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(c)
On 7 July, two young men disappeared in Medellín (Antioquia) and were
found dead the following day. According to information collected by OHCHR-Colombia,
the victims had apparently been detained by National Police officers the night before and
handed over to a criminal group.
(d)
In Barbacoas (Nariño), on 12 September, National Police officers shot at a
group of persons who ignored or did not hear their order to stop, killing one person and
wounding seven others. The police agents apparently mistook them for members of a
criminal group.
5.
OHRHR-Colombia is monitoring the prosecution of several cases of extrajudicial
executions in which the safety of the families of victims and the witnesses is a matter of
concern.
(a)
Reports conducted by the National Police found that at least eight of the
mothers whose sons disappeared in Soacha (Cundinamarca) in 2008 and were subsequently
reported by the Army as killed in combat in other municipalities around the country, were
in situations they describe as “of extraordinary risk”.
(b)
In Antioquia, Bogotá and Valle del Cauca, among others, complaints were
registered of intimidation and threats against witnesses for the Attorney General’s Office or
their families, in cases of alleged extrajudicial executions attributed to members of the
Army.
D.
Illegal armed groups that have emerged after the demobilization of
paramilitary organisations.
6.
It is a matter of concern the expansion and intensity of the acts of violence
perpetrated against the population by illegal armed groups that emerged after
demobilization of paramilitary organisations, as illustrated below:
(a)
On 21 March, seven persons, including two children, were victims of a
massacre committed in Puerto Libertador (Córdoba) as a consequence of a dispute between
Los Urabeños, Los Rastrojos and Los Paisas. On the same day, members of the Águilas
Negras allegedly committed a massacre in the same place, killing three boatmen.
(b)
In El Charco (Nariño), on 1 October, alleged members of Los Rastrojos
murdered five members of a family.
(c)
On 21 March, a 17-year-old girl was killed in Puerto Libertador (Córdoba),
presumably by members of Los Urabeños, after she refused to have sexual relations with
the leader of the group in that area.
(d)
In Medellín (Antioquia), on 2 April, a sicario murdered Diego Fernando
Escobar Múnera, a judge of the Eighth Criminal Circuit of Medellín. The authorities
attributed his death to members of an illegal armed group that emerged after the
demobilization of paramilitary organisations.
(e)
On 11 April, Yolanda Isabel Álvarez Ibáñez, governor of the La Esperanza
indigenous cabildo, and her husband were murdered in Montelibano (Córdoba). Authorities
have attributed this crime to members of Los Paisas. On 23 November, a 14-year-old boy
was murdered in this same municipality, presumably by members of Los Urabeños.
(f)
In Puerto Rico (Meta), on 12 August, members of the Popular Revolutionary
Anti-Subversive Army of Colombia (ERPAC) allegedly murdered a 15-year-old girl, who
received over 40 stab wounds.
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