A/HRC/16/22 (c) In Argelia (Cauca), on 10 January, members of the FARC-EP stopped and detained an ambulance, killing a boy who had been injured by this same guerrilla group. (d) On 25 March, members of the FARC-EP were attributed responsibility for the death of a 12-year-old boy on 25 March who was used as a “child-bomb” during an attack on a police station. Other nine civilians and three policemen were injured. (e) In Pradera (Valle del Cauca), members of the FARC-EP were presumably responsible for the death on 1 May of a peasant farmer they accused of collaborating with the public security forces. 13. The FARC-EP continued to hold civilians and members of public security forces in cruel and inhuman conditions, in some cases for over 13 years, such as the Army sergeant Jose Libio Martínez, deprived of his freedom for reasons relating to the conflict from 21 December 1997. In 2010, guerrilla groups continued to take hostages. (a) On 6 February, the Government Secretary of Araquita (Arauca) was taken hostage by members of the FARC-EP. (b) In Tadó (Chocó) on 8 June, ELN guerrillas took three road workers hostages. (c) In Puerto Rico (Meta), the FARC-EP allegedly took hostage a fisherman on 1 August, who remains missing. 14. OHCHR-Colombia also documented cases of threats by guerrilla groups. (a) On 11 May the FARC-EP had allegedly threatened an indigenous leader in Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca). (b) On 2 July, several public officials from Ituango (Antioquia) received threats allegedly from the FARC-EP. 15. Guerrilla groups continue to use antipersonnel mines and Antioquia is one of the departments that has been the most affected. (a) In May the FARC-EP allegedly mined schools in Anorí (Antioquia). (b) On 4 June, a woman and two girls were wounded by an antipersonnel mine in Sabanalarga (Antioquia), possibly planted by the FARC-EP. (c) On 6 July, two indigenous children were injured by an antipersonnel mine in Tame (Arauca), allegedly placed by a guerrilla group. (d) Authorities reported that on 10 September the FARC-EP had allegedly placed explosives in the body of one of the policemen killed during an attack on police stations in San Miguel (Putumayo). 16. OHCHR-Colombia also received complaints of recruitment of children by guerrilla groups in several departments, in particular Antioquia, Cauca and Chocó. (a) In January, in Alto Baudó (Chocó), the ELN recruited three children, including two girls. (b) In Jambaló (Cauca), eight children were recruited in February, allegedly by the FARC-EP. (c) In February, the FARC-EP presumably attempted to recruit at least 19 boys and girls in Ituango (Antioquia). 17. OHCHR-Colombia registered several cases of terrorism attributed by authorities to the FARC-EP. 25

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