Patriotic Union In December 1993 the Renacer Foundation and the Colombian Commission of Lawyers presented an official petition before the Interamerican Human Rights Commission, asking that the Colombian Government should respond to charges concerning 1,554 Patriotic Union members victims of homicide, forced disappearance, attacks and threats, actions described as "Genocide". The petitioners also requested legal injunctions for the protection of party leaders. In 1996, the Commission made itself available to the parties for the search of an amicable solution, approved the admissibility of the solution but not the characterisation of genocide. In the process, the Colombian government created a program for protecting members of the Patriotic Union and the Colombian Communist Party and carried out the compilation of human rights violations against sympathisers and members. In order to impulse the investigation, the Office of the Attorney General conformed several sub-units and a Special Commission. The Office of the Procurator, in turn, presented a report upon the state of the investigations in the year 2000. In March of that same year an agreement was subscribed within the framework of the search for an amicable solution. Afterwards a working group was created to seek the clarification of facts, integral reparations (patrimonial, psychological, social, social, symbolic, political reparations and the recovery of historical memory) and the achievement of the rights to thruth and justice, and to the prevention of human rights abuses against surviving members of the Patriotic Union.