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Request for intervention on the law of victims and the right to peace

10/06/2011

Our message is in memory of those who were victims of extrajudicial executions, torture and forced disappearances and those who have lived or are in condition of forced displacement, dispossession and violent prosecution, crimes that reflect a way of persecution and extermination which are being committed by state structures from the 70’s.

Mister BAN KI-MOON, General Secretary of the United Nations

 

Ref: Request for intervention on the law of victims and the right to peace

 

Criminalization of opinion and of humanitarian work for Peace.

15/10/2010

The Ethics Commission for Truth in Colombia

We members of the Ethical Truth Commission, who accompany the Movement of Victims of State Crimes, question and object to the decision made by the Inspector General of Colombia, Alejandro Ordoñez regarding Senator Piedad Córdoba, and we express our solidarity with her and with those who work for peace through dialogue in Colombia.

Letter from colombian political prisonners

04/05/2009
Published in [4strugglemag Views, Thoughts, and Analysis from the Hearts and Minds of North American Political Prisoners and Friends->http://pasc.ca/ecrire/?exec=articles_edit&id_article=483] San Juan de Girón (Colombia)-2009 Colombia, a country increasingly to the right, has generated in a nightmare a dangerous monster with clear ‘neofascist’ tendencies whose morbid plan is sponsored by the narco-paramilitary Alvaro Uribe Velez and his cabinet of criminals in government.

Colombia and its criminal politics

16/02/2009
Published in la Piedra No 5, In Colombia, the criminalization of social and popular sectors that oppose the current regime is a national disgrace. Since the 60s, every successive government has used the judiciary arm as a powerful tool to punish dissidents and rebels who fight the hideous repressive status quo imposed upon the Colombian people by the secular oligarchy of this country. It is worth looking over the last 50 years of history to understand how the judicial system has been used to repress the Colombian people.

Indigenous Minga

14/09/2008

After facing the police's bullets, and suffering one death and 122 serious injuries, the Minga of Social and Communitarian Resistance finally gets President Uribe to agree to a public debate in La Maria Indigenous Reserve, Piendamo, Cauca department, Colombia on 2nd November 2008. Minga leader and head of the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council Aida Quilcue gives this emotional, inspirational speech, live on national television and addressing President Uribe and his cabinet directly.

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