35 114. According to his wife, on July 7, 1996 in the afternoon, Javier Giraldo was on the side of the Medellín-Bogotá highway teaching a friend to drive a motorcycle.172 Witnesses said that the same SUVs in which Juan Carlos Gallego and Jaime Alonso Mejía were taken away, pulled up next to him, they asked his name and told him to get in, which he refused to do.173 According to the testimony, Javier Giraldo attempted to get away but one of the vehicles ran over the tire of his motorcycle and his foot174, they said to him: “running a lot, you son of a bitch”, and they made him get into one of the vehicles.175 Another witness claimed that once he was in the SUV, he tried to get away and was beaten.176 Witnesses said that he was shot and his body was left along the highway.177 One woman witness said that “everyone saw when they killed him on the highway but nobody did anything out of fear that the same thing would happen to them.”178 Yet another witness saw “like four holes” in Javier Giraldo’s back.179 Another witness said that around 17 individuals took part in these events and that Juan Carlos Gallego and Jaime Alonso Mejía were taken away in the SUVs.180 172 Annex 47. Statement of Nelly Soto de Castaño to the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated August 12, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ submission received at the IACHR on February 1, 2007. 173 Annex 47. Statement of Nelly Soto de Castaño to the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated August 12, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ submission received at the IACHR on February 1, 2007; Annex 24. Statement of Pablo Antonio Quintero to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated April 5, 2005. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 190-193. Compact disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 174 Annex 47. Statement of Nelly Soto de Castaño to the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated August 12, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ submission received at the IACHR on February 1, 2007; Annex 24. Statement of Pablo Antonio Quintero to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated April 5, 2005. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 190-193. Compact disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 175 Annex 48. Statement of Carlos Arturo Estrada Ramírez to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated April 15, 1998. Annex to petitioners’ submission received at the IACHR on February 1, 2007. 176 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. 177 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. 178 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 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; Annex 30. Statement of José Eliseo Gallego Quintero to the Office of the Municipal Ombudsman of El Carmen de Viboral, dated July 19, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ communication of July 1, 1999. 179 Annex 24. Statement of Jhon Fredy Castaño Gallego to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated November 10, 2004. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 81-85. Compact disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010. 180 Annex 48. Statement of Carlos Arturo Estrada Ramírez to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated April 15, 1998. Annex to petitioners’ submission received at the IACHR on February 1, 2007.