-58- 95(71) On April 10, 1990, the judge responsible for the Seventh Criminal Court of first instance accompanied by several members of the Technical Corps of the Judicial Police, went to the “Jaraguay” ranch, which borders on the “Las Tangas” ranch, to effect the “removal” of corpses. The result of this action was the discovery of the skeletons of four corpses.98 95(72) On April 12, 1990, the Judge and the Secretary of the 19th Criminal Court of first instance went to “Las Tangas” to carry out an “exhumation” procedure. On that occasion, they found four corpses. Regarding one of them, the experts who took part in the operation, estimated that, given the state of decomposition, it must have been buried for about two and a half months. The respective official record did not indicate the state of the other corpses and mentioned that “despite a careful examination of the pockets of the clothes of the corpses, no documents were found that would have identified them.”99 95(73) On April 16, 1990, the Judge and Secretary of the 15th Criminal Court of first instance went to “Las Tangas” to carry out the “removal” of the corpses. During this procedure, eight trenches were found, each of which contained remains of corpses, with their arms tied behind their backs. Some of the remains found were completely decomposed and most of them were merely osseous remains.100 95(74) As a result of the exhumations carried out on the “Las Tangas” and “Jaraguay” ranches in April 1990 (supra paras. 95(71) to 95(73)) 24 corpses were found, and taken to the San Jerónimo Hospital in Montería to be identified by the next of kin of the disappeared from Pueblo Bello. The next of kin who went to the hospital did not receive any information or collaboration from the State authorities or the hospital personnel and were left alone to examine the corpses, which were decomposed and had been thrown on the floor of the “amphitheater” (anfiteatro).101 Intelligence of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) on September 12, 1990 (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, attachment 5(2), folio 1523). 98 Cf. official record of the exhumation of corpses of April 10, 1990, issued by the Seventh Criminal Court of first instance (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, tome V, attachment 7(1), folios 1641 and 1642). 99 Cf. official record of the exhumation of corpses of April 12, 1990, issued by the 19th Criminal Court of first instance (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, tome V, attachment 7(2), folios 1643 to 1644). 100 Cf. record of the exhumation of corpses of April 16, 1990 issued by the 15th Criminal Court of first instance (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, tome V, attachment 7(3), folios 1645 to 1647). 101 Cf. official record of the exhumation of corpses of April 10, 1990, issued by the Seventh Criminal Court of first instance (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, tome V, attachment 7(1), folios 1641 to 1642); official record of the exhumation of corpses of April 12, 1990, issued by the 19th Criminal Court of first instance (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, tome V, attachment 7(2), folios 1643 to 1644); record of the exhumation of corpses of April 16, 1990, issued by the 15th Criminal Court of first instance (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, tome V, attachment 7(3), folios 1645 to 1647); testimonies of Mariano Manuel Martínez, Rubén Díaz Romero, José Daniel Álvarez Ruiz and Blanca Libia Moreno Cossio give before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on September 19, 2005, and statements made before notary public (affidavits) by Benildo José Ricardo Herrera, Pedro Luis Escobar Duarte, Euclides Manuel Calle Álvarez, Genaro Benito Calderón Ruiz, Manuel Dolores López Cuadro, Leovigildo Villalba Sánchez and María Cecilia Ruiz de Álvarez on August 16, 2005 (file of statements made before or authenticated by notary public, folios 2702, 2709, 2713, 2717, 2723, 2730, 2735 and 2738).