31 statement was taken from the latter on June 4, 1999, and on July 1, 1999, “his legal status was decided […] imposing a preventive measure consisting in pre-trial detention without parole […] for multiple murders.” In April 1998, the National Human Rights Unit had ordered a judicial inspection of the disciplinary proceedings so as to transfer evidence, in order to establish the names of the members of the Girardot Battalion based in the zone at the time of the facts. “On February 24, 2000, an order was issued to investigate” Salvatore Mancuso Gómez and Alexander Mercado Fonseca, “members of the AUC.” On April 22, 2003, the Second Criminal Affairs Judge of the Antioquia Specialized Circuit sentenced Salvatore Mancuso Gómez and Carlos Castaño Gil to 40 years’ imprisonment for the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, aggravated multiple murders and aggravated theft. The same judgment also sentenced Francisco Villalba Hernández to 33 years’ imprisonment; he is serving his sentence in the Itagüí Prison in Antioquia. The disciplinary ruling against Army Lieutenant Everardo Bolaños Galindo and First Corporal Germán Antonio Alzate Cardona for collaboration and omission in relation to the facts that occurred in the municipal district of El Aro was transferred to the criminal investigation. The transfer of this ruling, allowed the acting Prosecutor to order that these individuals should be investigated under the criminal proceedings. The First Corporal was declared “absent” on January 11, 2005, and it was determined that he used the alias “Rambo.” In a decision of March 1, 2005, “the acting Prosecutor decided the legal status of Everardo Bolaños Galindo and Germán Antonio Alzate Cardona, and ordered a preventive measure against them consisting in pre-trial detention without parole for the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, aggravated by their status as active members of the Army at the time of the facts, in conjunction with the crimes of terrorism, aggravated murder and aggravated theft.” Everardo Bolaños Galindo is in prison at the orders of the Specialized Court of Florencia, Caquetá, for his alleged participation in acts that took place in 2002 and 2003. Finally, the investigation is complicated by the geographical location and public order situation of the zone. Also, during the initial stages of the investigation, there was no conclusive testimony, because people were afraid owing to the presence of illegal agents. Subsequently, the cases were incorporated into the Special Committee for the Promotion [of Human Rights Investigations], created by the Vice President of the Republic as a public policy project within the framework of the fight against impunity, composed of the Attorney General’s Office, Judges of the Republic, and the Prosecutor General’s Office, assisted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia, with international cooperation resources. 2. Jaime Jaramillo Panneso, Peace and Culture Adviser of the Antioquia Governor’s Office “About 15 to 20 families” may have been displaced from El Aro, owing to the raid of October 1997. The Governor’s Office gave food to those who were displaced and offered them protection and help to return to their homes. Since the families were dispersed, it