A/HRC/16/22 Annex Illustrative cases of violations of human rights and breaches of international humanitarian law 1. As a complement to the High Commissioner’s report on the situation of human rights in Colombia, and by way of illustration, a number of cases of human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law that have come to the attention of the office in Colombia of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (“OHCHR-Colombia”) during the reporting period are described below. A. Human rights defenders 2. The following are illustrative cases of killings, kidnappings, threats, arbitrary detentions, NGO’s offices break-ins, and information theft against human rights defenders, which have been attributed to members of illegal armed groups that emerged after the demobilization of paramilitary organisations, members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), as well as state agents. OHCHR-Colombia is especially concerned about the murder of leaders, peasant farmers and internally displaced persons involved in land restitution cases, particularly in the departments of Antioquia, Cauca and Sucre. (a) In San Onofre (Sucre), on 18 May, Rogelio Martínez was murdered. Mr. Martínez, a member of the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE), Sucre section, was a leader of a group of families that returned to the “La Alemania” farm in 2007, and since 2009 entered the Ministry of Interior and Justice Protection Programme due to what the Police classified as “extraordinary risk”. (b) On 23 May, Alexander Quintero, who worked defending victims’ rights of the Alto Naya massacre in 2001 and promoting processes of peaceful coexistence and articulation between Afro-descendent, indigenous and peasant farmer communities in Alto Naya, was killed in Santander de Quilichao (Cauca). (c) On 10 August, Jair Murillo, leader of the Afro-Colombian organisation of internally displaced persons in Buenaventura, Fundacion Integral del Pacifico Nariñense (Integrated Foundation of the Pacific coast in Nariño), was murdered in Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca). (d) On 19 September, Hernando Pérez, a peasant farmer who along with other leaders acted as liaison between peasant farmers and the Association of Victims for Restitution of Land and Assets (ASOVIRESTIBI) in Uraba (Antioquia) to promote claims for land stolen by paramilitary groups, was killed in Necoclí (Antioquia). (e) In January, fictional pages appeared on Facebook accusing several human rights defenders and members of NGOs, as well as academics of the Antioquia University, of being sympathizers of FARC-EP. (f) In September, a human rights defender was forced to leave Itagüí (Antioquia) after receiving threats from criminal groups when the NGO he worked with denounced the wave of violence being caused by confrontations between these groups in the city. (g) On 8 July, four human rights defenders were kidnapped by members of the ELN in Teorama (Norte de Santander) and were released a few days later. 20