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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN class=734333014-22052006><FONT face="Eras Demi ITC">Hello
everyone,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><SPAN class=734333014-22052006><FONT
face="Eras Demi ITC"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><SPAN class=734333014-22052006><FONT
face="Eras Demi ITC">please widely circulate the attached leaflet, which
advertises a visit to Sheffield by three local leaders of Colombia's 'Black
Communities Process'. The leaflet text has been reproduced
below.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><SPAN class=734333014-22052006><FONT
face="Eras Demi ITC"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><SPAN class=734333014-22052006><FONT
face="Eras Demi ITC">One of them, Arcenides Candelo, has been denied a visa by
the UK government. Why? - <SPAN class=187393615-23052006> the UK
embassy didn't give a reason, but campaigners suspect that
it's </SPAN>because she is 5 months pregnant. Presumably, the govt. is
scared that she might require NHS services while in the UK!!! Meanwhile, the UK
is draining poor countries of their doctors and nurses!!!!! </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><FONT face="Eras Demi ITC"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><SPAN class=734333014-22052006><FONT
face="Eras Demi ITC">I've also reproduced below the latest 'Urgent Action' from
Colombia. Such dreadful bulletins arrive every week, but of course go unreported
in the media. You'd never guess that Colombia has more internal refugees than
Dafur/Sudan! Of course, the US doesn't need to disguise itself in the UN's blue
berets in order to mount an imperialist military intervention in Colombia;
they're already there, training death squads and spraying the jungle with
defoliants... </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><SPAN class=734333014-22052006><FONT
face="Eras Demi ITC"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><SPAN class=734333014-22052006><FONT
face="Eras Demi ITC">best wishes</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><SPAN class=734333014-22052006><FONT
face="Eras Demi ITC"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><SPAN class=734333014-22052006><FONT
face="Eras Demi ITC">JS</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><SPAN class=734333014-22052006><FONT
face="Eras Demi ITC"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 30pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Bold ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><IMG
height=304 hspace=12 src="cid:734333014@22052006-35E1" width=283 align=left
v:shapes="_x0000_s1026">Colombia</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 30pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Bold ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">:</SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
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</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 27pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Bold ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Social
Movements resist repression, corporate take-over<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<P class=LASOBulletin style="MARGIN: 6pt 5.65pt 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">Public
Meeting</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">:</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 21pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 23pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">7.30pm<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thursday 8 June</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=LASOBulletin style="MARGIN: 3pt 5.65pt 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">Function
Room,</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">
</SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">Spital</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Hill</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Plaza</st1:PlaceType></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">,
</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">68
Spital Hill</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">,
</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">S3<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=LASOBulletin style="MARGIN: 0cm 5.65pt 6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">(near
Burngreave Green)</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0cm 15pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">with</SPAN></I><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'"> Jorge
Aramburo, Arcenides Candelo & Maria <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Valencia</st1:country-region></st1:place> from <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Proceso de Comunidades Negras</I> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Black Communities
Process)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN>
<DIV class=Section2>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 8.2pt 6pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Members
of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Proceso de Comunidades Negras</I>
(PCN) are to visit <st1:place w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place> as part of a
European tour. They want the world to know of the violence and injustice
suffered by <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Colombia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s poor majority, especially
black and indigenous peoples, of their resistance and of their determination to
achieve social justice and protect nature.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 8.2pt 6pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Afro-Colombians,
a fifth of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Colombia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s 45 million people, are
concentrated in the lush and resource-rich lands along its Pacific coast. For
years, they’ve been subjected to cruel repression by right-wing paramilitary
forces attempting to clear their land for ‘development’ by local businessmen and
foreign investors. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 8.2pt 6pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Afro-Colombians
figure disproportionately among <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Colombia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s 3 million internal
refu</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">gees.
Many PCN activists and leaders have been assassinated, a fate met by <SPAN
style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line">thousands of Colombian trade unionists, students
and community activists </SPAN>e<SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line">ach
year.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 8.2pt 0pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Please
make sure that Jorge, Arcenides & Maria receive a warm welcome to <st1:place
w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place>. Come and hear how, in face of great odds, their
struggle continues, and discuss how we can make a
difference!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 14.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
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clear=all></DIV></SPAN>
<DIV class=Section3>
<P class=LASOBulletin style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P></DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
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clear=all></DIV></SPAN>
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align=center><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Colombia</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">
Solidarity Campaign, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">PO Box
8446</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">N17 6NZ</st1:PostalCode></st1:address></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><A
href="http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"><FONT
size=3>www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=3> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For local info, contact 07973 866
323<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Eras Demi ITC"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3><STRONG>COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT
BRUTALLY ATTACKS RURAL PROTESTS IN THE SOUTH WEST OF <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">COLOMBIA</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>Beginning on the 15th May 2006 more than
fifteen thousand representatives of campesino, indigenous and black community
groups from across the South West of Colombia began arriving at the Indigenous
Reserve of 'La Maria' in the department of Cauca, South West Colombia.
They were there to protest the effects of the Free Trade Agreement signed
between <st1:country-region w:st="on">Colombia</st1:country-region> and the
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> and to criticise the lack of progress on
national and regional agreements to expand land rights to indigenous and black
communities in the region.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>The protestors took the decision to peacefully
occupy the Pan-American Highway, which links the Departments of Valle de Cauca,
Cauca and Narino and extends downwards to <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ecuador</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
They demanded that the government begin dialogue with these marginalised
populations and comply with its legal obligations. In characteristic <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Colombia</st1:country-region></st1:place> state style the Uribe
government met peaceful protest with overwhelming violence.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>On Tuesday 16th May ESMAD, the
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Colombia</st1:place></st1:country-region> riot police, entered La
Maria injuring 26 people and shooting three. Pedro Coscue, was one of those shot
and he later died of his wounds. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>On Wednesday protests continued and the ESMAD
repeated their attacks. By Thursday 18th May many more protestors had been
injured and 19 people were reported 'disappeared' with their whereabouts unknown
and the Colombian authorities refusing to concede whether they were in
custody.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>Even more worrying was the action of the
Governor of the Cauca Region who suggested that the protests were being led by
the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The governor's words served
to legitimise the excessive use of force by the police. Accusations that the
protests were coordinated by the FARC were fiercely denied by the protestors and
their representatives. Floro Tunubala, the ex governor of the Cauca Department
and the first ever indigenous governor in Colombia, criticised the current
governor for 'forgetting that the indigenous movement and the social
organisations of Cauca have rejected and condemned the barbarities committed by
the guerrilla and the paramilitaries in Colombia, and have demanded respect for
life through a series of marches realised over the last few years rejecting the
armed conflict in the region'.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>The organisations leading the protest are now
calling for national and international solidarity to challenge the repressive
actions of the state and are demanding that the United Nations sends a
delegation to monitor the situation. They are calling on the government to
respect the right to peaceful protest of the more than 15,000 demonstrators and
to desist from using excessive force and violent against
them.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>Please send letters urging the Colombian
government to respect the fundamental human rights of protesters, release the 19
'disappeared' protestors, and address the legitimate demands of
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Colombia</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s indigenous, black and
campesino populations:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>Please send messages of protest to (sample
letter below):</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3><A
href="mailto:auribe@presidencia.gov.co">auribe@presidencia.gov.co</A><SPAN
class=734333014-22052006>; </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3><A
href="mailto:mail@colombianembassy.co.uk">mail@colombianembassy.co.uk</A><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>With Copies
to:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3><A
href="mailto:dhprohibidolvidar@yahoo.com">dhprohibidolvidar@yahoo.com</A><SPAN
class=734333014-22052006>; </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3><A
href="mailto:info@colombiasolidarity.org.uk">info@colombiasolidarity.org.uk</A><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3><STRONG>Sample
Letter:<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>Dear President
Uribe,<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>We, members of the international community are
deeply concerned for the wellbeing and human rights of the thousands of
indigenous, black and campesino communities that have gathered in the South West
of Colombia to peacefully protest against current government
policies.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>We call on the Colombian Government to respect
the fundamental human rights of all <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Colombia</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s citizens and to ensure the
swift return of the following disappeared people:</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>1. Wilmer Vitonaz Mosquera 22 años (Corinto,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">las
Cruces</st1:City></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>2. Niña de 7 años de apellido Peteche
(Caloto Resguardo del Huila) <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>3. Elías Sánchez 40 años (Tacueyó)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>4. Adolfo Coicué, 28 años (Tacueyó, zona
Damián) <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>5. José Alexander Yalanda 18 años (La María)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>6. Adriana Valencia 24 años (Morales zona de
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">honduras</st1:country-region></st1:place>)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>7. Misael Biscunda Chocué (<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San pablo</st1:City></st1:place>)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>8. Manuel Yalanda (La María)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>9. Luis Enrique Acosta Casamachin 45 años
(Corinto, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San
Pablo</st1:City></st1:place>) <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>10. Miguel Carabalí -afrodescendiente- 45
años (Salvajina)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>11. Ernesto Rodallejas -Afrodescendiente- 35
años(Salvajina)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>12. Víctor Masuique 50 años
(Pajarito)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>13. Gentil Geucha isco 18 años (Caloto,
resguardo Huila)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>14. Alberto Rivera 26 años (Jambaló, la mina)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>15. Luz Mery Chocué 25 años (Jambaló, La Mina)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>16. Carolina Opocué 27 años (Toribío)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>17. Vilma Rivera 26 años (<st1:City
w:st="on">Santander</st1:City> zona <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">urbana</st1:City></st1:place>) <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>18. Carlos Andrés Ruíz 22 años (<st1:City
w:st="on">Santander</st1:City> zona <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">urbana</st1:City></st1:place>) <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>19. María Opocué 26 años
(Toribío)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>Furthermore, we demand that the Colombian
government investigates the events surrounding the assassination of Pedro Coscue
and call for the prosecution of those
responsible.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"><FONT size=3>Faithfully<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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