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Army and Riot Police violently evict U?was
June 26, 2000 @ 05:00:00 am
Colombia / FoE Colombia / - In the early morning of June 24, a Colombian military convoy transiting through the municipality of Cubara - a traditional territory of the U

They had several untis of riot police. Once they managed to get in the middle of the indigenous mobilisation they started attacking them violently. This happened at 4:30 am, stopped around 6:30 am and started again at around 9:00 am.

The U?wa community says it has injured people with contusions, children that need hospitalisation and they fear the consequences could be terrible. The attack was by surprise and violent using tear gas and beating people.

They ask the international community to urge the Colombian government and other international bodies of human rights to stop all aggressions against the U?wa people and that the police and army retire from their ancestral territories. We remind you that these actions happen after the US congress approved military support for the Plan Colombia, a plan for which the Occidental corporation, in which US Vice President Al Gore is a major stockholder, made a permanent lobby.

Censat Agua Viva (FoE Colombia)
Apartado A?reo 16789
Tel: +57-1-2456860
Telefax: +57-1-2458906
Santaf? de Bogot?, D.C. Colombia
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