File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0112, message 126


Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 21:11:07 +0200
Subject: AUT: Re:  VERY URGENT. START MASACRES IN COLOMBIA
From: secr <info-AT-unitedpeoples.net>


Sorry, I just tried to be helpful.
I still believe the villagers would be better off if they were able to
defend themselves.
But the solution apparently is 'more pressure'.
Have you any thoughts about how to accomplice this ?
secr


On 14/12/01 20:38, "michael pugliese" <debsian-AT-pacbell.net> wrote:

> 
>  If the situation in Columbia weren't so tragic I'd be laughing
> even more over Mobilize Globally spammatron comment below.
>   FARC, ELN on the left and AUC far right paramilitaries, all
> derive substantial (in the tens of millions of $$$) proceeds
> from skimming off the narcotics trade. If you think only mainstream
> mass media and US State Dept. and Pentagon and CIA say this,
> lookl at a special issue on Columbia from the leftist NACLA magazine
> on Central and South America or the website of the left-liberal
> Center for International Policy or the project of two left think
> tanks, the Instite for Policy Studies and the Inter-Hemispheric
> Policy Center called Foreign Policy In Focus, which has its own
> website.
>  FARC has enough weapons and the Columbia armed forces last
> yr. got 1.6 Billion $ from Uncle Sam. What is needed is more
> pressure to resume peace negotiations. Classic stalemate just
> like Guatemala was by the early 90's between their guerilla front
> and the government.
> Michael Pugliese
>   
>> --- Original Message ---
>> From: secr <info-AT-unitedpeoples.net>
>> To: afriqueglobalization-AT-yahoogroups.com, aut-op-sy
>> <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>,
> haltWAR-AT-yahoogroups.com, nowarbuttheclasswar-AT-yahoogroups.com,
> "mobilize-globally-AT-yahoogroups.com" <mobilize-globally-AT-yahoogroups.com>
>> Date: 12/13/01 5:26:28 AM
>> 
> 
>> The only possibility seems to be armament of the people, first
> for
>> self-defense and from there on to the revolution.
>> 
>> In practice it ought to be a task for the liberation movement,
> FARC.
>> Why is it not more active in this respect ?
>> 
>> If it is a question of money for purchase of arms, all Colombia-groups
> in
>> common could arrange a worldwide collection of money for FARC
> for this
>> particular purpose.
>> 
>> secr-AT-unitedpeoples.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/12/01 23:37, "Cercle social" <cerclesocial-AT-altern.org>
> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: <trasgu-AT-chello.nl>
>>> To: <a-infos-en-AT-ainfos.ca>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:15 PM
>>> Subject: (en) VERY URGENT. START MASACRES IN COLOMBIA
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________________
>>>     A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
>>>           http://www.ainfos.ca/
>>> ________________________________________________
>>> 
>>> Hi everyone, 
>>> Hi everyone, 
>>> A new operative of paramilitars has started in the Naya River,
>>> in the Pacific Coast of Colombia, where black communities
>>> are settled.  Last night the first masacre took place. They
>>> haven't account the amount of murdered people yet.
>>> Many of you have met the some delegates from the PCN,
>>> who came from that river and Yurumangui River, during their
>>> tour in Europe.
>>> In April this year, the paramilitars came to the Naya River
> and
>>> killed about 300 people. A couple of weeks later, during the
>>> Donnors Table in Brussels (European Union gave about 300
>>> milloens euros to the Colombian Goverment to implement the
>>> "social part" of the Plan Colombia), the paramilitars went
> to
>>> the next river, Yurumangi river, and killed 25 persons. These
>>> masacres were announced before by the navy army. The
>>> people went to all the institutions in Colombia trying to
>>> prevent the masacre. There was a question from a diputate
> of
>>> the European Parlament to the European Comission about
>>> this case. A letter signed by many members of the European
>>> Parlament and others organizations were sent to the
>>> Colombian Goverment and some others Colombian
>>> institutions. Nothing worked, and the masacre took place
>>> anyway, with total impunity of the killers. Even when the
>>> killers were surrounded by the guerrilla, they were evacuated
>>> very fast by helicopters from the army.
>>> 
>>> Now the story is repeated. A few days ago the communities
>>> were threatened with the entrance of the paramilitars. The
>>> social movements got information about the coming masacre.
>>> They went to all the institutions asking for protection. But
>>> nothing was done by the colombian goverment.
>>> 
>>> Last night the masacre started, but it is only the begginning.
> It
>>> is clear that they will continue all along the river and then
> the
>>> next river, Yurumangi. Hundred of people will be killed, and
> it
>>> seems that the only thing we can do is waiting for the list
> of
>>> deaths, as they were only numbers and information and not
>>> humans beings. Yes, we can send letters, we must do it
>>> anyway, thousands of letters. But we have to do something
>>> else. I don't know what, maybe action against the colombian
>>> consulate, maybe calls and faxes to our own shit goverments
>>> to ask them take the responsability and send the typical
>>> letter...I  know for a couple of things that the actions against
>>> the consulate have some effect in Colombia, even if they are
>>> small. That was clear in a couple of cases.
>>> 
>>> The other thing it could be the almost impossible task of
> get
>>> "an important person" going there as a small wall of
>>> protection. Maybe the crazy idea of trying to get a quick
>>> intenational peace brigade to go there with an "important
>>> people". 
>>> 
>>> In a couple of hours I will have more information, I will
> know
>>> how many people were killed. A permision to spread the
>>> "oficial" letter of the organizations will be given. And this
> night
>>> more people will be killed in front of our noses.
>>> 
>>> And then some one will speak about the problems with the
>>> drugs and the guerrilla in Colombia, and will tell me about
>>> how much violent the colombian are. And they will not look
>>> about the privatization of the electricity in the department
> from
>>> Union Fenosa (Spanish Transnational) and its responsability
>>> on the murder of members of the trade unions; they will not
>>> look that the reason of the masacres are displacing the
>>> population, because they have colective rights on the land.
>>> Land where there is petrol, gold, genetic resources...They
> will
>>> not understand that this war in Colombia is only part of a
>>> incredible maquiavelic plan to destroy the people in order
> to
>>> make more profit, to implement big megaproject, to exploit
>>> oil...; to dissapear the indigenous peoples to steal their
> land
>>> and their resourses....Because for the capital a entire amount
>>> of peoples doesn't matter so much, they are only small
>>> numbers in a stadistic.
>>> 
>>> Please, could you and your colective do something about this
>>> case? Could you organize a simultanous protest in front of
> all
>>> fucking colombian consulate? Could you think about
>>> something else?
>>> This people must not be small numbers in a stadistic for us.
>>> 
>>> Trasgu
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 
>>> 
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