metalero
17th December 2006, 15:06
Full story from the local newspaper (in spanish) (http://www.elheraldo.com.co/anteriores/06-12-16/judiciales/noti2.htm)
Once again, as usually happens in the Colombian "democracy", especially under paramilitary Alvaro Uribe, another paramilitary group calling themselves "Black Eagles" released some pamphlets found at the Humanities faculty library, at the University of Atlantico (Public university), in the northern city of Barranquilla. It contains a list of 51 University labor union activists, proffesors and activist students, as well as human rights lawyers and Union leaders of the local section of CUT (workers federation), who are signaled of "inflitrating the university":
"Merry christmas and happy funerals to Guerrilla members in the University of Atlantico and social organizations from these barrios: Don Bosco IV, La Cangrejera, La Concepcion, El Bosque, La Cordialidad, Los Olivos y Las Nieves, as well as Guerrilla lawyers and Labor activists of Barranquilla and Soledad"
That is how the pamphlets begins, which also "suggests" them to "leave the city in one week or else be treated as military targets"
It is pertinent to say that all these mentioned neighborhoods are poor working class, and some are shanty towns where displaced people have settled and have begun reorganizing their community issues.
From 1997 to 2005 similar situations ocurred, with list of names released by death squads helped by state agents carrying intelligence inside the legal Students organizations (Communist Youth-JUCO (http://www.pacocol.org/es/Juco/index.htm), University Students Federation-FEU (http://www.feucolombia.com/), Colombian Asociation of University Students-ACEU (http://www.aceucolombia.org/)) and the workers and teachers Unions from the University. What followed is well known by the University Community (http://news.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR230702000?open&of=ENG-2AM), with more than 17 murders, including Student leaders, Proffesors and workers (http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/colombia/doc/Univatlanmar01.html), as well as many exiled and displaced people, who had to transfer to another Universities or look for jobs in another cities.
Human Rights lawyer Jose Humbeto Torres denounced the pamphlet to the local media and to United Nations Office in Bogota, who organized an urgent meeting for this week in Barranquilla.
Once again, as usually happens in the Colombian "democracy", especially under paramilitary Alvaro Uribe, another paramilitary group calling themselves "Black Eagles" released some pamphlets found at the Humanities faculty library, at the University of Atlantico (Public university), in the northern city of Barranquilla. It contains a list of 51 University labor union activists, proffesors and activist students, as well as human rights lawyers and Union leaders of the local section of CUT (workers federation), who are signaled of "inflitrating the university":
"Merry christmas and happy funerals to Guerrilla members in the University of Atlantico and social organizations from these barrios: Don Bosco IV, La Cangrejera, La Concepcion, El Bosque, La Cordialidad, Los Olivos y Las Nieves, as well as Guerrilla lawyers and Labor activists of Barranquilla and Soledad"
That is how the pamphlets begins, which also "suggests" them to "leave the city in one week or else be treated as military targets"
It is pertinent to say that all these mentioned neighborhoods are poor working class, and some are shanty towns where displaced people have settled and have begun reorganizing their community issues.
From 1997 to 2005 similar situations ocurred, with list of names released by death squads helped by state agents carrying intelligence inside the legal Students organizations (Communist Youth-JUCO (http://www.pacocol.org/es/Juco/index.htm), University Students Federation-FEU (http://www.feucolombia.com/), Colombian Asociation of University Students-ACEU (http://www.aceucolombia.org/)) and the workers and teachers Unions from the University. What followed is well known by the University Community (http://news.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR230702000?open&of=ENG-2AM), with more than 17 murders, including Student leaders, Proffesors and workers (http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/colombia/doc/Univatlanmar01.html), as well as many exiled and displaced people, who had to transfer to another Universities or look for jobs in another cities.
Human Rights lawyer Jose Humbeto Torres denounced the pamphlet to the local media and to United Nations Office in Bogota, who organized an urgent meeting for this week in Barranquilla.