2 Las Palmeras, Municipality of Mocoa, Department of Putumayo. assisted the National Police. Army troopers That morning, children were at the Las Palmeras country schoolhouse, waiting for classes to begin. Two laborers by the name of Julio Milciades Cerón Gómez and Artemio Pantoja, were working on the repair of a septic tank. The brothers Wilian Hamilton Cerón Rojas and Edebraes Norverto Cerón Rojas were rounding up a head of cattle on a nearby hillside. Hernán Javier Cuarán Muchavisoy, the local teacher, was arriving at the school. The Army forces opened fire from a helicopter, wounding Enio Quinayas Molina, then a six-year old boy on his way to school. At and nearby the schoolhouse, Police detained the teacher, Cuarán Muchavisoy, the workers, Cerón Gómez and Pantoja, the Cerón brothers Wilian Hamilton and Edebraes, and one other unidentified person, who might have been either Moisés Ojeda or Hernán Lizcano Jacanamejoy. The National Police extrajudicially executed at least six of these people. The National Police officers and the Army troopers took several measures in an attempt to justify their action. To that end, they put military uniforms on the bodies of some of those killed, burned their real clothes and threatened a number of witnesses in the case. The National Police also put seven corpses on display, claiming that they were the bodies of subversives killed in the supposed clash. Six of the bodies were of the six people the Police detained that day; the circumstances of the death of the seventh person have never been explained. Disciplinary, administrative and criminal proceedings were instituted as a consequence of these events. The disciplinary inquiry conducted by the Putumayo National Police Commandant took five days, and cleared all those who participated in the Las Palmeras incident of all blame. Two administrative-law proceedings were instituted wherein it was expressly acknowledged that the victims of the armed operation did not belong to any armed group and, on the day the events transpired, were engaged in their routine activities. These proceedings established that the National Police extrajudicially executed the victims, who were utterly defenseless. After seven years, the military criminal proceeding had not progressed past the investigative phase and not one of those responsible for these events had yet been charged. 3. In its application, the follows: Inter-American Commission petitioned the Court as [t]he Inter-American Commission respectfully petitions the Honorable Court to: Adjudge and declare that the State of Colombia has violated the right to life, recognized in Article 4 of the Convention, and Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, to the detriment of Artemio Pantoja Ordóñez, Hernán Javier Cuarán Muchavisoy, Julio Milcíades Cerón Gómez, Edebraiz Cerón Rojas, Wilian Hamilton Cerón Rojas and one other person (who could be either Hernán Lizcano Jacanamejoy or Moisés Ojeda). Establish the circumstances surrounding the death of a seventh person purported to have been killed in combat (Hernán Lizcano Jacanamejoy or Moisés Ojeda), to determine whether the right to life recognized in Article 4 of the Convention and Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions has been violated.