E/CN.4/1991/56 page 82 The information received concerns the following cases, in particular: 1. Father Bernardo Marin Gomez, 41 years of age, priest of the El Carmen de Chucuri parish, Santander Department, who received a death threat in September 1988 from the Reconstrugcion Patria Colombia paramilitary group, which accused him of links with guerrilla organizations. Father Marin Gomez lodged a complaint against the El Carmen court and also indicated that local military authorities had accused him of co-operating with guerrilla groups. 2. Father Jorge Eduardo Serrano Ordonez, a Jesuit priest of the San Pio X parish in the city of Cucuta, Norte de Santander, who was compelled to leave Colombia after receiving death threats on 20 October 1988, from a paramilitary group called Muerte a Revolucionarios. Apparently, the Jesuits of San Pio X had had problems with the authorities of the General Maza Batallion on account of their assistance programmes for parishioners with financial difficulties, and had on several occasions been questioned by members of the B-2 Division of Army Intelligence. ( Information was also received about members of religious communities who had been assassinated by paramilitary groups after receiving threats. The victims were, in particular: 1. Father Jaime Restrepo Lopez, 44 years of age, priest of San Jose del Nus, Antioquia, who was murdered on 17 January 1988 as he was preparing to celebrate mass. 2. Father Sergio Restrepo, a Jesuit priest of Tierralta, Cordoba, who was murdered on 1 June 1989 as he was chatting with a group of people close to his church. Father Restrepo had been working for several years in the Zenu Indian community to assist in preserving its culture. 3. Sister Teresa de Jesus Ramirez Vanegas, 42 years of age, a nun of the School Sisters of Notre Dame Congregation and a member of the Antioquia Association of Schoolteachers was, murdered on 28 February 1989 as she was teaching a group of children in the village school of Cristales, San Roque municipality, Antioquia. Sister Ramirez had participated in the peasant marches organized in 1988, in the north-east of Colombia, to protest against poverty and violence in the region. Together with other members of her community, she had denounced cases in which peasants had been tortured by the region's security forces." 53. On 13 December 1990, the Permanent Mission of Colombia sent its observations on this information to the Special Rapporteur: "I have the honour (...) to refer to the murders of the following members of religious communities, Jaime Restrepo Lopez, Sergio Restrepo and Sister Teresa de Jesus Ramirez, and to the threats made against another member of a religious community, Bernardo Marin Gomez. ... San Jose with the case No. Inquiries into the murder of Father Restrepo Lopez in the town of del Nus, Antioquia, are at the preliminary investigation stage Office of the Attorney Delegate for the Defence of Human Rights, 3094. This department of the Department of Public Prosecutions