CCPR/C/60/D/612/1995 page 10 conducted by military personnel attached to Military Court No. 15 to determine the whereabouts of Mr. José Eduardo Mattos, who had been abducted by an insurgent group. That, while in detention in the military barracks and in the presence of military personnel, the Villafañe Chaparro brothers were interrogated and tortured by Eduardo Enrique Mattos, a civilian and brother of the abducted person. Eduardo Enrique Mattos threatened the Villafañe brothers that he would kill indigenous people if they did not reveal his brother's whereabouts and said, “to prove it, they were already holding three of them” (sheet 31). That the military operations which led to the detention of indigenous leaders Luis Napoleón Torres Crespo, Angel María Torres Arroyo and Antonio Hugues Chaparro Torres, on the one hand, and the Villafañe Chaparros brothers and Manuel de la Rosa Pertuz, according to the evidence gathered by the Human Rights Division, were coordinated from Valledupar and almost certainly from No. 2 Artillery Battalion “La Popa” (sheet 19). 7.3 In the above-mentioned decision of 1992, the Human Rights Division considered, in the following terms, that the two officers' participation in the events had been established: “Luis Fernando Duque Izquierdo and Pedro Antonio Fernández Ocampo took part in both the physical and psychological torture inflicted on José Vicente and Amado Villafañe Chaparro, members of the Arhuaco indigenous community, and on a civilian, Manuel de la Rosa Pertuz Pertuz, and also the abduction and subsequent killing of Angel María Torres, Luis Napoleón Torres and Antonio Hugues Chaparro” (sheet 30). On the basis of the evidence gathered by the Human Rights Division, counsel rejects the Colombian Government's argument justifying the delays and standstill in the investigations. 7.4 Counsel submits that the disciplinary procedure which led to the ordering of the two sanctions was not judicial, but administrative in nature - a “disciplinary investigation”, which is aimed at “preserving the orderly conduct of the public service and protecting the principle of legality infringed by State agents who commit minor administrative offences”. By virtue of his disciplinary powers, the Attorney-General of the Nation may, once the disciplinary procedure has been completed, order administrative sanctions if necessary. Private individuals cannot be parties to a disciplinary investigation nor can they institute criminal indemnity proceedings. Neither can persons injured as a result of an administrative offence use the disciplinary procedure to obtain appropriate compensation for the injury suffered. The purpose of disciplinary proceedings is not to provide compensation for the injury caused by the behaviour of the State agent or to restore the infringed right. In this connection, counsel refers to the previous decisions by the Committee. 1 7.5 Counsel reiterates that domestic remedies were exhausted when the relevant criminal complaint was lodged with the competent ordinary court and