----- Original Message ----- From: SolidNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 7:23 PM Subject: FARC-EP, Communiqu&igr; of the Caribbean Bloc FARC-EP (18-10-2000) SolidNet The purpose of the Solid Net ( Solidarity Network ) is to inform on the activities as well as the ideological and political views of different Communist and Workers� Parties on National and International issues. All articles in the SolidNet are the responsibility of the authors and in no way commit this Web Site. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.solidnet.org ============================================================= FARC-EP, Communiqu&igr; of the Caribbean Bloc FARC-EP (18-10-2000) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Sat, 21 Oct 2000 ========================================================= Communiqu&igr; of the Caribbean Bloc FARC-EP (18-10-2000) The Caribbean Bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia�People�s Army denounces: 1.The First Brigade of Marine Infantry, commanded by Colonel Rodrigo Quinones Cardenas, is directly responsible for the successive massacres that have been taking place in the Montes de Maria. 2.The recent massacre of 15 peasants by clubs and machetes on Oct. 16 and 17, was carried out by the Tiburon Company of the 31st Anti-guerrilla Battalion of the Marine Infantry and elements of the 11th Brigade of the Army. These armed forces also stole cattle, horses and hens and burned the homes of the peasants. 3. For this deed, a security force of 400 soldiers of the 31st and 33rd Anti-guerrilla Battalions of the Marine Infantry and of the Bafin 5 was deployed so that the Tiburon Company could act without being surprised. This deployment included the hamlets of Macayepo, El Limon, Floral, La Palma y La Pita, in Bolivar Dept. and Verruga, Bajo Don Juan, La Palmira, El Pavo, Buenos Aires, Cana Fria and Palo Alto in Sucre Dept. 4.The maximum leader of the paramilitaries in Sucre and Central Bolivar is Colonel Harold Mantilla Serrano, commander of the Bafin 5. This colonel is the co-ordinator of the massacres and the one who prepares the lists of peasants to be murdered. These lists are then sent to his groups of operatives in the squad�s non-com 4 by 4. 5.Other marine infantry officers involved in massacres or crimes against humanity in the Monte de Maria are: Colonel Jorge Castaneda, commandant of the 31st Battalion and immediate chief of the Tiburon Company, Colonel Benjamin Herrera, commandant of the Bafin 3 and Major Moncada Galindo, commandant of the 33rd Battalion. All of them are at the service of the big landowners in the region. 6.The repeated massacres of the unarmed civilian population at the hands of the marine infantry in the Montes de Maria region constitute an irrefutable demonstration that the much vaunted cleansing of the armed forces by President Pastrana is nothing but a fallacy aimed at producing favourable effects for his government in the exterior. General Staff of the Caribbean Bloc of the FARC-EP. Mountains of Colombia, Oct. 18, 2000. *End*
