25
90.
As yet, the fate and whereabouts of Aníbal Castaño and Oscar Zuluaga are unknown.
3.2
Disappearance of children Juan Crisóstomo Cardona Quintero and Miguel Ancízar
Cardona Quintero, and of alias Fredy and his wife on June 22, 1996
91.
According to testimony, on June 22, 1996, at 5:00 a.m., a group of armed civilians
entered the home of Dioscelina Quintero, who was sleeping at the time.96 This group took into custody
her children, 12-year-old Juan Crisóstomo Cardona Quintero and 15-year-old Miguel Ancízar Cardona
Quintero97. A testimony indicates that while they were being taken away, the Cardona Quintero
brothers began to cry and were tied up.98
92.
The witnesses mentioned that the group of armed civilians entered an adjoining home
and took into custody a person identified as Fredy along with his wife, leaving his two-month-old baby
son Andrés Suarez Cordero behind.99 According to several witness statements, alias Fredy, his wife and
child, had arrived in the village two weeks earlier.100
93.
Several witnesses noticed it when these individuals were put into SUVs101 which,
according to accounts, headed toward the La Piñuela military base.102 One woman witness claimed that
a few days later, she recognized a police officer and a military man, who had participated in these
96
Annex 24. Statement of María de la Cruz Hernández de Gallego to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of
the Attorney General of the Nation, dated November 8, 2004. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 71-72. Compact Disk
attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010; Annex 24. Statement of Elvia Rosa Fernández de Cardona to the
National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated October 12, 2004. Case File No. 233
UNDH. Book No. 10. Compact Disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010.
97
Annex 19. Submission of the Corporación Jurídica Libertad to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the
Attorney General of the Nation, filed on April 2, 2007. Annex to petitioners’ communication of July 1, 1999.
98
Annex 23. Statement of a woman resident of Vereda La Esperanza. Compact disk of Corporación Jurídica Libertad
attached to petitioners’ submission of March 23, 2010.
99
Annex 34. Statement with identity withheld, code VB-1, to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the
Attorney General of the Nation, dated April 14, 1998. Annex to petitioners’ submission of September 1, 2004; Annex 24.
Statement of Elvia Rosa Fernández de Cardona to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the
Nation, dated October 12, 2004. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Compact Disk attached to petitioners’ communication of
June 24, 2010.
100
Annex 33. Statement of Juan Carlos Gallego Hernández to the Office of the Municipal Ombudsman of Cocorná,
dated June 30, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ communication of July 1, 1999; Annex 24. Statement of Diosdado Quintero Giraldo
to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, dated November 8, 2004. Case File No.
233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 64-70. Compact disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010; Annex 35.
Statement of Elvia Rosa Fernández Cardona to the Municipal Civil Court of El Carmen de Vibioral, dated October 12, 2004.
Annex to petitioners’ submission of March 2006.
101
Annex 35. Statement of Elvia Rosa Fernández Cardona to the Municipal Civil Court of El Carmen de Viboral, dated
October 12, 2004. Annex to petitioners’ submission of March 2006; Annex 34. Statement with identity withheld, code VB-1, to
the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated April 14, 1998. Annex to petitioners’
submission of September 1, 2004.
102
Annex 34. Statement with identity withheld, code VB-1, to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the
Attorney General of the Nation, dated April 14, 1998. Annex to petitioners’ submission of September 1, 2004.