Autoridad Tradicional

Resolución No. 025 del 8 de Julio de 1999 Dirección de Asuntos Indígenas Ministerio del Interior

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Please respond to these two Urgent Actions concerning paramilitary death threats against trade unionists and social activists in Bucaramanga and Barrancabermeja – two cities in Santander.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Organization Wayúu Munusurat is a group that has been working for the defence of the human rights of displaced peoples and the victims of paramilitary groups operating in La Guajira, Colombia with the accompaniment of national and international organizations.

With this communiqué we want to update everyone of the grave situation that members of our organization are facing including death threats, hostilities, persecution and pressure on behalf of the Northern Bloc of the Autodefence group (paramilitaries) of the Counter Wayúu Insurgency who have not demobilized and continue to operating within our territories.

Riohacha, La Guajira 

March 18th, 2008

 

ORGANIZACION WAYUU MUNSURAT

 March 18th, 2008

Four trade union leaders have been assassinated in the week of the 6 March protests.

On 12 February a brown envelope was left outside the home of José Domingo Florez in Bucaramanga, north of Colombia. It contained the following death threat against Coca-Cola workers and leaders of SINALTRAINAL trade union: 

Corporación Social Para la Asesoría y Capacitación Comunitaria COS-PACC (Social Corporation for Community Advice and Capacity Building),  Fundación Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos FCSPP (Political Prisoners Solidarity Committee) and the Red Europea de Hermandad y Solidaridad con Colombia REDHER (European Friendship and Solidarity Network) denounce: