A/HRC/16/22
(a)
On 13 January, two police agents from the Belén station in Medellín
(Antioquia) had allegedly beaten two young men and some of their friends and family
members repeatedly while they were being searched by police on the street and
subsequently at the Police station.
(b)
On 21 February, during an operation in Mapiripán (Meta) to capture
members of an illegal armed group that emerged after demobilization of paramilitary
groups, members of the National Police allegedly detained illegally a person and tortured
him physically and psychologically while insisting him to provide them with information
on members of the group.
(c)
In Araquita (Arauca), on 24 May, two young men were allegedly beaten
while detained by police agents.
(d)
The perception of impunity in cases of complaints of torture is evident in the
words of a policy agent from Medellín, who responded to a victim who intended to accuse
him of torture by saying that he had already been accused of “48 counts of torture and did
not care about one more”.
(e)
On 28 November 2003, a peasant farmer was tortured in Ituango (Antioquia).
Seven years later, the Procurator General dismissed five professional soldiers for a period
of 15 years.
J.
Forced displacement
23.
During 2010, there were reports of cases of forced displacement, both individual and
collective. It was a matter of concern the high rate of murders of displaced persons.
(a)
In Valencia (Córdoba), on 17 February, “Los Urabeños” allegedly killed
Teófilo Vidal Vidal. The victim had been working for the restitution of land taken by the
Héroes de Tolová Bloc of the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) from
internally displaced persons.
(b)
On 24 November, Oscar Maussa was killed in San Juan Nepomuceno
(Bolívar). He was forcibly displaced in 1997 by a paramilitary group in the village of
Blanquicet, municipality of Turbo (Antioquia), along with 11 families belonging to the
Agricultural Workers Cooperative of Blanquicet (COTRAGROBLAN). Mr. Maussa, had
been granted precautionary protection measures by the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights in September 2006.
(c)
On 15 August, members of Los Rastrojos allegedly killed a community
leader in Medio Baudó (Chocó) and forcibly displaced 50 families.
(d)
In Santa Bárbara (Nariño), on 2 October, Los Rastrojos allegedly caused the
forced displacement of 40 families.
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