A/HRC/7/39 page 27 Annex REPRESENTATIVE CASES OF VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND BREACHES OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW I. VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS A. The right to life 1. The office in Colombia of OHCHR received complaints of violations of the right to life by extrajudicial execution. In most cases, these executions followed the same pattern observed in previous years: the victims were civilians who were presented as members of guerrilla groups or other illegal armed groups, reported as killed in combat. 2. The office in Colombia reported several of these cases to the competent authorities. In Riohacha, La Guajira, members of the Cartagena Battalion were allegedly responsible for the death of a peasant farmer affected by mental disability. On 2 May 2007, in Hato Corozal, Casanare, there was the death of a community leader, in events attributed to members of the Counter-Guerrilla Battalion No. 65. On 13 May, in Pueblo Bello, Cesar, a murder was allegedly perpetrated by soldiers of Brigade 10. In Orito Putumayo, members of Mobile Brigade 13 were allegedly responsible for the death of 3 civilians on 9 September. 3. Other violations of the right to life were reported to have been committed by members of the Army. In Buenaventura, on 3 August, soldiers of the Cisneros Task Force were allegedly responsible for opening fire against students, whom they confused with guerrillas. A girl of 14 died. On 17 September, in Montelíbano, Cordoba, soldiers of Brigade 11 reportedly opened fire against two peasant farmers who were under the effects of alcohol, one of whom died. Two soldiers of Brigade IX were condemned for the killings of six civilians perpetrated on 10 June in San Vicente del Caguan, Caqueta. 4. The office in Colombia received complaints of extrajudicial executions attributed to members of the Police. These include the death of three individuals on 25 March in Ipiales, Nariño. On 8 September, the killing of a young man aged 22 in El Carmen, Bolivar, was allegedly perpetrated by members of the Sectional Judicial Police SIJIN, in an act which had characteristics of “social cleansing”. In Zulia, Norte de Santander, a man died on 3 July after being shot by members of the Mobile Rifles Squadron, EMCAR, in a manoeuvre which the police officers considered to be suspicious. 5. The office was also informed of several murders of human rights defenders, union members and other social leaders. On 28 January, the president of the Municipal Committee for the Displaced population in La Cotorra, Cordoba, was murdered. In Montería, on 31 January, there was the murder of Yolanda Izquierdo, the leader of the displaced who coordinated a collective movement to recover lands usurped by paramilitary groups. In Medellín, Antioquia, on 23 April, the president of the Community Action Board of the El Pesebre district of Commune 13, who was also the adviser to the Asociación Madres de la Canderlaria (Mothers’ Association of La Canderlaria) was murdered, allegedly because of her work in making denunciations. On 7 November, in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, the murder of the Coordinator of