10 National Unit of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, five cases before the sectional directive of Antioquia, and three cases before the sectional directive of Bogotá. 26. The representative indicated, among other things, that “[the] crimes perpetrated against the members of the Peace Community never have been investigated as what they truly are: as Crimes Against Humanity.” During the public hearing (supra Having Seen 5), the representative mentioned that “the type of justice that is being implemented for the crimes that have affected the Peace Community is contrary to international law and to numerous constitutional and national legal precepts, [because] it is evident to any observer that, against the population of San José de Apartadó [and] especially, against the members of the Peace Community, there systematic crimes have been perpetrated following the same script for almost fifteen years[,] whose responsibility lies with direct and indirect agents of the State that have acted in a coordinated manner.” Additionally, the representative indicated that “another structural flaw that affects the credibility and validity of the investigations of the Prosecutor and Colombian judges is the handling of evidence. In this regard, during the public hearing the Representative indicated that “the Peace Community has also questioned the methods used by the Prosecutor to demonstrate results, because they are supported by a justice that is always reduced to testimony alone; in this case the testimony of persons who for decades have been involved in barbaric practices, whose credibility is far too fragile, is converted into proof; and said justice has been exercised against rural persons in the area, including against members of the Community.” 27. The Commission “value[d] that on March 26, 2009, the Second Criminal Tribunal of the Apartadó Circuit issued a conviction against seven individuals in which a penalty of 30 years in prison was imposed for the death of Edilberto Vásquez Córdoba;” however, it requested that the Court “require that the State produce probative evidence that supports said information and that it informs whether said persons are actually serving their sentence.” The Commission also referred to the investigation in the case of Rodrigo Salas David, which according to information presented by the State, passed from the military criminal justice system to the ordinary justice system. Consequently, the Commission requested that the Court “require the state to provide documentation complementing this particular information.” During the public hearing, the Commission indicated that “it understood that the State was submitting a report regarding the advances of the investigation, for which the Commission reserved the right to analyze said information,” but that the elements it had relied on prior to the hearing indicated that “there had not been significant advances in the majority of the information presented by the State in relation to investigations and specifically regarding the multiple threats received by Mr. Eduar Lanchero,” for which it reiterated its request for precise information regarding “all and each of the threats received” by said person. 28. The Court observes that the State has been informing about diverse investigations initiated in relation to acts which apparently took place against beneficiaries of the present provisional measures. According to the most recent information, presented by the State during the public hearing (supra Having Seen 5), there are 227 “initiated” investigations; however, in the document that was presented during the same hearing, the State only provided information of 18 cases being followed, respectively, before the National Unit of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law and the Sectional Directive of Antioquia and Bogotá. The Tribunal observes that said information also refers, inter alia, to investigations initiated for or against persons that are not beneficiaries of the present provisional measures, such as that related to “threats” in which the victim is the “priest Javier Giraldo Moreno,” or that related to the “injury, defamation, and false accusations” against “Coronel Néstor Iván Duque López”.

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