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FIRST: ASFADDES personnel should be contacted in order to expand and clarify the
contents of their latest communication, especially with regard to the location of the
common grave, situated in the San Antonio cemetery of the municipality of Montería,
Córdoba, where there are possibly some unidentified corpses […]
SECOND: An official communication should be sent to the administrator of the San
Antonio cemetery requesting him to advise whether there is a project to pave land
within this cemetery. If so, he should inform all those concerned about this project,
advising which authority, institution or entity ordered it and when it will be executed.
THIRD: Through the Secretariat, an official communication should be sent to the
National Forensic Directorate in Bogotá, informing it that this investigation is being
continued and asking it to advise which judicial officials have been involved in it.
FOURTH: Once this information has been obtained, a decision must be take on the
viability of ordering the exhumation procedure in the San Antonio cemetery, in the
municipality of Montería, to make it possible to fully identify the corpses […]
FIFTH: All the arrest warrants ordered in the case file which have not been executed
should be reactivated […]138
95(112) On May 15, 2003, ASFADDES, the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas and the
Corporación “Opción Legal” requested a meeting with the head of the Human Rights
and International Humanitarian Law Unit to discuss the exhumations programmed
for May 20, 2003, because, at that time of year, the site conditions were
inappropriate, owing to the weather.139
95(113) On June 1, 2003, ASFADDES and the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas sent
a note to the prosecutor of the Medellín Human Rights Unit, requesting:
(a) That the pending exhumation procedure should be agreed and coordinated with the
next of kin of the victims and the petitioners.
(b) That, when performing this exhumation procedure, the Bogotá Technical
Investigation Corps should draw on elements that have already been used in the
search and identification of the victims.
(c) That experts in the collection of this type of evidence should be present during the
exhumation procedure to ensure the identification of the remains of the disappeared
victims.
(d) That the presence of the next of kin of the victims and the petitioners is guaranteed
during this procedure.
(e) That we are provided with information on the investigation […]140.
95(114) Between August 19 and 25, 2003, the Technical Investigation Corps of the
Prosecutor General’s Office made a judicial inspection in the San Antonio cemetery,
Montería, to exhume the corpses of 18 alleged victims of the events of Pueblo Bello.
The result of the procedure was negative.141
138
Cf. decision of February 21, 2003, issued by the National Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law Unit (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, tome V, attachment 7(5),
folios 1651 to 1654).
139
Cf. note of March 15, 2003, from ASFADDES, the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas and the
Corporación Opción Legal to the National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit (file of
documents received during the public hearing, folios 2758 and 2759).
140
Cf. note of June 1, 2003, from ASFADDES and the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas to the
Prosecutor of the Medellín Human Rights Unit (file of documents received during the public hearing, folio
2760).
141
Cf. report of November 24, 2003, issued by Identification Unit of the Technical Investigation
Corps of the Prosecutor General’s Office (file of useful evidence submitted by the State, folios 5653 to
5660).
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