From: Colombian Labor Monitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 18:37:08 -0500 (CDT)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AP: Colombia peace activist killed
[NOTE: There is no question that the paramilitaries
are responsible for the assassination of this brave
activist. Nor is there any doubt that behind the
paramilitaries are the local military command that
has seamlessly worked with the death-squads in their
campaign of terror in Barrancabermeja and the rest of
the Magdalena Medio region. -DG]
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''We are certain this was the paramilitaries.''
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wednesday, 4 July 2001
Colombia peace activist killed
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BOGOTA -- A lawyer who worked as an adviser to a prominent Colombian peace
group was abducted and killed over the weekend, police said Wednesday.
Colleagues of Alma Jaramillo, the slain lawyer who worked in poor
communities in a northern war zone, have blamed a right-wing paramilitary
militia for her death. No group had claimed responsibility.
Jaramillo's bullet-ridden body was found Sunday in the town of Morales in
northern Bolivar state, near where she was reportedly abducted Friday amid
clashes in the area between paramilitaries and rival leftist guerrillas.
''We are certain this was the paramilitaries,'' Melba Quijano, a
spokeswoman for the Peace and Development Project in the Middle Magdalena
Region, based in the nearby city of Barrancabermeja, told local Radionet
Radio.
Interrupted phone service to the rural region on Wednesday made it
difficult to immediately obtain more details.
The organization headed by Jesuit priest Francisco D'Roux has tried to
maintain a neutral profile in promoting peace in the area around Bolivar
state.
The region is a hotbed of conflict between guerrillas and rival
paramilitaries. The groups are fighting for strategic territory and
control over drug plantations fueling Colombia's 37-year armed conflict.
Human rights activists have been assassinated in the past by rightist
death squads.
Copyright 2001 Associated Press
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