A/HRC/13/72 (b) The killing of two fishermen and the enforced disappearance of another five in Litoral de San Juan (Chocó), on 19 March, were attributed by the authorities to the same illegal armed group “Los Rastrojos”; (c) Between 2 and 3 November, eight Afro-Colombians, members of the same family, were killed in Barbacoas (Nariño) by individuals who presented themselves as members of the illegal armed group “Águilas Negras”; (d) In the Bajo Cauca region (Antioquia), during the first semester of 2009, members of the different illegal armed groups in the region were recruiting and using children for logistics activities, intelligence work and selective killings (sicariato); (e) In July, officers of the National Police in Córdoba captured two demobilized paramilitary members, who were travelling in a public bus with 16 newly recruited youths. The youths were recruited to join the different illegal armed groups conducting activities in the south of the department; (f) In Meta, in mid-2009, the illegal armed group Popular Revolutionary AntiCommunist Army of Colombia (ERPAC) was reported to have been recruiting and using youths from marginalized neighbourhoods from various municipalities, primarily with promises of short-term employment. The families have not heard from these youths since their reported recruitment. International humanitarian law Guerrilla groups Guerrilla groups continued to disregard and reject international humanitarian law, attacking and killing civilians, especially members of indigenous peoples, planting antipersonnel mines, recruiting and using children, causing forced displacements and kidnapping, among other breaches, as exemplified below: (a) On 4 January, in La Vega (Cauca), members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) were allegedly responsible for the death of an 11-year-old boy who had witnessed the murder of his father at the hands of the same guerrilla group; (b) On 13 January, in Roberto Payán (Nariño), members of FARC-EP attacked a police station with cylinder bombs, instantly killing two girls and one boy in a sports field; (c) In Urrao (Antioquia), on 5 February, FARC-EP was reported to have killed two Afro-Colombian youths and to have been responsible for the displacement of 10 families who fled their homes following accusations by FARC-EP of being collaborators of the army; (d) On 19 February, in Barbacoas (Nariño), members of FARC-EP killed 11 Awá indigenous people, including several children and two pregnant women; (e) In March and October, during the blockades imposed by armed forces by FARC-EP in Arauca and Putumayo, the civilian population suffered severe restrictions to free movement and access to medicine, food and fuel; (f) In Villavicencio (Meta), on 6 March, members of FARC-EP were allegedly responsible for attacks against the aqueduct that provides drinking water to the city, leaving its 300,000 inhabitants without water for more than 10 days; (g) Between April and June, over 180 people from different rural communities in Ituango (Antioquia) remained isolated for two months, as a result of antipersonnel mines laid by FARC-EP; GE.10-11819 27

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