A warm salute
to everyone:
This statement
is part of the public denunciation being brought forward in Colombia against
the permanent persecution of the leaders and activists victimized for defending
agriculture, industry, national production and also those who work in the
defense of human rights.
It is for this
that we ask you to spread this statement among your contacts. Perhaps some of
them might be motivated to join this campaign that ends on September 14, given the urgency
and the gravity of the threats that we have mentioned so many times.
September, 03-2013,
Brussels.
Statement rejecting the
threats against the social and political leaders in Colombia and supporting the
just social protest[1]
We, the undersigned, emphatically repudiate and
condemn the serial threats by groups on the margins of the law, such as the self-styled
“Rastrojos”, who take to violent methods to silence the denunciations by
various leaders such as those of the Alternative Democratic Pole as also trade
unions and social movements against the Santos government.
Though the Colombian government has rejected these
threats and announced that it will reinforce security measures for those who
have been threatened, there is no guarantee that these threats will not be
carried out after President Juan Manuel Santos’ irresponsible declaration
slandering Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo of the Alternative Democratic Pole,
tagging him as being the promoter of the Great National Agricultural Strike and
stigmatizing the just social protest without recognizing that this has been generated
by the neo-liberal policies applied by the previous governments and continued
by this one with the signing and implementation of more Free Trade treaties
which go against the national economy.
As such, we reject the systematic obstruction of the work
in opposition, the search for truth and reparation for the victims of
paramilitarism by parliamentarians of the Alternative Democratic Pole such as
Iván Cepeda and the political and judicial persecution against him by the
Attorney General, Alejandro Ordoñez, marking him out as an objective for those
who use violence.
From the various political parties and social
movements, we call upon the Colombian government to provide protection and
security to the democratic Opposition in Colombia so that they can continue
exercising their inalienable right to denounce the neo-liberal policies that
violate the human rights of the Colombian people.
This statement will be sent to the President of
Colombia, the Interior Minister, the Attorney General, the Ombudsman and other
governmental institutions.
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[1] - http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/politica/polo-democratico-denuncio-nuevas-amenazas-parte-de-los-articulo-439265
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