-Caveat Lector-
Subject:
[houstonpeaceroundtable] AP: As warring sides
mobilize in Colombia, archbishop warns of
apocalypse
Date:
Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:07:32 -0600
From:
"Ken Freeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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[NOTE: Time to wake up, folks! The Green Berets are
just 18 miles away
from the front, "training" the Colombians. -DG]
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Just 18 miles from Doncello, one of the towns where
the army was
deploying troops and tanks, some 85 U.S. special
forces troops were
training Colombian anti-narcotics army troops, the
U.S. Embassy said.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wednesday, 24 January 2001
As warring sides mobilize in Colombia, archbishop
warns of
pocalypse ---------------------------- ----------
By Cesar Garcia
SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Colombia -- Colombia deployed
more troops
Wednesday toward the borders of a huge
rebel-controlled swath of
territory. With rebel forces also mobilizing, an
archbishop predicted a
blood bath if peace efforts collapse.
"There won't be combat between the two sides, but a
dirty war," said
Francisco Javier Munera, archbishop of San Vicente del
Caguan, the main
town in the zone the rebels control. "If the peace
process is interrupted,
we will have an apocalypse."
Light tanks rumbled Wednesday toward the so-called
demilitarized zone,
where Army Col. Romulo Vasquez said hundreds of rebel
soldiers were
mobilizing.
"We're in a state of alert," he said.
The demilitarized zone is an area twice the size of
New Jersey in
Colombia's south. President Andres Pastrana ceded it
to the country's main
leftist rebel group - the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia, or
ARC - two years ago to kick-start peace talks and to
have a site where
talks could take place.
Pastrana must decide by Jan. 31 whether to renew the
FARC's control over
the zone. He has done so several times in the past.
But with the FARC
suspending peace talks in November and no sign that
either side will make
concessions, Colombia's military is preparing for a
possible escalation in
the country's now 37-year-old civil war.
"We are deploying troops where they can be most
effective regarding the
situation that can come up on Jan. 31," army Gen.
Arcensio Barrero said.
The 15,000-strong FARC is deeply entrenched in the
zone. A decision to
take it back could spark heavy fighting and would
effectively end the
peace process, a top priority of Pastrana's
administration.
Munera urged Pastrana and FARC leader Manuel
"Sureshot" Marulanda to meet.
Pastrana cut short a trip to Europe because of the
crisis and was due to
return to Colombia on Sunday.
Residents, meanwhile, were bracing for the worst.
Most of the 3,000 people
killed each year in the war are civilians attacked by
right-wing
paramilitary gunmen or by leftist rebels for allegedly
supporting the
opposing side.
If the government does not renew the rebel zone, it
must protect its
civilians, said Nestor Ramirez, mayor of San Vicente.
Pope John Paul II decried the rising violence
Wednesday, appealing for end
to kidnappings, bombings and attacks linked to drug
trafficking.
"I am also asking all parties to promote an effective
and honest
dialogue," he said in a special appeal during his
weekly general audience.
"It is time to return to the Lord of Life, so that he
moves the hearts of
Colombians and makes them understand that they are one
large family."
Just 18 miles from Doncello, one of the towns where
the army was deploying
troops and tanks, some 85 U.S. special forces troops
were training
Colombian anti-narcotics army troops, the U.S. Embassy
said.
The training is part of Washington's $1.3 billion aid
initiative aimed at
stamping out drug trafficking, which yields the
leftist rebels and
right-wing paramilitary groups huge profits. After the
training, Colombian
soldiers will be sent to battle rebels engaged in
cocaine production
further south.
In October, a FARC commander warned that "all
Colombian or foreign
military personnel who are in the combat zones will be
military targets."
However, rebels have never penetrated the U.S.
encampment in the middle of
the sprawling Larandia army base, a spokeswoman for
the Colombian army
said.
Copyright 2001 Associated Press
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