3 parts of the country cannot remain in their locations for prolonged periods of time, thus requiring personnel to rotate; g) As to the third point, the ICJP asserted that the DAS has carried out “set-up operations” and has coordinated the opening of judicial investigations against its members with the goal of hindering its work. In this regard, there currently are at least three open investigations against members of the ICJP for the crimes of “violent protest,” “making false statements,” and “making threats”; h) Regarding the fourth point, according to the ICJP, over the past several years “a smear campaign” has been implemented, falsely alleging that ICJP members are actually FARC members and accusing them of displacing communities of African ancestry in the Bajo Atrato region in the hopes of depriving them of their lands. This campaign has been propagated via mass media outlets such as radio, television, and the Internet on both the national and international level, and some of its spokesmen are or have been linked to the Colombian government. In addition, the ICJP claimed that this campaign intensified after December 18, 2009 when the Afro-Colombians Manuel Moya, Graciano Blandón, and Blandón’s son were murdered in acts allegedly attributable to FARC guerrilla warfare. The ICJP indicated that Danilo Rueda and Abilio Peña, members of the ICJP, Father Javier Giraldo, S.J., Director of the Jesuit-run Center for Research and Popular Education (“CINEP”) database, and Iván Cepeda, spokesman of the National Victims of State Crimes Movement, have all been publicly labeled as bearing “[some] responsibility for [these] murder[s].” Also, on December 22, 2009, Senator Víctor Velásquez, President of the Senate’s Human Rights Commission, declared that “the murdered Afro-Colombian leaders ‘denounced the forcible displacement of which their communities of the Atrato river basin were victims in 1997 at the hands of the [...] F[ARC], seemingly in collusion with the NGO Justice and Peace.’” Owing to this smear campaign, numerous groups of African ancestry from areas not represented by the ICJP publicly accused ICJP members of collaborating with the guerrillas in an effort to eradicate their communities; i) According to the facts alleged by the members of the ICJP, impunity persists both in the investigations in which ICJP itself stands accused, as well as those into the threats and harassment they have received. The ICJP maintained that they continue to be subject to accusations on the part of top State officials and that the State has not provided any answers regarding the aforementioned smear campaign. Finally, the ICJP maintained that the threats, harassment, accusations, and surveillance actions against them “are contextualized” by the “setting in motion [of] judicial processes ‘aimed at hiding the truth as to serious violations of human rights and the usurpation of lands committed in the Bajo Atrato [region] […].’” Accordingly, they reasoned that as these many processes go forward the risks of similar actions materializing in the future are predictable; and, j) During the working session in which the current provisional measures were requested, the State was opposed to them on the grounds that it had managed to meet the beneficiaries’ demands and to protect them from harm. In particular, the State “[m]aintained that they have provided strong personal security protection schemes for some of [the] members [of the ICJP] and general measures with respect to the organization’s main office,” and that all