Some confirmation for those who thought victory in the Cali occupation was
too good to last...
(plus a reminder of the schedule for the Colombian activists UK speaking
tour...)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Higginbottom [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 14 February 2002 10:47
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 3 URGENT ACTIONS: ASSASSINATION OF SOCIAL LEADER IN CALI L2
>
>
> Dear Friend,
>
> With great sadness we have to report the murder of union
> representative
> and community leader JULIO GALEANO, and with it the clear onset of
> paramilitary reprisals on the successful SINTRAEMCALI
> occupation against
> privatisation. To defend all our friends and comrades involved in this
> heroic and historic victory an international response
> protesting JULIO's
> assassination to the Colombian authorities is vital.
>
> Likewise paramilitary violence and state repression are escalating
> against every sector standing in the way of the neoliberal
> programme, as
> evidenced by the two accompanying Urgent Actions concerning
> the Pacific
> Black Communities and the Colombian Communist Party. Please
> act on these
> requests for humanitarian solidarity.
>
>
> I. CONTINUA GENOCIDIO CONTRA LOS LIDERES SOCIALES EN SANTIAGO DE
> CALI / CONTINUING GENOCIDE AGAINST SOCIAL LEADERS IN CALI
> pp 1- 4
>
> II. PROCESO DE COMUNIDADES NEGRAS AMENAZAS EN NAYA Y YURUMANGUI
> / BLACK COMMUNITIES UNDER THREAT OF MASSACRE AS OVER 400
> PARAMILITARIES MOVE ON THE NAYA AND YURUMANGUI RIVERS
> pp 5 - 7
>
> III. THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY SUFFERS INCREASED
> PERSECUTION BY
> COLOMBIAN POLICE
> pp 8 - 10
>
> IV. DAYSCHOOL AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY RALLY
> pp 10 - 11
>
>
> I. CONTINUA GENOCIDIO CONTRA LOS LIDERES SOCIALES EN SANTIAGO DE
> CALI
>
> DENUNCIA PUBLICA
> ----------------
> Las organizaciones abajo firmantes denunciamos ante la comunidad
> nacional e internacional la ejecución extrajudicial del dirigente
> comunal, extrabajador de EMCALI, JULIO GALEANO, a manos del grupo
> paramilitar que opera en la Comuna 20 barrio de Siloe.
>
> Los Hechos:
>
> 1. Siendo las 5:55 a.m. del día lunes 11 de febrero de
> 2002, fue
> asesinado el líder comunal, JULIO GALEANO, salía de su residencia
> ubicada en el barrio Brisas de Mayo Kr. 53 oeste No. 12-19 de
> la comuna
> 20 - Siloe, en compañía de su esposa VIVIANA MARIA VILLAMIL
> con rumbo al
> Centro Administrativo Municipal CAM, Torre Administrativa de EMCALI,
> donde ella labora, fueron abordados por dos hombres, uno de
> ellos quien
> desenfundo un arma y le dijo "quédese quieto", y procedió a
> dispararle
> a la altura del maxilar inferior izquierdo.
>
> 2. Julio Galeano y su esposa se desplazaban en una motocicleta
> Yamaha Chappy, de su propiedad y al recibir el primer impacto callo al
> suelo donde fue rematado con tres tiros más, mientras su esposa salió
> corriendo por el impacto.
>
> 3. Julio Galeano y su esposa delegada Sindical participaron
> activamente en la Asamblea Permanente de SINTRAEMCALI, que
> duro 36 días,
> los cuales, como todos ustedes saben, fueron decisorios para
> frenar la
> liquidación y privatización de la Empresa.
>
> 4. JULIO GALEANO, padre de tres hijos, 16, 13 y 9 años, hizo
> parte del comando de paro por el Salvamento de EMCALI, fue trabajador
> de esta Empresa y delegado de SINTRAEMCALI desde 1993 hasta el día 1
> de septiembre de 1998, cuando miembros de la III Brigada del
> Ejercito,
> realizaron varios allanamientos ilegales en Siloe e incursionaron
> violentamente a su residencia, destruyeron sus pertenencias,
> rompieron
> electrodomésticos e ingresaron tres granadas de fragmentación con el
> fin de realizar un montaje en contra del delegado sindical
> procediendo a
> detenerlo arbitrariamente.
>
> 5. JULIO GALEANO, estuvo privado ilegalmente de su libertad
> durante 32 meses. Al salir en libertad fue amenazado de
> muerte por parte
> del grupo paramilitar que hace presencia en esta comuna, sin embargo,
> continuo con su trabajo comunitario, organizaba reuniones, impulsaba
> proyectos comunitarios con la administración local y municipal.
>
> 6. Igualmente fue reconocido líder comunitario y en varios
> periodos perteneció a la Junta de Acción Comunal del Barrio Brisas de
> Mayo desempeñándose como Presidente, actualmente ocupaba el cargo de
> Fiscal de la Junta de Acción Comunal y de la Asociación de padres de
> familia del Colegio Juan Pablo Segundo, perteneció al Grupo
> Nueva Vida
> y realizaba un importante trabajo con jóvenes drogadictos en alto
> riesgo.
>
> Por los hechos anteriormente expuestos y ante la gravedad de la
> situación que afrontan los lideres comunales, dirigentes y activistas
> sindicales de la ciudad de Santiago de Cali, particularmente los que
> habitan en la comuna 20 - Siloe y el Distrito de Agua Blanca,
> solicitamos:
>
> 1. Exigir al gobierno Colombiano se desarrolle una
> investigación exhaustiva para dar castigo a los responsables del
> asesinato del líder comunitario JULIO GALEANO.
>
> 2. Se prevengan nuevos hechos que atenten contra la
> integridad
> física y psicológica de los lideres, sociales, populares,
> comunitarios,
> sindicales y de derechos humanos en la ciudad de Santiago de Cali.
>
> 3. Se proteja a su esposa e hijos y se les brinde toda la
> asistencia humanitaria necesaria.
>
>
> PUBLIC DENOUNCEMENT
> -------------------
>
> We, the below signed organisations, denounce to the national and
> international community the extra-judicial execution of JULIO
> GALEANO, a
> community leader and former worker at EMCALI, at the hands of the
> paramilitary group that operates in the Siloe area of Comuna 20
> district.
>
> The Facts:
>
> 1. At 5:55 a.m. on Monday 11th February 2002, community leader
> JULIO GALEANO was assassinated as he left his home, located in at No
> 12-19 West 53 Street, in the Brisas de Mayo neighbourhood [barrio] of
> Comuna 20 district. He was accompanying his wife VIVIANA
> MARIA VILLAMIL
> and they were heading for the CAM Tower, the Central Municipal
> Administration building of EMCALI where she works. They were
> tackled by
> two men, one of them drew a firearm, told them to "keep quiet", and
> proceeded to shoot JULIO in the face, at the top of his lower
> left jaw.
>
> 2. JULIO GALEANO and his wife were by then on their
> Yamaha Chappy
> motorcycle. On receiving the first shot JULIO fell to the ground where
> he was finished off by three more shots, while his wife was
> able to keep
> moving.
>
> 3. JULIO GALEANO and his wife, who is a union representative,
> were active participants in SINTRAEMCALI's recent permanent assembly,
> that is occupation, that lasted 36 days. It was this occupation, as is
> well known, that was decisive in stopping the liquidation and
> privatisation of the EMCALI corporation.
>
> 4. JULIO GALEANO, was father of three children aged
> 16, 13 and 9
> years old. He was a member of the "Save EMCALI" strike
> committee, he had
> been a worker at the corporation and a SINTRAEMCALI union
> representative from 1993 until 1 September 1998, when members of the
> Army's Third Brigade carried out several illegal raids in Siloe. They
> broke into his home violently, destroying possessions, breaking
> electrical domestic appliances, and planting three fragmentation
> grenades with the aim of framing him up and proceeded to detain him
> arbitrarily [without just cause].
>
> 5. JULIO GALEANO was illegally deprived of his liberty for 32
> months. On leaving detention he was given a death threat by a
> paramilitary group that was present in his district. He nevertheless
> continued with his community work, pushing forward community projects
> with the local and city administration.
>
> 6. He was a recognised community leader and at
> different times he
> served on the Brisas de Mayo Neighbourhood Community Action Committee,
> including as its President. Most recently he has been the Co-ordinator
> of the Community Action Committee and of the Parents
> Association at Juan
> Pablo Secondary School. JULIO also belonged to the New Life
> Group and he
> carried out important work with young people who were high risk drug
> addicts.
>
> In consequence of these events, and given the seriousness of the
> situation faced by community leaders and trade union activists in the
> city of Santiago de Cali, particularly those living in the
> Siloe area of
> Comuna 20 district and in the Agua Blanca district, we seek
> you support
> in the following manner:
>
> 1. Demand that the Colombian government mounts a thorough
> investigation so that those responsible for the murder of
> community leader JULIO GALEANO be identified and punished.
>
> 2. That new attempts on the physical and psychological well being
> of social, popular, community, trade union and human rights
> leaders in the city of Santiago de Cali be prevented.
>
> 3. That JULIO GALEANO's wife and children are protected and given
> all necessary humanitarian support.
>
> RECOMMENDED ACTION
> ------------------
>
> ENVIAR MENSAJES O CARTAS A / SEND MESSAGES TO:
>
> ANDRÉS PASTRANA ARANGO
> Presidente de la República,
> Presidencia de la República
> Carrera 8 No. 7-26 Palacio de Nariño,
> Santa Fe de Bogotá
> Teléfono. +57.1.5629300 ext. 3550 (571) 284 33 00
> Fax +(57)1 - 286 74 34 - 286, 68 42 -284 21 86
> Mailto: [log in to unmask]
>
> ARMANDO ESTRADA VILLA
> Ministro del Interior
> Carrera 8 # 8-09 - Bogotá
> Fax: +57-1-286.80.25
>
> GUSTAVO BELL
> Ministro de la Defensa,
> Ministerio de Defensa Nacional
> Avenida El Dorado con carrera 52 CAN Santa Fe de Bogotá
> Tel-fax: +57.1.222.1874
> E-mail de la Secretaría General: [log in to unmask]
>
> EDGARDO JOSÉ MAYA VILLAZÓN
> Procuraduría General de la Nación
> Carrera 5 No. 15-80 Santa Fe de Bogotá
> Tel-fax: +57.1.342.9723, +57.1.281.7531
>
> LUIS CAMILO OSORIO
> Fiscal General de la Nación
> Diagonal 22 B No. 52-01 Santa Fe de Bogotá.
> Tel fax: +57.1.570.2022
>
> EDUARDO CIFUENTES
> Defensoría del Pueblo
> Calle 55 No. 10-32 Santa Fe de Bogotá
> Fax: +57.1.346.1225
>
> LUIS ERNESTO GILIBERT
> Director General Policía Nacional
> Santafé de Bogotá
> Fax: +57.1.428.7634 - +57.1.315.9527
>
> FERNANDO TAPIAS STAHELIN
> Comandante de las Fuerzas Militares
> Avenida el Dorado con Carrera 52
> Santa Fe de Bogotá
> Telefax. 57-1-2222935
>
> CAMILO GÓMEZ
> Comisionado para la Paz Fax: +57.1.560.9946
> Oficina en Colombia del Alto Comisionado de la ONU para
> los Derechos Humanos
> Fax: +57.1.313.4050
> Mailto: [log in to unmask]
>
> Signed:
> Asociación Para la Investigación y Acción Social NOMADESC;
> La Unión Sindical Obrera USO; Sindicato de Trabajadores de
> Las Empresas
> Municipales de Cali SINTRAEMCALI; Corporación Servicios Profesionales
> Comunitarios SEMBRAR; Sindicato De Los Trabajadores Universitarios De
> Colombia SINTRAUNICOL; Central Unitaria De Los Trabajadores
> CUT - VALLE
> DEL CAUCA; Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Minería en Colombia
> SINTRAMINERCOL; Movimiento Estudiantil del Valle del Cauca y Nariño;
> Fundación Comité De Solidaridad Con Presos Políticos
> Seccional Valle del
> Cauca; Sintramunicipio Bugalagrande; Sintramunicipio Yumbo;
> Sintramunicipio Dagua; Sintrametal Yumbo; Sutev; Asonal Judicial Valle
> del Cauca; Sintrahospiclínicas; Sinaltrainal Bugalagrande.
>
> CAMPAÑA NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL DE DERECHOS HUMANOS CONTRA LA
> PRIVATIZACIÓN, LA CORRUPCION Y LA PENALIZACIÓN DE LA PROTESTA SOCIAL
>
> NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN AGAINST
> PRIVATISATION,
> CORRUPTION AND THE CRIMINALISATION OF SOCIAL PROTEST
>
> [Also to relevant embassy as indicated below].
>
>
>
> II. BLACK COMMUNITIES UNDER THREAT OF MASSACRE AS OVER 400
> PARAMILITARIES MOVE ON THE NAYA AND YURUMANGUI RIVERS
>
> Canada, 12 February 2002
>
> It is with sad and striking irony that, while millions celebrate Black
> History Month, we have to forward the news of an imminent paramilitary
> incursion into the traditional territories of the Black communities on
> Colombia's Pacific Coast.
>
> In Colombia, all massacres are announced
>
> The inhabitants of the Naya and Yurumangui Rivers have been preparing
> for an imminent massacre since late November, 2001 when right-wing
> paramilitaries announced that they would "celebrate Christmas with a
> massacre" in order to "seize control of the area and cleanse it of
> guerrilla collaborators".
>
> It was thanks to the pressure generated by an international
> campaign of
> letters in protest to the Colombian government that the Christmas
> massacre was prevented.
>
> Despite the threats against them, the communities of the Naya and
> Yurumangui, with great courage and dignity, have made the decision to
> stay and resist and defend their traditional territories no
> matter what
> the consequences.
>
> The Wealth of the Pacific Coast Rainforest
>
> The territories of the Colombian Pacific, which have been inhabited by
> African descendants for some 400 years, are coveted for their immense
> resource wealth and "development" potential, which includes petroleum,
> gold, uranium, precious timber, biodiversity and enormous
> potential for
> hydroelectric dam development. Likewise, the Black
> communities are also
> recognized in their rights to collective entitlement of these very
> lands as well as the right to autonomously develop them according to
> their traditional values of their culture, rights which became
> consecrated under the Black Communities Law (or Law 70) of 1993. Thus,
> the historic and cultural project of the Black communities
> finds itself
> in direct confrontation with the strategic interests of national and
> international investment. This confrontation has meant the
> infliction of
> terrible violence upon the peaceful communities of the Pacific coast
> rainforest. The Black communities peacefully strive to build a society
> which can exist in harmony with the forest that gives them their
> sustenance and have always maintained that this does NOT make them
> guerrilla collaborators.
>
> Over 400 paramilitaries move on the Naya and Yurumangui
>
> Today, February 12, 2002, news was just received of the
> movement of over
> 400 paramilitaries into the Naya and Yurumangui Rivers. It should be
> noted that Colombia is a country known for maintaining vital links
> between the official military and illegal paramilitary death squads. A
> great deal of evidence to this regard has been compiled by credible
> sources such Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and
> the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).
>
> What can be done?
>
> Since all massacres in Colombia are previously announced, the sending
> of letters, emails, faxes and making phone calls has proven to be an
> effective tool for halting these acts of barbarism. At the end of this
> message you will find the relevant addresses.
>
> Below we include a translated version of the communiqué sent
> out by the
> Autonomous Black Movement of Colombia known as the PCN (Proceso de
> Comunidades Negras) sent to the president of Colombia, the High
> Commission for Human Rights of the United Nations and the Colombian
> Human Rights Ombudsman.
>
> *******************************************
> Bogotá, 12 February 2002
>
> URGENT
>
> To: VICEPRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC
> OFFICE FOR THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
> HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN
> Bogotá
>
> Re: The situation in the Naya-Yurumanguí
>
> We have just been informed today of the deployment by land of
> approximately 400 paramilitaries that apparently come from the Darien
> and Calima region (province of Valle del Cauca), who have just moved
> through the settlements known as Los Turbos-San
> Cipriano-Aguaclara. They
> were seen by the inhabitants of that region have given
> testimony of the
> presence of the paramilitaries passing through the region and confirm
> that they have already passed through the Anchicayá River
> hydroelectric
> dam. Also, it has been reported that paramilitaries of the urban area
> of the port city of Buenaventura are concetrating and awating
> orders to
> be sent to the Naya and Yurumangui Rivers. The order they
> have been give
> is to enter with blood and fire to remove the guerrilla.
>
> Likewise, we have been informed from the inhabitants of the region of
> the intensification of paramilitary roads blocks and check points,
> specifically in the villages of Zabaletas, Llano Bajo and San
> Marcos on
> the Anchicaya River. Paramilitaeis currently control all poitns of
> access to those rural areas. Their route appears to be Calima
> - Darién,
> crossing over the New highway, entering the rivers Anchicaya, Raposo,
> Cajambre, Yurumangui and Naya
>
> We write this letter in expectation that you take all
> measures to avoid
> that, just as it is being announced, the Black, indigenous and peasant
> communities that live in this region suffer aggression, massacres and
> displacement.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> BLACK COMMUNITIES PROCESS (PROCESO DE COMUNIDADES NEGRAS -
> PCN) NATIONAL
> COORDINATION TEAM
>
> VERSION ESPANOL
> ===============
>
>
> URGENTE
>
> Señores
> VICEPRESIDENCIA DE LA REPÚBLICA OFICINA DEL ALTO COMISIONADO PARA
> DERECHOS HUMANOS DE NACIONES UNIDAS DEFENSORIA DEL PUEBLO
> Bogotá.
>
> Ref. Situación Naya-Yurumangui.
>
> Hemos sido informados en el día de hoy del desplazamiento por tierra
> de cerca de 400 paramilitares y que al parecer vienen de la zona
> Calima-Darién, atravesaron por el sitio conocido como Los Tubos- San
> Cipriano-Aguaclara. Estos han sido visto por pobladores de esta zona y
> se dice que ya pasaron por la hidroeléctrica del Río Anchicaya..
> Igualmente se dice que los paramilitares de la zona urbana de
> Buenaventura están siendo concentrados para ser enviados a
> los ríos Naya
> y Yurumangui. La orden es entrar a estos ríos a sangre y
> fuego y sacar a
> la guerrilla.
>
> Igualmente se nos informa de la zona que se han intensificado desde el
> viernes ultimo hasta hoy los retenes de los paramilitares en las
> veredas Zabaletas, Llano Bajo, San Marcos sobre el río Anchicaya.
> Los paramilitares controlan en el caso de Buenaventura todos
> los accesos
> a la zona rural. La ruta que están siguiendo es la de Calima - Darién,
> atravesando la carretera Nueva, entrando a Anchicaya, Raposo,
> Cajambre,
> Yurumangui y Naya.
>
> Esperando se tomen las medidas para evitar que tal y como esta
> anunciado, las comunidades negras, indígenas y campesinas
> que viven en
> esta zona sean nuevamente agredidas, masacradas y desplazadas...
>
> De ustedes,
>
> PROCESO DE COMUNIDADES NEGRAS EQUIPO DE COORDINACION NACIONAL
>
> RECOMMENDED ACTION
> ------------------
>
> Address your letters to:
>
> FOR THOSE IN CANADA:
> Write to: Fanny Kertzman Yankelevitch
> Ambassador for Colombia
> 360 Albert Street, Suite 1002
> Ottawa, Ontario K1R 7X7
> Fax: (613) 230-4416
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
> FOR THOSE IN THE UNITED STATES:
> Write to: Luis Alberto Moreno
> Embajador de Colombia
> 2118 Leroy Place, NW,
> Washington, DC 20008
> Phone: (202) 387 8338
> Fax: (202) 232 8643
> [log in to unmask]
>
> FOR THOSE IN THE U.K.
> Mr VICTOR RICARDO,
> Ambassador to the UK,
> Embassy of the Republic of Colombia
> Flat 3A, 3 Hans Crescent, London SW1X 0LN, UK
> Tel: (020) 7589 9177. Fax: (020) 7581 1829.
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> IN COLOMBIA:
> Write to: ANDRÉS PASTRANA ARANGO
> Presidente de la República,
> Carrera 8 n. 7-26 Palacio de Nariño,
> Santa Fe de Bogotá
> Teléfono. +57.1.5629300 ext. 3550 (571 ) 284 33 00
> Fax (571 ) 286 74 34 - 286, 68 42 -284 21 86
> Mailto: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
>
> National Human Rights Ombudsman
> Sr. Eduardo Cifuentes Munoz
> Defensor del Pueblo, Defensoria del Pueblo
> Calle 55, No. 10-32/46 office 301
> Telegram: National Advocate, Bogota, Colombia
> Fax: 011 57 1 640 0491
> Salutation: Dear Mr. Cifuentes Munoz
>
>
> WITH COPIES TO:
>
> Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN)
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Canada Colombia Solidarity Campaign (CCSC)
> [log in to unmask]
> ************************************************
> Canada-Colombia Solidarity Campaign
> 122 St.Patrick Street, Suite 20-113
> Toronto Ontario Canada M5T 2X8
> Tel: Toronto(416) 533-8305
> Ottawa (613) 747-9930
> Fax: (416) 533-6871
> Email:[log in to unmask]
> Web: http://tao.ca/~ccsc
> ************************************************
>
>
>
>
> III. THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY SUFFERS INCREASED
> PERSECUTION BY
> COLOMBIAN POLICE
>
> Urgent Appeal for International Support
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Dear Friend
>
> We have received an urgent request from the Colombian Communist Party
> for the support of the international community concerning the
> increasing
> persecution of their members by state security forces. On the
> night of 4
> February 2002, the homes of 10 of the party's members were raided by
> police who accused them of being guerrilla collaborators and searched
> their properties for Marxist literature.
>
> Such acts of intimidation and repression are all too familiar in
> Colombia, but the fact that state security forces, and not their
> paramilitary henchmen, appear now to be openly carrying out
> persecution
> campaigns takes us back to a period of all too recent Latin American
> history no one ever wanted to see repeated - Cuba, Chile, Argentina,
> Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Peru, Guatemala,
> Nicaragua. Yet the
> nightmare of the post-war US-orchestrated international campaign of
> terror against communists or any other political or ideological
> opponents never went away. For a time it was metamorphised
> into the 'War
> on Drugs'. And now to has come back to haunt us under a new
> banner - the
> fraudulent US/UK 'War on Terrorism'. In Latin America, Cuba remains a
> target, but even higher up the US hit list and sitting pretty are now
> Colombia and Venezuela.
>
> There have been but a flutter of news stories about the
> National Law for
> Defence and Security introduced in Colombia in August 2001, yet its
> implications are vast and extremely sinister. The law, another US
> initiative thought out well before 11 September when the international
> 'War on Terrorism' was still a plot to be unleashed on the
> world, gives
> untold powers to the Colombian security forces. These same security
> forces, as we well know, have an horrific human rights record and work
> almost symbiotically with that dark army of blood-curdling
> assassins we
> know as paramilitaries, responsible for the deaths of thousands of
> innocent civilians each year. The North American government,
> in spite of
> its hypocritical claims to be concerned about human rights
> and in spite
> of the pleas of three senior human rights NGOs, is about to throw even
> more money and military hardware at these same security forces.
>
> So, as well as being lavished with better equipment, more money, more
> advanced training, and a bunch of hired assassins soon to be
> wearing the
> new uniform of political legitimacy, the Colombian state
> security forces
> have also been issued a new style of season ticket to
> persecute and kill
> openly and with impunity. The new Law on Defence and National Security
> enables them to stop, search, harass, detain arbitrarily for long
> periods of time without a lawyer, torture, assassinate and disappear
> anyone they decide to accuse of being a guerrilla collaborator in the
> new US-led crackdown on so-called 'terrorists' and their 'supporters'.
> They can operate independently without the need for civilian judicial
> authorities to be a party. They can file their own reports and offer
> unchallenged explanations for the deaths of civilians.
>
> The Colombian Communist Party, long persecuted for their
> politics along
> with the Patriotic Union (together they have seen more than 5,000 of
> their members assassinated by state security forces and paramilitaries
> since 1985) are experiencing a renewed escalation of this persecution
> against a background of the siege-like conditions of the
> Bush/Blair 'new
> world order'.
>
> Please write to express your concern about this situation to:
>
> Andres Patrana Arango
> Presidente de La Republica
> Carrera 8n. 7-26, Palacio de Narino
> Santafe de Bogota
> Colombia
> Phone: 011-57-1-566-2071
> Fax: 011-57-1-286-7434
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
>
> Gustavo Bell Lemus
> Vice Presidente de la Nacion
> Consejeria Presidencial de Derechos Humanos
> Calle 7 nos. 6-54 Piso 3
> Santafe de Bogota, Colombia
> Ph: 011-57-1-336-0311
> Fax: 011-57-1-342-9355
>
> Eduardo Cifuentes
> Defensor del Pueblo
> Calle 55 No. 10-46
> Santafe de Bogota
> Ph: 011- 57-1-314-7300
> Fax: 011-57-1-314-4000
> General FERNANDO TAPIAS.
> Comandante Fuerzas Militares
> FAX 2229335
>
> General LUIS AUGUSTO GILIBERT
> Director General de la PolicÌa Nacional
> FAX 4287634 o 3159527
>
> Coronel LUIS ALFONSO NOVOA
> Director Oficina Derechos Humanos PolicÌa Nacional
> Fax 3159000
>
> Unidad de Derechos Humanos
> Ministerio Interior
> Fax 5663214
>
> American Officials:
>
> Anne Patterson
> U.S. Ambassador to Colombia
> Ph: 011-57-1-315-2139
> Fax: 011-57-1-315-2038
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Mari Dieterich
> Secretary for Human Rights
> U.S. Ambassador in Colombia
> Ph: 011-57-1-315-0811 ext. 2451
> Fax: 011-57-1-315-2163
> [log in to unmask]
>
> British Officials:
>
> Tony Blair
> Prime Minister
> House of Commons
> Westminster
> London SW1A 0AA
>
> Dr Dennis MacShane
> Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Latin America and Caribbean
> King Charles Street
> London SW1A 2AH
>
> Jack Straw
> Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
> Foreign and Commonweath Office
> Whitehall
> London SW1A 2AH
>
> David Blunkett
> Home Secretary
> House of Commons
> Westminster
> London SW1A 2AH
>
> COPIES OF YOUR MESSAGE TO:
> COLOMBIA PEACE ASSOCIATION
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>
> IV. DAYSCHOOL AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY RALLY
>
> Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1
> Saturday 23 February 2002
>
> Dayschool: Plan Colombia: Clearing the way for the Multinationals
> 10am to 5pm
>
> With guest speakers from Sintraemcali, USO - the Colombian oil workers
> union and Sinaltrainal - the Colombian food workers union currently
> taking Coca Cola to court for complicity in the assassination of trade
> union leaders. Workshops on Plan Colombia and the
> environment, the Latin
> American context, and neoliberalism and the role of the
> multinationals.
>
> daytime tickets- £6 waged/£3 unwaged. Places limited, book
> in advance.
>
>
> Solidarity Rally VICTORY TO SINTRAEMCALI! 6pm until 8pm
>
> Following a 36 day occupation which commenced on Christmas Day, the
> public sector union Sintraemcali successfully prevented the
> privatisation of the public services of Cali, Colombia's second city.
> This victory rally will pay tribute to the 1535 trade unionists
> assassinated in Colombia over the past 10 years and the continuing
> struggle of the Colombian people against the imposition of neo-
> liberalism.
>
> Speakers:
> Luis Hernández (President Sintraemcali)
> Berenice Celeyta (Colombian Human Rights Defender)
> Hector Vaca (USO Oilworkers union)
> Carlos Alberto Olaya (Sinaltrainal food workers union)
> Jeremy Corbyn MP
> and UNISON, War on Want, Colombia Solidarity Campaign,
> Haldane Society and others
>
> To be followed at 8pm by FIESTA
> Live Salsa with Latino Na'Ma
> musical special guests, DJs & Colombian food & drink
>
> Evening tickets- £6 waged/£4 unwaged. Book in advance to
> guarantee entry
>
> Combined ticket- day school, solidarity rally and fiesta
> £10 waged/£5 unwaged
>
> Join the Colombia Solidarity Campaign and attend the AGM on
> Sunday 24 February, Conway Hall 10am to 4pm
>
> Workshops on British multinationals, building international solidarity
> etc
>
> Combined weekend ticket £15 waged, £5 unwaged existing members;
> or £25 and £10 new members
>
> Creche facilities will be available during the daytime sessions, but
> please notify us of needs in advance, latest Thursday 21st Feb.
>
> To book tickets, to receive more information about Colombia,
> or to join
> the Colombia Solidarity Campaign, contact us at PO Box 8446,
> London N17
> 6NZ. Tel 07950 923448, email [log in to unmask]
>
> --
> Andy Higginbottom
> Co-ordinator Colombia Solidarity Campaign
>
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