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163. On April 2, 2009, an arraignment hearing was held before the Magistrate with duties to
Oversee and Guarantee [constitutional enforcement] of the Superior Court of Bogotá for Justice and
Peace.283 Ramón Isaza accepted the charges stemming from the crimes in the instant case and on April
22 that year, the Justice and Peace Chamber of the Superior Court of the Judicial District requested the
UNDH to suspend the investigation of Ramón Isaza into the crimes of abduction and homicide.284 In
September 2009, the attorney for the victims’ families requested that the punishable conduct with
which Ramón Isaza was charged, be changed as well for other individuals who may have been actual
perpetrators and intellectual authors to the crime of forced disappearance.285
164. Based on information available to the public, the case of Ramón Isaza under the Justice
and Peace Law is ongoing.286
4.2.
Criminal Case No. 752.065
165. On December 30, María del Rocío Cardona Fernández and María de la Cruz Hernández
Gallego filed one complaint each with the Unit of Cocorná of the Office of the Attorney General of the
Nation for crimes occurring on December 27, 1996 against Leonidas Cardona Giraldo and Andrés
Antonio Gallego Castaño.287 Both complaints, as well as the statement of one witness, recount the
aforementioned events (see supra paras. 125-128) and concur in claiming that the Self-Defense Forces
of Magdalena Medio, as well as the members of the military forces of La Piñuela military base were
responsible.288 On February 11, 1997, the Regional Office of the Attorney General Assigned to the Gaula
of Antioquia took over the investigation of the crime of abduction.289 On April 2, 1997, the Regional
Gaula Investigative Unit of Antioquia requested that the complainants add further detail to their
283
Annex 5. Official Letter No. 003383 D.2JYP of the National Unit of Prosecutor’s Offices for Justice and Peace, signed
by the Prosecutor Assigned to the district court Carlos Gordillo Lombana, addressed to Prosecutor 53 Assigned to the Criminal
Circuit Court Judges, dated July 13, 2009. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 12. Pages 353-354. Compact disk attached to
petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010.
284
Annex 9. Official Letter No. 1642 from the Justice and Peace Chamber of the Superior Court of the Judicial District,
signed by clerk Jorge Cruz Rojas, addressed to the First Office of the Prosecutor of the National Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law Unit, dated April 22, 2009. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 12. Page 206. Compact disk attached to
petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010.
285
Annex 9. Letter signed by Liliana Uribe Tirado addressed to the National Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated September 2009. Case File No. 233 UNDH.
Book No. 12. Pages 233-254. Compact disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010.
286
See: http://www.fiscalia.gov.co/jyp/definicion/programacion_audiencias/
287
Annex 8. Complaint of María del Rocío Cardona Fernández filed with the Office of the Attorney General of the
Nation, dated December 30, 1996. SIFUJ No. 752.065. Office of Special Prosecutor 53 assigned to the Rural Gaula Eastern
Antioquia. Pages 1-2. Compact disk attached to petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010; Annex 8. Complaint of María de
la Cruz Hernández Gallego filed with the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated December 30, 1996. SIFUJ No.
752.065. Office of Special Prosecutor 53 assigned to the Rural Gaula Eastern Antioquia. Pages 3. Compact disk attached to
petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.
288
Annex 43. Statement of Gabriel de Jesús Cardona Fernández to the Office of the Municipal Ombudsman of El
Carmen de Viboral, dated December 30, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ communication of September 1, 2004.
289
Annex 8. Official Letter signed by regional deputy prosecutor Néstor Niño López, dated February 11, 1997. SIFUJ
No. 752.065. Office of Special Prosecutor 53 assigned to the Rural Gaula Eastern Antioquia. Page 8. Compact disk attached to
petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.