[www-editoriales] Re: [www-features] Proposal: Colombian Army Kills Labor Leaders

[garcondumonde]

> I couldn't find an image for this.

does anyone have any links for this? eg for the Inter-American Human
Rights Commission, the ADUC--Asociación Nacional de Usuarios
Campesinos/National Peasants Association etc...

also, any links to indymedia articles, eg colombia?

i'd suggest that any language is good (spanish or english or whatever
else), maybe also having a spanish version (or has one been prepared or is
being prepared already??)

lots of questions - but matt, dead impressed at the articles you have been
providing and the breadth of coverage. keep it up!!

love & solidarity,

--gdm

nb. also cc'd to www-editoriales as highly relevant to them also - and
sorry i don't have enough spanish.

>
> <a href="http://colombia.indymedia.org/">COLOMBIA</a>: REPRESSION
>
> Colombian Army Kills Labor Leaders
>
> <p>Héctor Alirio Martínez, Leonel Goyeneche and Jorge Prieto were killed
> the morning of August 6 by the Colombian Army. All three men were under
> the protective measures scheme of  the Inter-American Human Rights
> Commission.
> <p>Alirio Martínez was  president of the National Peasants Association
> ADUC--Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos--Leonel Goyeneche was a
> member of the executive Committee of United Confederation of Colombian
> Workers--CUT Arauca--and Jorge Prieto belonged  to the Executive Committee
> of the National Association of Hospital Workers--ANTHOC--and the CUT. The
> three leaders were assassinated in an operation carried  out  by the
> Revéis Pizarro Battalion of the Colombian Army in the  hamlet of Caño
> Seco, in Saravena municipality.
> <p>Samuel Morales, Presidente of the CUT in Arauca, and Raquel Castro, a
> member of the Arauca Teachers Association were both detained in the same
> operation.
> <p>These leaders have been spokesmen for the araucana community in the
> numerous mobilisations, marches, civil stoppages that have taken place in
> the face of  military and paramilitary action against the population. At
> the same time they have led the continual and effective protests against
> the violation of human rights that took place in the bombing of the
> village of Santo Domingo in 1998.
> <p>The initial versions by the Reveiz Pizarro Mechanized Group reported
> that the operation had "put down" three people  and captured three others.
> Later, a few hours afterwards, the National  Army claimed that the three
> leaders had attacked a military unit that was trying  to rescue a kidnap
> victim and so they gave a military response, and the military claimed to
> have seized arms and munitions. They also signaled that they had started
> an investigation of the murder.
>
>
>                             -Matt
>
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