Leaders of displaced found murdered in central Colombia

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Leaders of displaced found murdered in central Colombia
Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:30
Jim Glade

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Three young leaders of an NGO representing displaced in Colombia were found dead this weekend with their bodies shot and decomposed.

With this discovery of the decomposing bodies the number of dead coalition members has risen to 45 since 2002, reported weekly Semana Tuesday.

The bodies of Andres Alfonso Arenas Buelvas, 27, and the brothers Yonnel and José Alfonso Delgado Villamil, 23 and 26, were found in an area near Santa Rosa Creek, in the municipality of La Trina, Tolima. The victims had been missing since December 23.

Semana reported that these young men were members of "New Dawn," a coalition of displaced peoples petitioning the government to allow them to return to their land. Jose Villamil was reportedly a member of La Mesa de Concertacion de Tierras, an organization with similar goals. The young men were all displaced by paramilitaries from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region in the north of Colombia.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Colombia Urgent Action: Death Threats to Human Rights and Indigenous Leaders

Colombia Urgent Action: Death Threats to Human Rights and Indigenous Leaders
Report by Colombia Solidarity
Published: 12/01/10

SUPER URGENT ACTION: INSISTENT BLACK EAGLES DEATH THREATS AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS AND INDIGENOUS LEADERS IN VALLE AND CAUCA, COLOMBIA

7 January, 2010

We, the organizations signing below, inform the international and national community of the following:

Texted Death Threats to Martha Giraldo and Aida Quilcue

At 9. 39pm on 30th December 2010, the following text message was received by Martha Giraldo, coordinator of the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes Valle del Cauca branch (MOVICE), and Aida Quilcue, ex-leader of the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council (CRIC) and the Minga of Social and Communitarian Resistance:

“guerrilla rats, this is how we wanted to have you, cornered and crying for help all over the place. MOVICE, ECATE, CUT, NOMADESC, death to you communist dogs.

Tonight at midnight we start with Martha Giraldo, Berenice, Luz Marina, Cristina, the Indian Quilcue, Yon, Posso, Wilson and with every one of your children.

Black Eagles cleansing the country of these communist sons of bitches, you won’t see the New Year.“

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[Judi Lynn]

2. 'DAS paid foreigner to spy on Cordoba'

'DAS paid foreigner to spy on Cordoba'
Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:59 Adriaan Alsema

Colombia's state intelligence agency DAS paid a foreigner to spy on then-Senator Piedad Cordoba while she was on a controversial visit to Mexico in 2007, reported Caracol TV on Tuesday.

The television network was given a declaration made before prosecutors by the DAS' former operations coordinator Fabio Duarte, who testified that the DAS paid $10,000 dollars to receive the bill of a Mexico City hotel, which was paid for by the Mexican Workers' Party.

In the testimony, the former DAS coordinator said the bill was given to former DAS director Maria del Pilar Hurtado, who fled Colombia in 2010 and is now in Panama where she enjoys political asylum.

According to Duarte, the hotel bill was taken to the presidential palace, because it was "of total interest" of then President Alvaro Uribe.

The former official testified that DAS paid the foreign spy $10,000 for the bill.

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