Franclin, and Daniel Antonio, all of them Cuarán Muchavisoy, Amanda Anacona Chapal de Cuarán and Diana Vanessa Cuarán Anacona; and 211,601,618.1 million Colombian pesos for the next of kin of Artemio Pantoja Ordóñez, who are: Segundo Jorge Pantoja Moreno, Pastora Ordóñez, Blanca Elina, Faustino, María Bertila, María del Carmen, and Luis Edmundo, all of them Pantoja Ordóñez, María Adelina López, Miriam Lucy, Adalí Oneida, Carmen Lidia, Carmen Leonor, Jaime, Aura Esperanza, and Artemio Ramiro, all of them Pantoja López.71 Other actions taken by various administrative and judicial authorities in connection with the facts of the case p) Disciplinary proceeding before the Police Department of Putumayo: on January 24, 1991 the Investigative and Disciplinary Bureau of the Office of the Commander of the Police Department of Putumayo opened a disciplinary proceeding against the Agents of the National Police who had participated in the January 23, 1991 operation in Mocoa. On January 25, 1991 the investigative official declared the investigation closed because he deemed that the police officers investigated were not disciplinarily responsible for the death of the victims. On January 28, 1991 the Commander of the Police Department of Putumayo endorsed “each and every part” of the criterion of the investigative official and cleared the policemen investigated of all disciplinary responsibility for the death of the victims.72 q) Office of the Attorney General of the Republic: On January 23, 1991, the Government Attorneys’ Office in Putumayo took several steps in connection with the facts of the instant case. On the following day it ordered the opening of a “preliminary disciplinary investigation” to conduct an investigation of the military and police forces in Putumayo regarding the facts of the case and on February 22, 1991 it issued its “evaluative report” of the preliminary actions. On October 16, 1991 the Visiting Attorney of the Delegate Government Attorneys’ Office for Human Rights issued its evaluative report and concluded that the Police Department of Putumayo “in record time,” five days after the facts, exonerated all the police staff who participated in the operation at the school, “thus exhausting the administrative proceedings,” and it recommended that the Police commander and the investigative officer who were responsible for the decision on the disciplinary investigation be investigated for possible malfeasance of office. 73 r) Criminal proceedings for malfeasance of office: on May 4, 1995 the 52d Military Criminal Magistrates’ Court of the Office of the General Inspector of the National Police opened criminal proceedings to investigate possible malfeasance of office by the police commander and the investigative officer who were responsible 71 Cf. March 27, 1995 Resolution No. 0887 of the Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of Colombia. 72 Cf. January 24, 1991 writ by the Commander of the Police Department of Putumayo of the National Police in which he appoints an investigative official and secretary for the ordinary proceeding; January 24, 1991 writ ordering information on the disciplinary investigation, signed by the Investigative Official of the Office for Investigation and Discipline of the Putumayo Police Department Command of the National Police; January 25, 1991 Order of the Investigative Official of the Office for Investigation and Discipline of the Putumayo Police Department of the National Police; and January 28, 1991 of the Putumayo Police Department Commander of the National Police. 73 Cf. file of actions taken by the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (Government Attorneys’ Office in Putumayo and Government Attorneys’ Office in charge of the Protection of Human Rights), evidence supplied by the State during the merits phase of Las Palmeras Case.

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