-82Concerning the damages caused to the next of kin of the alleged victims and the costs and expenses 95(160) The inhabitants of Pueblo Bello were subjected to a situation of terror and anguish on the night of January 14, 1990, and several of them saw how a paramilitary group took their family members and the others who were abducted.184 95(161) The alleged victims’ next of kin have suffered pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage as a direct result of the facts; this has affected their physical and psychological health, had an impact on their social and labor relations, altered their family dynamics and, in some cases, jeopardized the lives and safety of some of their members, who lost their property and were threatened constantly by the paramilitary groups. The partial impunity that exists in this case has caused and continues to cause suffering to the alleged victims’ next of kin. As a result of the facts, especially the damage suffered by the families, the next of kin’s fear that similar events could be repeated, and the threats received by some of them, several Pueblo Bello families have displaced internally. This situation takes several different forms; there are individuals or families who were temporally displaced and have returned to the jurisdiction; others were forced to displace intermittently immediately after the facts or subsequently. Also, some people have had to leave Colombia.185 95(162) The Comisión Colombiana de Juristas, ASFADDES and CEJIL have incurred expenses relating to the processing of this case at the domestic level and before the organs of the inter-American system for the protection of human rights, in representation of the next of kin of some of the alleged victims.186 184 Cf. ordinary judgment delivered by the Medellín Regional Court on May 26, 1997 (file of attachments to the application brief, tome II, attachment C2, folio 344, 345, 365 and 389), judgment of December 30, 1997, delivered by the Sentencing Chamber of the Tribunal Nacional (file of attachments to the application brief, tome II, attachment C3, folios 419, 451, 452, 463 and 464); decision of November 27, 1991, issued by the Office of the Delegate Attorney for the defense of human rights (file of attachments to the answer to the application, attachment 1, folio 1685); judgment of February 9, 2001, issued by the Disciplinary Chamber of the Attorney General’s Office (file of attachments to the brief with the answer to the application, attachment 2, folio 1739); report submitted by the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) on September 12, 1990 (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, attachment 5(2), folio 1537); testimonies of Mariano Manuel Martínez and Ángel Emiro Jiménez Romero given before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on September 19, 2005, and statements made before notary public (affidavits) by Leovigilda Villalba Sánchez, María Cecilia Ruiz de Álvarez, Edilma de Jesús Monroy Higuita, Eliécer Manuel Meza Acosta and Benildo José Ricardo Herrera on August 16, 2005 (file of statements made before or authenticated by notary public, folios 2700, 2701, 2705, 2710, 2711, 2716 and 2725). 185 Cf. testimonies of Mariano Manuel Martínez, José Daniel Álvarez, Rubén Díaz Romero, Ángel Emiro Jiménez Romero, Blanca Libia Moreno Cossio and Nancy Amparo Guerra López given before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on September 19, 2005, and statements made before notary public (affidavits) by Leovigilda Villalba Sánchez, María Cecilia Ruiz de Álvarez, Edilma de Jesús Monroy Higuita, Eliécer Manuel Meza Acosta, Pedro Luis Escobar Duarte, Euclides Manuel Calle Álvarez, Genaro Benito Calderón Ruiz, Manuel Dolores López Cuadro and Benildo José Ricardo Herrera on August 16, 2005 (file of statements made before or authenticated by notary public, folios 2703, 2704, 2708, 2713, 2717, 2718, 2722, 2727, 2730, 2734, 2739, 2740 and 2744). 186 Cf. vouchers for costs and expenses incurred by the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas, CEJIL and ASFADDES (attachments to the requests and arguments brief, tome V, attachment 6(2) to 6(6), folios 1575 to 1639).

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