A/HRC/10/32 page 26 Annex EXAMPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND BREACHES OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW 1. By way of illustration a number of cases that have come to the attention of OHCHR Colombia are described below. These are in addition to the cases mentioned in the body of the report and involve human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law during the reporting period. A. Extrajudicial executions 2. OHCHR Colombia continued to note a high number of alleged extrajudicial executions in Antioquia department. In Montebello, for example, a person was murdered on 4 January, allegedly by members of the General Pedro Nel Ospina 4th Battalion of Combat Engineers. In Yondó two persons were murdered on 30 January, allegedly by the Calibío Battalion. In Segovia a youth of 16 was murdered on 1 February, allegedly by the 8th Special Energy and Highways Battalion. 3. Other cases that may have involved this troubling practice were noted in other departments. In Puerto Asís, Putumayo, two persons were murdered on 7 March, and presented as guerrillas killed in action, by the 87th Counter-Guerrilla Battalion of the 13th Mobile Brigade. In Sabana de Torres, Santander, four persons were murdered on 19 February, allegedly by the 5th Brigade. In Algeciras, Huila, one person was murdered on 23 February, allegedly by the 9th Brigade. 4. Allegations of extrajudicial execution were reported to OHCHR Colombia following the victims’ disappearance. In Ábrego, Norte de Santander, a person who had been reported missing on 13 January in Soacha, Cundinamarca, was found dead on 15 January. The disappearance and murder of this person were allegedly the work of the General Santander 15th Battalion. Members of the 15th Battalion also presented a minor who appeared to suffer from mental disability and who had disappeared a day earlier in Gamarra, Cesar, as a guerrilla killed in action on 31 August in Ábrego, Norte de Santander. In Ocaña, Norte de Santander, two persons, one of them a minor, who had previously disappeared in Soacha, Cundinamarca, were presented on 27 January as guerrillas killed in action by members of the 15th Mobile Brigade. 5. OHCHR Colombia also received complaints of possible extrajudicial executions attributed to the police. In Bogotá on 22 April, police officers allegedly killed the Chairperson of the civil service union, a member of the Union of Officials of the District Accountant’s Office. On 26 May the Office received another complaint, concerning the alleged extrajudicial execution of a person previously detained by police in Pereira, Risaralda. B. Unlawful and arbitrary detention 6. OHCHR Colombia was informed of unlawful and arbitrary detention, in some cases of individuals, in others of groups, in several departments. It was reported that the police and the army appeared to have made arrests on the basis of uncorroborated statements by informers, where there were no grounds of flagrante delicto and no arrest warrant.