>from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Colombia: It Isn't FARC Bombing the Peace Process > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > The First Bomb Dropped on the Table of Dialogue > >The cruelty of the murder of Mrs. Elvia Cortes in Chiquinquira, a >crime repudiated and condemned by the FARC-EP, as well as the >yellow journalistic treatment given the event by some sectors of the >large scale press, are evidence of the grave moral illnesses that are >sinking Colombia in a mire of infamy. > >The reckless evaluations of some top hierarchs of the Catholic >Church who, against the constant calls by Pope John Paul II for peace >in Colombia, are clamouring for war and vengeance, spreading hatred >and promoting retaliation, give notice to the country of what the >future may hold. > >But the most worrying aspect of this situation has been the attitude >of the high levels of the government which, based on the >provocative declarations of the military commands, is backing >measures moving toward cancellation of the process of talks with the >FARC-People's Army. > >It would be more honest on the part of the government for it to tell >the country clearly whether it is faltering in its policy of >dialogues because President Clinton publicly demanded it or because >the pressures of the Colombian militarists are very great at this >time of difficult govern ability, leading it to the abandonment of >its electoral promise of a peace agreement. > >Angry presidential pronouncements and impositions contrary to >the agreements reached at the Table, such as the first International >Public Hearing on the environment and substitution of illegal crops, >scheduled for May 29 and 30, have been made. These cannot be >cancelled unilaterally since that would put the continuation of the >process at risk. An end to the talks for this reason would be the >responsibility of the National Government, together with all the >consequences that would entail. > >No military manoeuvre, however crude, can make the President of >the Republic loose the good judgement needed for the building of >national reconciliation and the elimination of the grave pathologies >born of this corrupt and intolerant Colombian political regime. > >Those who want to cut off this process, have chosen the wrong >pretext. > >Secretariat of the Central General Staff, FARC-People's >Army Mountains of Colombia, May 17, 2000. > >source [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 20 2000 > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
