29 see their uncles and Jaime Riaño Colorado taken away. Sometimes her mother blamed her for having taken her brothers to work at La Cristalina. She was forcibly displaced. What she had before the massacre –the farms and the animals- “was lost or ceased to exist.” However, the Red de Solidaridad and the Instituto Nacional de Vivienda de Interés Social y Reforma Urbana (INURBE) gave her a house in her name and that of her children. After the massacre, the same people who took her spouse and her brothers away threatened her in Acacías. She has not seen the State do anything to establish the whereabouts of her brothers and of her spouse. She did not file a complaint about what happened because she “was frightened” and she lives in a state of nervousness about something happening to her. She feels afraid upon rendering this statement because she “does not know what it will be like when she returns to Colombia.” She would like to see the body of her brothers and spouse. However, she would like to see them alive and she “always hopes [that] they will return.” Sometimes she also thinks that they are dead. She would like those responsible to be punished, as it “hurts very much for them to do those things without one knowing why.” She would like to receive financial support for her children’s schooling and to recover what they had before. c) Mariela Contreras Cruz, the mother of Diego Armando and Hugo Fernando Martínez Contreras and the spouse of Gustavo Caicedo Contreras She lived an hour and a half from Mapiripán with her spouse and their 7 children. Her house was wooden; she had electrical appliances, cattle, hens, pigs, and goats. When they were in Mapiripán their children escaped and told them that they had seen body parts. When they left Mapiripán they walked “from farm to farm” for a month until they arrived at El Anzuelo. They had no comforts and the “children lost time from studying.” Afterwards they had to leave that place because the paramilitary attacked the town and threatened them. Since she “was traumatized by what had happened,” she went to Villavicencio with her children, but since the State did not give them much support, she went to Bogotá, where they helped her with “groceries” five months later. In Bogotá she stayed for some time at the house of her daughter, who had problems with her spouse because she was ill and he had to work to support them. She “even had to beg”. Afterwards, the witness and her younger children moved into a “house closed in tin […] and plastic”, which belonged to her brother. Her children cried from hunger, as she was unable to find employment. She has never gone to her house because she “think[s] that they may kill [her…] also, with [her] children.” Since she did not see her sons and spouse dead she “tell[s her]self that they are alive.” However, she thinks that she will never see the corpses. She feels sad and lonely, as she has “nothing and [is] morally destroyed from missing [her] children and [her] spouse.” Her other children are extremely traumatized and they cry a lot. She cannot sleep restfully and she dreams “terrible things” about her children and her spouse.