Bellacruz Ranch On 14 February 1996, a group of forty members of self-defence organizations forcibly evicted 170 peasant families who had lived for several years in an area of 2,000 hectares belonging to the Bellacruz ranch, one of the largest cattle-raising ranches in the south of the Department of Cesar. Three peasant leaders, Eder Narvaéz, Eliseo Narvaéz and Ciro Bottello were killed. The Office of the Prosecutor General issued an arrest warrant without bail against Carlos Arturo Marulanda, a former minister and ex-ambassador, his brother Francisco Alberto, now in prison in Barranquilla, and the ranch's administrator, Edgar Rodríguez-Rodríguez, responsible for the suspected crimes of engaging in paramilitary activities, homicide and terrorism. The Attorney General's Office for Military Forces Affairs is conducting a process, currently at the preliminary inquiries stage, to investigate allegations of collaboration of members of the Army with self-defence groups who harassed the community. Labor Union Leader Jorge Luis Ortega García On 20 October 1998, the vice-president of the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Colombia (Colombian Worker's Central Labor Union, CUT), Jorge Luis Ortega-García, was murdered as he returned to his home in Santafé de Bogotá D.C. The investigation into this homicide is being carried out by the Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Prosecutor Attorney General. Two individuals were linked to it in absentia for the crime of homicide for terrorist objectives. Another individual, Manuel Antonio Díaz-Bustos, was also linked to the investigation. He was killed on 5 August 1998 at La Modelo National Prison. In connection with the death of the witness in prison, the Attorney General's Office is conducting and investigation of the prosecutor for negligence, and also of the wardens who guarded him. North American pro-indigenous activists On 25 February 1999, in the municipality of Saravena in the Colombian Department of Arauca, North American pro-indigenous activists Ingrid Wasshinawato, K. Terence Freitas and Gay Lahence Larry were killed while accompanying the U'wa indigenous community. Responsibility for this triple homicide was publicly accepted by the FARC guerrilla group. The Office of the Prosecutor General ordered that an indictment be issued in this case for Gustavo Bocota-Aguablanca, alias "Tibisu" and Germán Briceño-Suárez, alias "Grannobles", Commander of the FARC's Eastern Block, for the crimes of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated homicide, aggravated robbery and rebellion. Guerrilla members "Rogelio" and "Robledo" were killed in military operations carried out by the Army. They were involved in the kidnapping of the pro-indigenous activists, according to Military Intelligence. La Ceja massacre On 27 September 1998, approximately seven individuals were murdered in the Palenque neighbourhood of the town of La Ceja in the Department of Antioquia, apparently by a private or vigilante justice group called "Social Cleansing". The Prosecutor General's Office laid an indictment against nine defendants, and the trial proceeds. In another process regarding the same events, an additional eleven individuals were linked to it by the Prosecutor General's Office for the crimes of homicide and formation of paramilitary groups. For its part, the Office of the Attorney General, through a decision issued on 5 October 1998, ordered the initiation of a disciplinary investigation of nine members of the National Army, seventeen members of the Police, the Chairman of the Rionegro Municipal Council and a former Mayor of the Municipality of Guarne.