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Viewing cable 08BOGOTA3724, EXHUMATION OF SUCRE EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING VICTIMS

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08BOGOTA3724 2008-10-09 20:16 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Bogota
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RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHBO #3724/01 2832016
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 092016Z OCT 08
FM AMEMBASSY BOGOTA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5036
INFO RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 1152
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ OCT LIMA 6632
RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO 7322
RUEHGL/AMCONSUL GUAYAQUIL 4622
RHMFISS/CDR USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
UNCLAS BOGOTA 003724 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PGOV KJUS CO
SUBJECT: EXHUMATION OF SUCRE EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING VICTIMS 
HIGHLIGHTS CONTINUING PROBLEM 
 
REF: A. 07 BOGOTA 7623 
     B. 08 BOGOTA 1443 
     C. 08 BOGOTA 03625 
     D. 08 BOGOTA 03686 
 
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SUMMARY 
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1.  (C) On October 5th, we accompanied UN High Commissioner 
on Human Rights (UNHCHR) Representative Javier Hernandez, 
Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) Human Rights Unit 
director Sandra Castro, and MAPP/OAS regional officials to 
the exhumation and re-burial of 8 of the 11 youths from Sucre 
who were apparently murdered by military personnel in July 
2007.  Representatives of the Lawyers Collective and the 
local chapter of the National Victims' Movement also 
participated.  The Fiscalia expects to soon charge the 
recruiters who lured the youths into false job offers with 
murder, and is also investigating members of the 11th 
Brigade--several of whom are already in jail on narcotics 
charges.  UNHCHR officials told us they have information on 
46 extrajudicial killings in Sucre and Cordoba from March 
2007 to July 2008.  Local victim's representative Ingrid 
Vergara, currently part of the GOC's protection program, said 
the situation has improved in San Onofre.  She also voiced 
satisfaction with her protection scheme. END SUMMARY. 
 
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EXHUMATION AND RETURN TO TOLUVEIJO 
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2.  (C) On October 5th, international observers, including 
UNHCHR, the OAS Mission in Support of the Peace Process 
(MAPP/OAS) regional representatives, and the U.S. Embassy, 
accompanied the families of 8 of the 11 youths from 
Toluviejo, Sucre who were murdered in July 2007.  The youths 
had been recruited by two former paramilitary members to work 
on a farm outside of the town for 700,000 pesos (350 dollars) 
a  month.  The young men, ages 16-22, were then reported days 
later as combatants killed in combat by members of the 11th 
Brigade Gaulas (anti-kidnapping unit) and buried as "John 
Does" in nearby cemeteries in Chinu and Since (Ref A). 
 
3.  (SBU) The bodies were exhumed and identified by family 
members for proper burial.  Fiscalia Human Rights unit 
Director Sandra Castro and Medellin Human Rights Office chief 
prosecutor William Arteago, who is prosecuting the cases, 
attended the re-burial ceremony in Tuloviejo, but neither the 
CTI (Technical Investigative Corps) nor the Fiscalia 
participated in the exhumation, which was performed by an 
international human rights group with Fiscalia authorization. 
 Military personnel attended the re-burial ceremony, at the 
invitation of Sucre Governor Jorge Barraza Farak.  Barraza 
walked with the coffins through town, but left before the 
ceremony. 
 
4.  (C)  Castro told us the Fiscalia will soon charge the 
recruiters (Robinson Eustaquio Barbosa and Jose Dionisio 
Ramos Castillo) for the murders, and will also likely link 
the deaths to members of the 11th Brigade.  The Colombian 
National Police (CNP) arrested Lt. Colonel Alvaro Zambrano 
(Commander of the 11th Brigade Junin Battalion) and Major 
Julio Parga (Commander of the 11th Brigade Gaula 
anti-kidnapping unit) on April 16 for narcotics charges. 
Both remain in jail.  Ramos Castillo is cooperating with 
investigators and is under Fiscalia protection. 
 
5.  (U) After the ceremony, the international observers met 
with the local Human Rights Ombudsman, Oscar Herrera, the 
Personeria of Toluviejo, Nasly Villadiego, and members of the 
Lawyers Collective (Colectivo de Abogados) and the local 
representative of the National Victim's Movement chapter. The 
meeting focused on the lack of psycho-social services 
provided by the GOC to the families of the victims, and the 
slow progress of the investigations.  The groups stressed 
that there were other unmarked graves in the region that 
represented more extrajudicial killings, and urged the 
international community to not just focus on Toluviejo and 
Soacha. 
 
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UNHCHR NUMBERS AND THEORIES 
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6.  (C) UNHCHR Regional representative Miguel Angel Sanchez 
 
said the UN is investigating 22 cases, representing 46 
victims, of alleged extrajudicial killings in Cordoba and 
Sucre from March 2007-July 2008.  Six demobilized 
paramilitary members are among the 46 victims.  29 of them 
were claimed by the military as combatants killed in combat 
the same day they were reported missing.  In 18 of the cases, 
the victims were reportedly told they were being recruited to 
join Aguilas Negras, but instead were killed and claimed as 
enemies killed in combat.  Of the 46 victims, 17 were 
denounced by family members to the GOC.  Sanchez also told us 
the Fiscalia--which sent a special commission to investigate 
alleged extrajudicial killings in the two departments last 
December--considers over 150 deaths in Cordoba and Sucre in 
2007 to be likely extrajudicial killings.  Many of these 
involved collusion between the 11th Brigade and criminal 
groups.  The Gaula attached to the 11th Brigade was 
responsible for more than 50% of the murders. 
 
7.  (C) Sanchez and Hernandez noted the similarities between 
the Toluviejo murders and the recent cases of young men who 
disappeared in Soacha and later turned up as reported combat 
deaths in Norte de Santander (Ref C).  Similar cases have 
also been reported in Tolima and Valle de Cauca departments. 
Hernandez told us he hopes to use the Soacha and Toluviejo 
cases to publicize the extrajudicial killing issue.  He 
acknowledged that while the numbers of reported killings seem 
to have fallen over the last year--likely due to recent MOD 
directives and actions to prevent them-- the GOC needs to do 
more to combat this problem. 
 
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VICTIMS VIEWS ON SAN ONOFRE 
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8.  (SBU) During the visit, we also met with Ingrid Vergara, 
a member of the San Onofre Victims Movement, and discussed 
her security situation.  Vergara had been previously 
threatened by members of criminal groups in San Onofre, and 
currently receives protection from the Ministry of Interior 
and Justice and the CNP as part of the GOC's Protection 
Program.  Vergara said the situation in San Onofre is not as 
tense as it has been in the past, though fear of a return of 
paramilitary violence remains.  She voiced satisfaction with 
the protection the GOC is giving her, and said she feels 
comfortable participating in human rights activities, such as 
the exhumation and reburial ceremony in Toluviejo. 
 
 
BROWNFIELD