Among the most severe attacks against the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in 2016, the following are worthy of note:

Threats and acts of aggression

15 March: a member of the San Jose de Apartadó Peace Community’s Internal Council was retained by National Police agents in Apartadó, who photographed him and attempted to unlawfully register his personal information. The Police ended the encounter by threatening to find him at some other time.[1]
3 July: Threat via trespassing on the lands of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community, in the peace village of Luis Eduardo Guerra, by people from the Mulatos area, in order to carry out State sponsored projects.[2]
17 July: Incident in which a known drug trafficker, Luis Adán Rivera, tried to gain entry to the San José Peace Community’s settlement, and was prevented from doing so by members of the Community’s internal council. The individual was captured on 19 July by officers when he tried to transport drugs in Apartadó.[3]
24 September: Death threat against three members of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community, during a paramilitary incursion in La Hoz. The neo-paramilitaries threatened and told the three farmers that they were looking for several people, including Peace Community members, because they were going to kill them.[4]

Slander and defamations

8 July: Intimidation of a member of the Peace Community’s Internal Council by two soldiers in a public space in the urban area of Apartadó. They stated that the international community was going to stop accompanying the “s.o.b.” community and after that things were going to change.[5]

17 April: at night, two people in a white van stopped outside the San Jose de Apartadó Peace Community’s settlement in La Holandita, and took photographs of the Community’s fence where its members had erased the graffiti made by the AGC the day before.[6]

23 February: an Army patrol retained a member of the Internal Council of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartadó in La Balsa, situated on the road between Apartadó and San Jose de Apartadó.The soldiers said they knew nothing about the Peace Community or the precautionary and provisional measures of protection of the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights covered the Community.[7]
4 March: agents of the National Police retained a member of the Internal Council of the Peace Community, and after several minutes took him to the police command headquarters in Apartadó. He was made to travel with an armed Police officer in the back of the vehicle. At the station, he was photographed and then subjected to insults and verbal and psychological abuse.[8]

[1] Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: Círculos cada vez más amplios de represión ilegal, 16 March 2016
[2] Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: Agresiones, estigmatizaciones y tolerancias: nubarrones persistentes en un frágil discurso de paz, 27 July 2016
[3] Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: Agresiones, estigmatizaciones y tolerancias: nubarrones persistentes en un frágil discurso de paz, 27 July 2016
[4] Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: Campesinos torturados a mano de neoparamilitares, 30 September 2016
[5] Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: Agresiones, estigmatizaciones y tolerancias: nubarrones persistentes en un frágil discurso de paz, 27 July 2016
[6] Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: Se incrementa asedio paramilitar contra nuestra Comunidad de Paz, 3 May 2016
[7] Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: Círculos cada vez más amplios de represión ilegal, 16 March 2016
[8] Ibíd.