-69- FIRST: ASFADDES personnel should be contacted in order to expand and clarify the contents of their latest communication, especially with regard to the location of the common grave, situated in the San Antonio cemetery of the municipality of Montería, Córdoba, where there are possibly some unidentified corpses […] SECOND: An official communication should be sent to the administrator of the San Antonio cemetery requesting him to advise whether there is a project to pave land within this cemetery. If so, he should inform all those concerned about this project, advising which authority, institution or entity ordered it and when it will be executed. THIRD: Through the Secretariat, an official communication should be sent to the National Forensic Directorate in Bogotá, informing it that this investigation is being continued and asking it to advise which judicial officials have been involved in it. FOURTH: Once this information has been obtained, a decision must be take on the viability of ordering the exhumation procedure in the San Antonio cemetery, in the municipality of Montería, to make it possible to fully identify the corpses […] FIFTH: All the arrest warrants ordered in the case file which have not been executed should be reactivated […]138 95(112) On May 15, 2003, ASFADDES, the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas and the Corporación “Opción Legal” requested a meeting with the head of the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit to discuss the exhumations programmed for May 20, 2003, because, at that time of year, the site conditions were inappropriate, owing to the weather.139 95(113) On June 1, 2003, ASFADDES and the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas sent a note to the prosecutor of the Medellín Human Rights Unit, requesting: (a) That the pending exhumation procedure should be agreed and coordinated with the next of kin of the victims and the petitioners. (b) That, when performing this exhumation procedure, the Bogotá Technical Investigation Corps should draw on elements that have already been used in the search and identification of the victims. (c) That experts in the collection of this type of evidence should be present during the exhumation procedure to ensure the identification of the remains of the disappeared victims. (d) That the presence of the next of kin of the victims and the petitioners is guaranteed during this procedure. (e) That we are provided with information on the investigation […]140. 95(114) Between August 19 and 25, 2003, the Technical Investigation Corps of the Prosecutor General’s Office made a judicial inspection in the San Antonio cemetery, Montería, to exhume the corpses of 18 alleged victims of the events of Pueblo Bello. The result of the procedure was negative.141 138 Cf. decision of February 21, 2003, issued by the National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, tome V, attachment 7(5), folios 1651 to 1654). 139 Cf. note of March 15, 2003, from ASFADDES, the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas and the Corporación Opción Legal to the National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit (file of documents received during the public hearing, folios 2758 and 2759). 140 Cf. note of June 1, 2003, from ASFADDES and the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas to the Prosecutor of the Medellín Human Rights Unit (file of documents received during the public hearing, folio 2760). 141 Cf. report of November 24, 2003, issued by Identification Unit of the Technical Investigation Corps of the Prosecutor General’s Office (file of useful evidence submitted by the State, folios 5653 to 5660).

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