And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 08:32:55 -0600 (CST) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiapas95-english) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: En;New Image for Net-Savvy Col. Death Squads,Dec.29 > > >This message is forwarded to you as a service of Zapatistas Online. > > >Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:25:54 -0800 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Commandante Null <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Kindler, gentler, Net Savy, Colombian Death Squads. > >Anyone know FARC's URL? >Rs, >Null > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Colombian death squads launch PR offensive in cyberspace > >Copyright CR 1998 Reuters News Service > >BOGOTA (December 28, 1998 1:55 p.m. EST >Colombia's ultra-right death squads have joined other warring factions in >the country's long-running civil conflict and are carving out high-tech >battle lines in cyberspace. > >More used to using assault rifles and chain-saws in a low-tech "dirty war" >against suspected Marxist rebel sympathizers, a nationwide paramilitary >alliance known as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) launched >its Web site sometime over the last month: www.colombialibre.org. > >"The AUC is a politico-military organization which aims to confront the >military aggression of subversive groups but also calls on the state to >transform the theaters of conflict into fertile ground for development and >peaceful cohabitation," the AUC home page says. > >The page bears a logo of a peasant sowing seeds against the backdrop of a >map of Colombia colored in the yellow, blue and red of the national flag. > >Colombia's main guerrilla groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of >Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), the oldest and >largest rebel forces in the hemisphere, have had a foothold on the Internet >for at least the last two years. > >Both groups, which field a combined combat force of some 20,000 fighters, >post their founding principles on the Internet, together with keynote >speeches by rebel commanders and details of their latest military strikes. > >Not to be left behind, the Colombian army also has a home page, picturing >a fierce-looking commando clutching an Israeli-made Galil assault rifle and >daubed in camouflage war-paint. > >On the ground, the reality of Colombia's three-decade-old war is less >sophisticated. More than 35,000 people have died in the fighting in the >last 10 years alone. In the same period, some one million civilians - >many of them peasants who have never seen a computer let alone surfed >cyberspace -- have been forced to flee their homes for fear of getting >caught in the cross-fire of the bloody conflict. > > >NPC Information Associates >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >770-457-6758 >"Intelligence for the Underdog!" > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list send a message containing the words >unsubscribe chiapas95 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Previous messages >are available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html >or gopher://eco.utexas.edu. > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
