-5995(75) On April 19, 1990, after they had been to the “amphitheater” of the San
Jerónimo Hospital in Montería, four inhabitants of Pueblo Bello made statements and
declared that they had identified the bodies of Ricardo Bohórquez, Andrés Manuel
Peroza Jiménez, Juan Luis Escobar Duarte, Leonel Escobar Duarte, Ovidio Carmona
Suárez and Jorge David Martínez Moreno.102
95(76) On an unknown date, the unidentified bodies were buried in a common grave
in the San Antonio cemetery, in Montería.103
95(77) On an unknown date, the alleged members of the paramilitary forces,
Ramiro Enrique Álvarez Porras, Héctor de Jesús Narváez Alarcón, Luis Ángel
Gil Zapata, Pedro Hernán Ogaza Pantoja, Tarquino Rafael Morales Díaz and Elkin de
Jesús Tobón Zea were captured at “Las Tangas”; they made preliminary statements
before the Fourth Public Order Court on April 20, 1990.104
95(78) On April 24 and 25, 1990, Rogelio de Jesús Escobar Mejía again appeared
before the DAS to make a statement. On April 26, 1990, Rogelio de Jesús Escobar
Mejía made a statement before the Fourth Public Order Court and confessed facts
related to the events of Pueblo Bello. Subsequently, on May 15 and 29 and on June
12, 1990, he made a statement before the First Public Order Court.105
95(79) In a note of September 12, 1990, the Headquarters of the General Directorate
of Intelligence of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) gave the First
Public Order Judge information concerning the facts that had occurred in Pueblo
Bello. Among the documents accompanying this note were the “report provided
freely and spontaneously” by Rogelio de Jesús Escobar Mejía. The General
Directorate of Intelligence indicated that this testimony had provided the basis for
the operation that led to the discovery of several common graves on the “Jaraguay”
and “Las Tangas” ranches in the jurisdiction of Valencia (Córdoba), and referred to
the communications network among Fidel Castaño Gil’s ranches that existed at that
time:
[…] The organization remains in close contact owing to a communications system that
links all the ranches of FIDEL CASTAÑO, thus:
[…] 6. The Police Station in the municipality of Valencia has a [wireless] frequency
available to communicate with FIDEL CASTAÑO’s organization, informing it opportunely
102
Cf. communication entitled “Qualifying opinion” of October 17, 1995, from the Office of the
Attorney for Criminal Affairs (Procuraduría en lo Judicial Penal) to the Medellín Regional Prosecutor (file of
useful evidence submitted by the State, folios 6419 and 6420); ordinary judgment delivered by the
Medellín Regional Court on May 26, 1997 (file of attachments to the application brief, tome II, attachment
C2, folios 393 and 397), and judgment of the Sentencing Chamber of the Tribunal Nacional of December
30, 1997 (file of attachments to the application brief, tome II, attachment C3, folio 443).
103
Cf. testimony of José Daniel Álvarez Ruiz before the Inter-American Court during the public
hearing held on September 19, 2005; report of November 24, 2003 issued by the Identification Unit of the
Prosecutor General’s Office (file of useful evidence submitted by the State, folios 5653 to 5660), and note
of September 17, 2002, from ASFADDES to the Coordination Office of the Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law Unit (file of documents received during the public hearing, folios 2753 to 2755).
104
Cf. decision of the Medellín Fourth Public Order Court of May 15, 1990 (file of useful evidence
submitted by the State, folio 6998), and decision of May 16, 1990 issued by the Second Superior Court of
Montería (file of useful evidence submitted by the State, folio 6900).
105
Cf. statement of April 25, 1990, made by Rogelio de Jesús Escobar Mejía before DAS; statements
of April 26, 1990, May 15 and 29, 1990 and June 12, 1990, made by Rogelio de Jesús Escobar Mejía
before the Medellín Fourth Public Order Court (file of useful evidence submitted by the State, folios 3523
to 3597, 4547, 5221 to 5295, 5312 to 5319, 5324 to 5336, and 6976 to 6995).
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