Derechos Humanos: "El paramilitarismo sigue en acción" Human Rights: "The paramilitaries still in action"

I do not have killed anyone, but always speak evil of the paramilitaries. Leaders are giving them a bad example for my children. Lie My children already, "he told IPS a man of 45 years in the demonstration on 6 of this month in tribute to the victims of these gangs identified ultra-operate with security forces. "I am a capitalist. I love capitalism. I'ma citizen independent. But I can not. Journalists You never say what I am seeing. Touched So I come here to see. Look at this. Look at this sea of victims," he said, opening his arms a few metres from the Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota, where some 300,000 protesters flowed estimates of organizers. " For the paramilitaries, partially demobilized and some of its leaders brought to trial after pacts with the government, "giving them five years' jail for 500 dead and then going to go out and enjoy their money," claimed, referring to the fact that most barons are drug traffickers. These forces, created in 1982 to fight the leftist guerrillas, concentrated their attacks on civilians whom they consider supporting the insurgency. Mataban including children, as being "a threat, which would become guerrillas in the future," as stated on January 30 former paramilitary Jorge Luis Salgado, on the killing of three children and eight adults on February 21, 2005 at the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, the northwest Colombia. On Wednesday, the Attorney General's Office issued warrant for the arrest of 15 junior officers in this case, in which the troops served alongside men from "Don Berna" capo today demobilized and prisoner, and then ceasefire. The president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe rightist, drew on those days for that community, which declared itself neutral face of decades of war, it would be "collaborator" of the peasant guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), at that the agent considers "terrorist". "They are with Colombia, or you are with the terrorists", a phrase recent Uribe exposed on billboards in Bogota and other cities, defined opinion about government neutrality in the internal armed conflict in that country. " The joint action of paramilitary security forces and other authorities of the country have been established in 10 rulings of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States, which have resulted in convictions against the Colombian state. For the government, this is "isolated cases", and rejects the existence of state crimes. recognize killings in its current confessions to the prosecution, former paramilitaries often justify accusing their victims of guerrillas. When recognize killings in its current confessions to the prosecution, former paramilitaries often justify accusing their victims of warfare. The 6 this month were conducted vigils, rallies and marches in 78 cities around the world and in 24 of Colombia in which the victims were reminded of paramilitarism, agents of the State and parapolíticos, named for the voters who dominate through extreme violence. The demonstrations also called for an agreement-government guerrillas who exchanged a uniformed abducted by insurgents to release prisoners and civilian hostages held by the FARC, including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. That any agreement must also include an end to kidnapping for extortion practiced by the insurgency in order to raise money. The day of mobilization was quoted by the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (Movice), composed of hundreds of associations, and she joined trade unions and other social movements. Now, the convenors are being attacked throughout the Andean country because the march, as reiterated since 10 February, the main presidential adviser, Jose Obdulio Gaviria, it would have been "called by the FARC." Accusations Gaviria were endorsed by former paramilitary leaders now in prison, and then circulated the declaration of "military target" who participate in the day, "enemy of the homeland." They have since been killed four promoters of the march and a leader was the target of an attack. They have since been killed four promoters of the march and a leader was the target of an attack. In addition, more than 50 individuals and organisations have been listed with texts threatening his own name after the demonstration, signed by "Black Eagles", which announced that the group "will be ruthless with the convenors of the mobilization of the day 6. In addition, more than 50 individuals and organisations have been listed with texts threatening his own name after the demonstration, signed by "Black Eagles", which announced that the group "will be ruthless with the convenors of the mobilization of the day 6. The threats mentioned that their recipients "participated in the march against us," and that all would be "major contributors to the FARC." "If your motto was land, dignity and peace, this time will be terror, murder and hell," warns the threat to those displaced from their homes which organized a two-day hike to Bogota, to lead the march of 6. " That "backlash due to massive repudiation citizen who received the March 6," says Movice a right to petition sent to President Uribe on the premise that "this situation demonstrating responsibility of the government." The Movice believes that the statements by the adviser Gaviria, who has focused his attacks on the person of Ivan Cepeda, spokesman of the movement, "generated an atmosphere conducive to violence," announced that "instauraremos legal action against him", and asks Uribe "who dismiss." "Incitement to violence is a serious crime," he says. " For the government, the paramilitaries do not exist, because officially decreed an end after their demobilization in 2006 who was, however, partially. remaining structures or reappeared, the government called the "criminal gangs". According to a source from an international agency who asked not be identified, late last year the demobilized were being called to take up arms again in Uraba and Chocó, in the northwest of the country and in the department of Cesar, bordering Venezuela, in the northeast, as well as in many other regions. " " The release observed in the field by that body coincides with the message reiterated in all threats, uttered this week also against diplomatic missions in Bogota on "total arming of paramilitary forces." This rearmament is assumed as a fact by 22 entities American human rights advocates and think tanks specializing in foreign policy in this country, in a letter sent on Wednesday to the Colombian president. "This string of threats and attacks directly questioned the effectiveness of the paramilitary demobilization process," they wrote, among others, Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, the American chapter of Amnesty International, Refugees International, Washington Office on Latin America and the Robert F. " President Uribe must take steps to ensure that members of his government will not engage in "Incendiary comments," says the letter. Remember, moreover, that are in force in Colombia two presidential directives, in 1999 and 2001, issued by the former agent, Andres Pastrana (1998-2002), who ordered the officials "refrain from questioning the legitimacy of human rights defenders , "making statements that discredit, harass or inciting harassment" or "issue public statements and private stigmatizing the work of human rights organizations. In another letter, sent this Friday according to Uribe met IPS, about twenty members of the European Parliament expressed that "this situation comes to corroborate reports that the paramilitaries is not a phenomenon in Colombia surpassed therefore maintains its ability criminal contempt nationally. " The MEPs exhortarán Uribe "to rule on these facts and give a clear support for the work of human rights defenders", ahead from Brussels to this humanitarian agency source. The MEPs exhortarán Uribe "to rule on these facts and give a clear support for the work of human rights defenders", from Brussels ahead to this humanitarian agency source.