-29events, the witness went with other people to the San Pedro military base to look for the disappeared, but the Army did not offer to help them find [the disappeared] and they had to return to the village. He said that, months later, he was advised about the remains found on “Las Tangas,” but he did not learn this from the prosecutor’s office or any State authority. When he went to identify the corpses in the hospital where the remains had been “thrown on the floor,” he did not receive any type of help from the hospital personnel, or the prosecutor’s office, or any State official. The witness stated that, following the facts, “many [of the people of Pueblo Bello were] dispersed, displaced […] to Turbo, Chigorodó and Apartadó.” The Army told them they had to leave the village because, if they did not leave, “they were accomplices of the guerrilla.” Consequently, he had to go to Chigorodó with his cattle. As a displaced person, members of the Army “took advantage of the situation, […] and obliged [him] to sell [his] farm.” Mr. Díaz Romero stated that, since the facts occurred, he lives “in penury, […] in a bad financial situation, and ha[s] suffered owing to the violence, the distress of so many people, that does not allow [him] to live in peace.” The witness stated that he knows the authorities have looked for his son, Ariel, but “they have never been able to give him any certainty about anything, [anything at all], even the remains [of his son].” Following the events, “[his] children left [and his] wife was in a very bad way.” Finally, he said that “it is impossible […] to explain the anguish, the sadness […], and [particularly] owing to the lack of help.” d) Blanca Libia Moreno Cossio, mother of Camilo Antonio Durango Moreno Mrs. Moreno Cossio lived with her husband and children. Her son, Camilo, was 20 years of age and, together with her husband, supported the household. When the witness heard about what had happened in Pueblo Bello, she went to find a means of transport to go to San Pedro de Urabá, together with the next of kin of the other people who were disappeared, in order to seek information on the whereabouts of her son; but they were unable to obtain any information. The witness indicated that she also went to the Montería hospital to try and identify her son among the corpses there. The bodies were “in a horrible state of decomposition” and she had no one to advise her how to identify her son. To date, no State authority has given her any information about her son’s whereabouts. Mrs. Moreno Cossio stated that Belarmino, her youngest son, was 9 years old at the time of the facts. Following the alleged disappearance of his brother, the child “became very sad” and constantly asked for the return of his brother. The witness said that the child “was terribly sad, […] ever after he was sad, sad.” The little boy told her that “Camilo had been to see him; that Camilo threw him a noose and said that he should put it on and jump and nothing would happen.” The witness took her youngest son to a doctor, who said that “nothing was wrong with him; that it was just his imagination; it was impossible to take him to a specialist [owing to their] financial situation, because [they] did not have insurance or anything, [and they] had to leave him without any treatment.” The witness stated that two weeks after this happened, her youngest son hanged himself. They took him to the hospital

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