Colombia: congressman takes case against Uribe to World Court

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia: congressman takes case against Uribe to World Court

Submitted by WW4 Report on Wed, 08/18/2010 - 13:23. Colombian congressman Iván Cepeda Aug. 17 presented a case against former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for slander to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The complaint regards comments made by Uribe in 2002 in which he accused the inhabitants of the San José de Apartadó peace community, along with Jesuit Priest Javier Giraldo, of colluding with left-wing guerrillas. Following the accusations, 20 members of the peace community were murdered.

Colombian Congress investigated the accusations against Uribe, but the then-president was absolved of any wrongdoing. Cepeda, a member of leftist political party Polo Democratico, requested copies of documents pertaining to the investigation and submitted them to the ICC to be examined.

More:
http://www.ww4report.com/node/8963

[rabs]

1. Cepeda is the same congressman who was threatened

with death in an email he received a few days ago with a couple of others.

Remember he was given 20 days to "leave" Bogota.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Leave bodily, or wait, and leave in spirit form, eh? His name did look familiar.

Google translation from Radio Caracol:

Iván Cepeda denounce the ' paraeconomía ' has usurped more than 5 million hectares to victimsCaracol | August 18, 2010

In a political debate Iván Cepeda Congressman seeks to establish who is behind the theft of more than 5.5 million hectares of land to victims of violence.

The representative assured the House that will show who is behind the legalization of land dispossession and massive sales of these abandoned lands forcefully for the victims of violence.

" The official figure of dispossession is 5.5 million hectares of land usurped and contrast ashamed, because the answers for the debate say that only 2000 have been returned 75 hectares, " he said.

Iván Cepeda explained that this situation became a " paraeconomía . "

The representative reported that 45 leaders have been killed in the past two years to reclaim denuded land .
The purpose, according to the congressman, is put a face to those who seized the land.

http://www.caracol.com.co/nota.aspx?id=1342611

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Google translation:

Colombia: political leader Iván Cepeda denounced death threats
Cepeda said that with these threats attempt to disable any action that tends to seek social and political changes in Colombia.
Prensa Web RNV
August 16, 2010 , 09:16 PM

Colombia .- The political leader and social activist in Colombia , Iván Cepeda , reported Monday that a death threat by a right-wing organization in his country.

" We have asked the competent investigating authorities to determine the origin of these threats, but said that email had been signed by a group called Black Eagles, " Cepeda said .

He warned that "in Colombia that denomination has served to mask alleged paramilitary groups had been demobilized under President Alvaro Uribe. "

The congressman, the opposition party Polo Democrático Alternativo ( PDA , left), the threat associated with a legislative debate that aims to boost next week , on the situation of victims of internal conflict.

Cepeda said that with these threats attempt to disable any action that tends to seek social and political changes in Colombia. "I have not left the city ( Bogotá ) and I will not go , "he told the program Kickback , which transmits VTV.

Iván Cepeda is the son of former Senator Manuel Cepeda , who was assassinated in 1994 by a right-wing command to which they belonged military and paramilitary , which the Colombian State was condemned by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

http://www.rnv.gov.ve/noticias/?act=ST&f=&t=134661

[Peace Patriot]

3. My God, what a brave man, to stand up in the world against Uribe's filthy tactic

of targeting people and groups for the death squads, and refusing to leave Bogota in spite of getting recent death threats himself!

[gbscar]

4. Uribe's own words and actions have made him deserve this, so he's not getting my sympathy...

...and thus I also have to congratulate Iván Cepeda -with whom I once had a short but cordial e-mail exchange after which we ultimately disagreed without having to insult or threaten anyone- for this move. Whatever else I might say, there is indeed courage involved in his decision.