Colombians March for Peace Amid Deepening Crisis

[Judi Lynn]

Colombians March for Peace Amid Deepening Crisis
Henry Mance and Susie Braun
OneWorld US
Sat., Mar. 8, 2008

BOGOTA, Mar 7 (OneWorld) - Amid the escalating diplomatic crisis with Venezuela, Ecuador, and now Nicaragua, tens of thousands of Colombians marched yesterday in solidarity with the victims of their country's violent conflict. They were joined by demonstrators in capital cities across the continent, as well as Paris and New York.

The marches were organized to call attention to crimes committed by Colombia's government and the country's paramilitary groups, which are in the process of demobilizing following a 2003 agreement with the government.
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"The problem is that the media give more information about one side {the guerrillas} than the other {the paramilitaries}," said one marcher, a displaced woman from the southern province of Meta whose daughter was killed by paramilitary groups. "The paramilitaries don't kidnap people like the FARC: they kill them straight away and cut up their bodies."

Controversially, the marches also aimed to raise awareness about the abuses by state forces in Colombia, including the army's bloody siege of the Palace of Justice in 1985 and several cases judged by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

"People stigmatize victims of the paramilitaries and of the State, saying that they must be sympathizers of the FARC," said Jose Luis Palacios, a student demonstrator. "This is one of the things we wanted to say today: being a victim of the paramilitaries or of the state doesn't mean that they are pro-FARC, just pro-peace."
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http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/158602/1/3319

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Peace Patriot has been telling us this for months and months. That news is always played down in our own media. Eventually the whole worldd is going to know, in spite of their efforts to cover it all up. How many thousands of bodies can be killed with chainsaws, and thrown into mass graves, anyway, before someone notices?

These psychopaths WILL be known as the monsters they are one of these days. There will be no escape, eventually.