A/HRC/7/39 page 31 27. There were also reports of threats by members of FARC-EP against journalists. These included threats against journalists in Arauca and Saravena on 7 August, for not having read out a press release made by this group. 28. On 20 March and 6 June, the illegal armed group AC-NG made death threats on the Internet against several human rights defender organizations, the Pastoral Social of Tumaco, and the Mayor of Samaniego, accusing them of being “terrorists and couriers of human rights”. B. Attacks against the civilian population and indiscriminate attacks 29. On 20 August, guerrillas of the FARC-EP attacked an Army armoured car, which caused the death of a civilian and wounded five more. On 9 April, an attack with a car bomb destroyed the police headquarters in Cali, causing the death of one person, wounding 41, and damaging 240 properties. 30. On 29 April, in Puerto Asis, Putumayo, devices placed by members of FARC-EP exploded and damaged property. 31. In Nariño, clashes between FARC-EP and ELN throughout the year led to blockades of food, medicines and fuel, a crisis in the health and hygiene system, and the isolation of communities due to the planting of minefields. 32. On 3 September, members of FARC-EP stopped a bus on the Medellín-Anori road and forced the passengers to step out of the vehicle. In Teorama, Norte de Santander, members of FARC-EP blocked traffic for five days, by placing a truck belonging to the municipality across the road, and saying that they had planted a bomb in it. 33. In Lopez, Cauca, in February, members of Mobile Brigade No. 14 allegedly imposed restrictions on the provision of food and fuel. On 9 October, in Orito, Putumayo, troops of the Anti-Narcotics Brigade stopped a health brigade truck from entering the rural district of Santa Lucia. C. Acts of terrorism 34. In Carmen de Viboral, Antioquia, on 19 May, numbers of FARC-EP were allegedly responsible for the murder of two peasant farmers, and for having dynamited their houses in order to intimidate the population. FARC-EP were reported to have mounted a number of attacks in Cali and Buenaventura, including 5 on 23 June, which left 23 wounded. D. The taking of hostages 35. The office in Colombia was informed of the kidnapping of nine geologists in Choco on 13 March, by FARC-EP; of four contractors of an oil company in Saravena on 12 March; and of a businessman in Caldas in a rural area of Manizales on 1 May, who subsequently died in a military operation. On 22 January, four peasant farmers were kidnapped by members of the ELN in Hacarí, Norte de Santander.

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