[Marxism] Colombia: Urgent Action

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

      Yesterday, July 30, 2007, the Police set up a checkpoint across  
from the entrance to San Josesito, the settlement established by  
members of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado when the  
Police established a Police station within San Jose. And Yair  
Jimenez, the public order chief for Antioquia, told the local news  
media that he was concerned that the government was not doing  
anything to tackle the topic of the legal status of the Peace  
Community, and that the call that he made was to enter the Peace  
Community. This he said was in response to a battle lasting more than  
half an hour between the Police and guerrillas, which took place on  
July 27 at 5:10 p.m. just 5 minutes away from San Josesito on the  
road between Apartado and San Jose. Distorting the truth, Jimenez  
said the battle had taken place just 100 meters out of San Josesito,  
when in fact it had occurred some 400-500 meters away.



            On July 28 at 3 p.m. at the place where Dairo had been  
murdered several days ago, five minutes out of Apartado and just 100  
meters from a Police checkpoint, a man dressed in civilian clothes  
who carried a weapon stopped a public transportation vehicle and  
identified himself as a member of the Aguilas Negras paramilitary  
organization and said they were patrolling in the area and would  
continue to be there. This followed upon an incident of July 22, when  
two young men were stopped as they left San Jose for La Union by two  
men dressed as civilians who asked them for their identification  
cards (cedulas) and noted their personal information in a notebook.  
When the young men asked the two men who had stopped them for  
identification, the men responded by threatening to kill them.



            Please write to the following Colombian officials to urge  
them to remove the Police checkpoint from the entrance to San  
Josesito. The checkpoint places at great risk the lives of the people  
of San Josecito. And tell these officials the stigmatizing of the  
Peace Community must cease, as must the operations of paramilitary  
forces with the support of the Colombian Police and Army. It is  
totally unacceptable that the Government present the Peace  
Community , which has rejected the use of force altogether and is the  
victim of state-sponsored violence, as the cause of conflict and  
murders in the region. Tell the officials that the international  
community is watching carefully and expects the Colombian Government  
to live up to the commitments to protect and advance the interests of  
the Peace Community which the Inter-American Court and Colombia’s  
Constitutional Court have placed upon it

PLEASE WRITE RESPECTFULLY TO THE FOLLOWING :


IN THE US
Your Senators and Representatives see our website  
www.colombiasupport.net

US Embassy :
  Ambassador B@ state.gov

IN COLOMBIA

Liutenant Colonel Marco Tulio Avendano-Lara
Police Comander Uraba
comandeura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Secretario de Gobierno de Antioquia
Jorge Mejia-Martinez jmejiama@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Vice-president Francisco Santos
fsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Vice-Minister of Defense  Sergio Jaramillo-Caro
serjara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Procuraduría General de la Nación
Dr. Edgardo José Maya Villazón
  reygon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; anticorrupcion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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Madison, WI  53701-1505
phone:  (608) 257-8753
fax:  (608) 255-6621
e-mail:  csn@xxxxxxx
http://www.colombiasupport.net








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phone:  (608) 257-8753
fax:  (608) 255-6621
e-mail:  csn@xxxxxxx
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