Archive - Sep 2006

September 29th

(resent with required e-address) COLOMBIA URGENT ACTION: Ask Colombian Government to Meet With Miners

COLOMBIA URGENT ACTION: Ask Colombian Government to Meet With Miners

COLOMBIA: CPTers accompany mining region residents who demand justice after assassination, other military abuses

After months of increasing military presence in their communities, 1300 miners, their families and other residents of Colombia's Southern Bolivar region are in a tense standoff with civilian and military authorities.

The act that turned simmering discontent into organized protest was the assassination on 19 September of Alejandro Uribe, a community leader and father of two. 

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