Mitglied des kolumbianischen Bauerverbandes CNA ermordet!

Der kolumbianische Bauernverband Coordinador Nacional Agrario - CNA (Teil des internationalen Netzwerkes Red de Hermandad y Solidaridad) hat uns am 27. Juli die traurige Nachricht über die Ermordung von Jose Trinidad Torres, Mitglied des Bauernkomites CISCA in der Region Catatumbo und Delegierter des CNA, geschickt.
Der Mord ist im Kontext der schlimmen Repression durch Paramilitärs und Armee gegen die soziale Bewegung in Kolumbien zu sehen!

Wir bitten Euch das unten angehängte Protestschreiben per Mail/Fax an die unten angehängten Adressen zu senden.

Kolumbienkampagne Berlin.

Campesino Leader Assassinated in Catatumbo, Norte de Santander.

The National Agrarian Co-ordination (CNA) and the undersigned organisations denounce to national and international public opinion the assassination of JOSE TRINIDAD TORRES MUNOZ, who was a member of the CNA national committee, and activist in several local community organisations.

FACTS:

In the morning of 26 July 2005, as he was returning to the town of Ocana in Norte de Santander, after carrying out his role in defence of Campesino communities, JOSE TRINIDAD TORRES MUNOZ was shot dead by a masked man in the municipality of Teorama.
We ask that social organisations around the world immediately write to the Colombian authorities, demanding that they fully investigate this crime and bring those responsible to justice.
We also ask that the government investigate if the allegedly demobilised Catatumbo Block of the AUC paramilitaries was involved in this killing.

Please send messages to the following (sample letter below):

President Alvaro Uribe Velez: auribe@presidencia.gov.co OR to better send e-mail to Uribe login to http://www.presidencia.gov.co and click on ESCRIBALE AL PRESIDENTE at the bottom of the page

• Vice President Francisco Santos: fsantos@presidencia.gov.co
  
• Ministry of Defence: siden@mindefensa.gov.co
  
• Attorney General's Office: contacto@fiscalia.gov.co
  
• Colombian embassy in the UK: mail@colombianembassy.co.uk

“Dear Sir,

I am writing to express my outrage at yet another murder of a social activist in Colombia. I urge the Colombian authorities to immediately investigate the facts surrounding the killing of JOSE TRINIDAD TORRES MUNOZ, and to do all in its power to bring those responsible to justice. I am particularly concerned by the possibility that those responsible for Jose Trinidad’s death belonged to the Catatumbo block of the AUC paramilitaries, who are supposed to have demobilised in November 2004.

According to the Vice Presidents Human Rights Obsevatory, this block of the AUC is responsible for more than 3,000 violent deaths, 200 disappearances and 40,000 forced displacements.

I also urge the Colombian state to refrain from any activity that endangers the lives of other members of the Coordinador Nacional Agrario (CNA) in Norte de Santander and the rest of the country.

Yours sincerely”

ADRESSEN

Dr. Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Presidencia de la República
Cra. 8 No..7-26, Palacio de Nariño,
Bogotá, D.C. Fax: (+57 1) 566.20.71 E-mail: auribe@presidencia.gov.co

Dr. Francisco Santos, Vicepresidencia de la República
E-mail:fsantos@presidencia.gov.co

Dr. Camilo Ospina, Ministerio de Defensa Nacional.
El Dorado con Carrera. 52 CAN, Bogotá, D.C. Fax: (+57 1)222.18.74 E-mail: siden@mindefensa.gov.co, infprotocol@mindefensa.gov.co , mdn@cable.net.co

Dr. Edgardo José Maya Villazón, Procuraduría General de la Nación
Carrera 5 No. 15-80 Bogotá, D.C. Fax: (+57 1)342.97.23
E-mail: reygon@procuraduria.gov.co ; anticorrupcion@presidencia.gov.co

Dr. Carlos Franco, Programa Presidencial de Derechos Humanos y de Derecho Internacional Humanitario. Calle 7 N° 5-54 TEL: (+571) 336.03.11 FAX: (+57 1) 337.46.67
E- mail: cefranco@presidencia.gov.co; fibarra@presidencia.gov.co

Dr. Luis Camilo Osorio, Fiscalía General de la Nación
Diagonal 22 B No.52-01, Bogotá, D.C. Fax: (+571) 570 20 00
E-mail: contacto@fiscalia.gov.co ; denuncie@fiscalia.gov.co

Unidad de Derechos Humanos y de Derecho Internacional Humanitario
E - mail: elbsilva@fiscalia.gov.co

Dr. Volmar Antonio Pérez Ortiz, Defensoría del Pueblo
Calle 55 No. 10-32 Bogotá, D.C. Fax: (+571) 640 04 91
E-mail:secretaria_privada@hotmail.com

Dr Michael Frühling, Oficina en Colombia del Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos
Calle 114 No. 9-45 Torre B Oficina 1101. Edificio Teleport Bussines Park. Bogotá, D.C. Teléfono PBX (57-1) 629 3636 Fax (57-1) 629 3637
E-mail: oacnudh@hchr.org.co.