A/HRC/10/32 page 30 32. OHCHR Colombia received information on arbitrary restrictions imposed by the army on the transport of persons and goods such as food, medicines and fuel. Since January, for example, troops of the 20th Mobile Brigade have been restricting the transport of food to several districts of the municipality of El Dovio, Valle del Cauca, as a strategy in their campaign against the illegal armed groups. 33. OHCHR Colombia has received reports of injuries to civilians, including children, caused by crossfire in clashes between the army and FARC-EP in rural areas of the department of Arauca. In one incident on 15 September, an 18-month-old girl was shot and lost an eye. 3. Kidnappings 34. The guerrilla groups continued kidnapping people. In one case four students, one of them a minor, were allegedly kidnapped by FARC-EP on 5 October in San José de Purré in Quibdó, Chocó. On 22 March a doctor was allegedly kidnapped by FARC-EP in Ocaña, Norte de Santander. 35. On 31 July five workers at a contractor for Ecopetrol were kidnapped in the town centre of Orú in Tibú, Norte de Santander, allegedly by ELN. E. Illegal armed groups that have emerged since demobilization of paramilitary organizations 36. OHCHR Colombia has noted that offences thought to have been committed by illegal armed groups that have emerged since the paramilitary demobilization have led to high levels of violence against the civilian population. 37. Some of the killings allegedly committed by such groups could be characterized as “social cleansing”, but in some municipalities and departments the rise in the number of killings seems to be attributable to disputes between the groups themselves over control of territory and illicit trade. Thus during the reporting period at least 70 people are thought to have died in Córdoba department alone as a result of clashes between a group apparently headed by someone known as Don Mario and another group called Los Paisas. 38. In January more than 50 selective killings in the cities of Barrancabermeja, Bucaramanga and Cúcuta alone were reported to OHCHR Colombia. 39. In May, in the community of Pizarro de Bajo Baudó, Chocó, nine people were allegedly killed by a group known as Los Rastrojos. The same group allegedly murdered a prostitute in Orito, Putumayo, on 26 March. A community leader from Curvaradó, Chocó, was murdered on the day he was to testify against a number of paramilitaries in a Medellín court. 40. On 24 May, the group known as Autodefensas Campesinas Nueva Generación (New Generation Peasant Self-Defence Forces) (AC-NG) allegedly forced more than 200 displaced persons who had arrived in Sánchez in Policarpa, Nariño, at the beginning of the month, to return to their homes. AC-NG are allegedly responsible for death threats against human rights

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