A/HRC/4/48 page 26 ANNEXES Annex I REPRESENTATIVE CASES OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND BREACHES OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAWa I. HUMAN RIGHTS Civil and political rights A. Right to life 1. During 2006, the OHCHR Office in Colombia received reports of multiple cases of violation of the right to life through extrajudicial executions. Throughout the year there was a significant increase in reports of crimes of this kind attributed to members of the security forces, especially members of the army and the police. In the majority of these cases, repeating the pattern of previous years, the murder victims were presented as members of guerrilla groups or other illegal armed groups who had been shot in combat. 2. Although in Antioquia, as from May, there were fewer cases of extrajudicial executions attributable to military personnel, this department continues to show some of the highest figures for executions at the national level. Among the executions recorded there was that of four peasant farmers in the municipality of Yarumal on 14 March; this was attributed to members of the army’s Fourth Brigade. 3. Departments which recorded an increase in the number of extrajudicial executions attributed to army and police personnel were Atlántico, Caquetá, Cesar, Guajira, Nariño, Putumayo, Tolima and Valle del Cauca. On 12 January, in Augustín Codazzi (Department of Cesar), the deaths of two farmers were attributed to soldiers from No. 2 Artillery Battalion “La Popa”. Likewise, on 15 February in San Vicente del Caguán (Caquetá), the deaths of two people were attributed to members of the “Cazadores” Battalion. On 23 April in Ipiales (Nariño), the death of a 19-year-old man was attributed to soldiers from the Mechanized Infantry Battalion “José María Cabal”. On 18 May in Puerto Asís (Putumayo), the disappearance and subsequent extrajudicial execution of an indigenous Awá were attributed to members of the Energy and Transport Plan Battalion. a Due to restrictions of space, the most serious violations of human rights and the most serious breaches of international humanitarian law have been included in Annex I. Nevertheless, the right to freedom of movement and residence and the right to privacy and inviolability of the home, as well as attacks against medical missions and health units and looting, are considered within the observation work and recorded in the Office’s database.