A/HRC/13/31 Colombia Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review: 8 Cases clarified during the period under review: 0 Cases sent under the urgent action procedure Cases sent under the standard procedure 0 8 955 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 37 Government Nongovernmental sources Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 0 0 963 Multiple replies on some cases Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6month rule) No 0 General allegations Yes Government response Yes Prompt intervention letter Yes Government response No Working Group request for a visit N/A Government response N/A Standard procedures 136. The Working Group transmitted eight newly-reported cases to the Government. The first seven cases concerned Israel Roca Martinez, Edilbero Linares Correa, Jaime Barrios Ovalle, Mario Anillo Trochez, Danilo Carrera Aguancha, Hugo Quintero Solano and Carlos Ibarra Bernal, experts of the Technical Investigation Brigade who disappeared together on 9 March 2000, in Manguillo village, La Paz, department of Cesar, while they were exhuming the body of a person who had been killed by the paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia. It is alleged that they were abducted by members of the same paramilitary group. The remaining case concerned Jose Luis Suarez Eraso, abducted in Medellin by paramilitary agents with the involvement of the military in January 2009. Information from the Government 137. Six communications were received from the Government dated 5 January, 17 February, 20 May, 13 July, 24 and 29 September 2009. The first communication concerns the actions undertaken by the Government to follow-up on the recommendations made by the Working Group after its visit to the country in July 2005, the content of which could not be translated in time for inclusion in this report. The second and third communications provide information on 37 cases, which did not lead to clarification. The fourth and fifth communications include replies to the general allegations sent by the Working Group on 15 May and 22 July 2009, which were not translated in time for inclusion in this report. The last communication provided information on document CONPES 3590 aimed at consolidating the mechanisms of search and identification of disappeared people in Colombia. GE.09-17704 33