7 For the State of Colombia: Germán Sánchez Vargas, Coordinator of the Prevention and Tension Reduction Group at the Ministry of the Interior; Colonel Luis Alfonso Novoa, Head of the Human Rights Group of the National Police; Marcela Briceño-Donn, Director for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Andrée Viana, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Verónica Gómez, Representative of the Commission; and Abilio Peña Buendía, from the “Comisión Intercongregacional de Justicia y Paz,” as an Assistant to the Commission. 10. The arguments of the Commission, presented at the aforementioned public hearing, are summarized as follows: a) The mechanisms established and steps taken by the State in the framework of human rights policy and international humanitarian law, implementation of the early warning system and coordination efforts with the Vice-Presidency to ensure protection of the members of the Peace Community, have been insufficient to ensure the right to life and to humane treatment of the members of the Peace Community and to avoid major and irreparable damage such as that which has been occurring since June, 2001. b) There are strategies to attack the Community that involve individuals who, although they are not members of the Community, provide services to it, such as the truckers who take or bring foodstuffs between San José and Apartadó. The Commission is concerned about “how they are going to be protected, [in the case of] a private company that takes food to them, they also want to have safety.” There are acts of violence that perhaps do not directly involve members of the Community, but that take place in nearby areas, in which case the distinction is less clear. But when they are against individuals who offer a service to the Community, it seems that the reason they have been attacked is due to their ties with the Community. These persons should be taken into account when assessing compliance with the provisional measures. c) The State has the obligation to protect its civilian population, in accordance with the relevant norms, specifically those of the American Convention and generally those of International Human Rights Law, as well as those of International Humanitarian Law. d) The Commission requested that the Court order the State to: i) maintain the provisional measures ordered by the Court in its November 24, 2000 Order; ii) develop a “transition process” to follow up on steps taken by the State, in light of the change of government administration in August of this year;