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["Christopher Black" <bar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: COMUNIQUE OF THE FARC-EP Mar.09.03


> COMUNIQUE OF THE FARC-EP
>
> The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- People's Army, FARC-EP,
> inform:
>
> 1. That the Secretariat of the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP, after
> making a patient, rigorous and serious investigation within all its
> political-military structures at the level of the general staffs of
blocks,
> fronts, columns, companies, guerrilla units, special forces and urban
> structures, has concluded: that the units of its organization have no
> responsibility for the events that happened at the the El Nogal Club of
> Bogota on February 7 this year.
>
> 2. Our revolutionary perception allows us to state that the authors of the
> events at El Nogal are the same ones responsible for the "necklace bomb";
> the same ones who wiped out the lives of the magistrates of the Supreme
> Court of Justice in 1985; the ones who sacrificed Doctor Alvaro Gomez
> Hurtado without being concerned that he belonged to their own class and
was
> a faithful representative of their interests; who killed Luis Carlos Galan
> Sarmiento supposing that he, in form not content, represented a new
option;
> the ones who, like the merchants of death, put together a chain of pain
and
> frustration, with the assassinations of presidential candidates Jaime
Pardo
> Leal, Carlos Pizarro Leongomez and Bernardo Jaramillo as links; the same
> ones who used military bullets to exterminate the Patriotic Union and
> outstanding leaders of the Communist Party, as well as hundreds of labour
> union, campesino and indigenous leaders, intellectuals, journalists,
> students, comedians and lawyers.
>
> 3. With the El Nogal event, state terrorism was just aiming to unleash an
> anti-guerrilla hysteria in the interior of the country that would
facilitate
> approval of the Anti-terrorist Statute by Congress and, in the
international
> sphere, clean up the image of the paramilitary Government of Uribe Velez,
> reap solidarity for it, and commit some countries to the crusade against
the
> FARC under the pretext that they are a terrorist organization.
Fortunately,
> some governments have not fallen into this trap and are protecting healthy
> and supportive hope for the Colombian people, to be able to contribute,
> sooner rather than later, to the negotiated political solution of the
social
> and armed conflict that has afflicted us for decades.  Neither the
> resolutions of the UN, the Non-aligned Countries, nor the OAS directly
label
> the FARC-EP as a terrorist organization.
>
> 4. The haste with which the representatives of the Colombian State and
> government, as demanded by the United States State Department, went ahead
to
> label the FARC as the authors of what happened at El Nogal, is very
> suspicious.  They even linked it to the Basque ETA and the Irish IRA,
> creating with this a malicious and diversionary smoke screen in order to
> protect those really responsible.
>
> 5. We confirm one of the conclusions of the Eight National Conference of
the
> Guerrilla Movement held in 1993: "We want to manifest clearly our
> condemnation of terrorism, independent of its origin. Violent actions
having
> the objective of intimidating the civilian population, or supplanting with
> individual actions that which the people needs to develop, can only
achieve
> confusion and popular repudiation.  Our policy is just because we are the
> interpreters of a country intimidated by the terrorism of a state that has
> been attacking the population for 45 years."
>
> Secretariat of the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP
> Mountains of Colombia, March 9, 2003.
>
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