81 considers that the State violated Article 6(2) of the Convention to the detriment of these same people, and also 16) Tomás Monsalve and 17) Felipe “Pipe” Gómez. XI ARTICLE 21 OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION (RIGHT TO PROPERTY) ARTICLE 11(2), IN RELATION TO ARTICLE 21 THEREOF (RIGHT TO HONOR AND DIGNITY) ALL IN RELATION TO ARTICLE 1(1) THEREOF The Commission’s arguments 169. Regarding the alleged violation of Article 21 of the Convention, the InterAmerican Commission alleged that: (a) Before abandoning the district of El Aro, “the paramilitary group destroyed and set fire to almost all the houses in the urban center so as to cause terror and forced displacement”; (b) When they left El Aro, the paramilitary group “stole around 1,200 horses, mules and cattle belonging to the inhabitants”; (c) The acts of arson and theft of the property of the El Aro families “were perpetrated with the direct collaboration of members of law enforcement bodies”; and (d) The alleged victims of the violation of Article 21, owing to “the theft of livestock or the loss of their homes,” are: Libardo Egidio Mendoza, Luis Humberto Mendoza Arroyave, Ricardo Alfredo Builes Echeverri, Bernardo María Jiménez Lopera, Francisco Osvaldo Pino Posada and Omar Alfredo Torres Jaramillo. The representatives’ arguments 170. Regarding the violation of Article 21 of the American Convention, the representatives alleged that: (a) The paramilitary group stole approximately 1,200 head of livestock from the farms of El Aro and other villages in the municipalities of Puerto Valdivia and Ituango; (b) The paramilitary group set fire to at least 80% of the homes in El Aro, as well as others on the road to Puerto Valdivia; (c) These acts were perpetrated “with the direct participation and support of agents of the National Army, under the permissive regard and omissive attitude of their superior civil and military authorities,” who failed to adopt any measure to avoid the acts; (d) “Law enforcement bodies had possession of the stolen livestock”;

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