Re: Colombia
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 3:10 pm
Esmad attacks two international observers in Colombia
The agents had identified the international observers one day before the peaceful protest in Casanare. | Photo: EFE
Published 26 January 2018 (13 hours 31 minutes ago)
The international observers accompanied a peaceful mobilization when they were repressed by Esmad officials.
The Social Corporation for Community Counseling and Training (Cospacc) and the Brotherhood and Solidarity Network with Colombia (Redher) denounced on Friday that the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad ( ESADAD ) attacked two international observers during a demonstration.
On January 25, peasant communities protested peacefully in the village of La Venturosa in the municipality of San Luis de Palenque, department of Casanare (east), to demand compliance with the agreements with the Canadian oil company Frontera Energy.
A group of Esmad, who with the purpose of repressing the mobilization, threw stones and gases against the demonstrators and intentionally against the two international observers belonging to Redher," they said in a statement .
The officials, Philipp Christopher Altgeld and Jannis Chiarle, of German and Canadian nationality respectively, accompanied the human rights defenders of Cospacc and the day before they were identified by the National Police.
After the breach of the agreement signed between the oil company and the Communal Action Boards, last October, the residents declared themselves in a permanent assembly since January 22 and notified the municipal authorities.
"We ask the corresponding authorities to carry out the relevant investigations, identify and punish those responsible," they reiterated. In addition, they asked the national and international organizations to follow up, as well as guarantees from the Colombian Government.
https://www.telesurtv.net/news/esmad-at ... -0070.html
jfc, all of this 'asking' ain't doing nothing but encouraging the fascists.
The agents had identified the international observers one day before the peaceful protest in Casanare. | Photo: EFE
Published 26 January 2018 (13 hours 31 minutes ago)
The international observers accompanied a peaceful mobilization when they were repressed by Esmad officials.
The Social Corporation for Community Counseling and Training (Cospacc) and the Brotherhood and Solidarity Network with Colombia (Redher) denounced on Friday that the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad ( ESADAD ) attacked two international observers during a demonstration.
On January 25, peasant communities protested peacefully in the village of La Venturosa in the municipality of San Luis de Palenque, department of Casanare (east), to demand compliance with the agreements with the Canadian oil company Frontera Energy.
A group of Esmad, who with the purpose of repressing the mobilization, threw stones and gases against the demonstrators and intentionally against the two international observers belonging to Redher," they said in a statement .
The officials, Philipp Christopher Altgeld and Jannis Chiarle, of German and Canadian nationality respectively, accompanied the human rights defenders of Cospacc and the day before they were identified by the National Police.
After the breach of the agreement signed between the oil company and the Communal Action Boards, last October, the residents declared themselves in a permanent assembly since January 22 and notified the municipal authorities.
"We ask the corresponding authorities to carry out the relevant investigations, identify and punish those responsible," they reiterated. In addition, they asked the national and international organizations to follow up, as well as guarantees from the Colombian Government.
https://www.telesurtv.net/news/esmad-at ... -0070.html
jfc, all of this 'asking' ain't doing nothing but encouraging the fascists.