding operative paragraph were subjected and punish those responsible. 3. To request the State of Colombia that it report to the Court, every two months from the date of notification of this Order, on the provisional measures it has taken, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that it submit to the Court its comments on that information within one month from the date of its receipt. Done in Spanish and English, the Spanish text being authentic, at the seat of the Court in San Jose, Costa Rica, on this sixteenth day of April, 1997. Héctor Fix-Zamudio President Hernán Salgado-Pesantes Alejandro Montiel-Argüello