From: "Claudia K. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Angelfire (http://email.angelfire.mailcity.lycos.com:80) Reply-To: "STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:59:54 -0800 Subject: AFP: Twenty murdered in attacks across Colombia attributed to From: Colombian Labor Monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1/10/01 8:10 AM Mountain Standard Time Message-id: <93hu1p$669$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [NOTE: Keeping Barrancabermeja from bleeding to death would be easier if General Carreno and his officers severed their links to the local paramilitary groups that have operated with impunity in the Magdalena Medio region. Don't forget how the death-squads get waved into the city past army and police roadblocks in order to carry out their gruesome mission of terrorizing the city's unions and working class. -DG] =============================================== "Policing Barrancabermeja is not easy; it is a powder keg where all sorts of miscreants come together," said General Martin Carreno, the region's police chief. "There are gang members, guerrillas and paramilitaries compounding the area's serious unemployment problem." ___________ =============================================== AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Wednesday, 10 January 2001 Twenty murdered in attacks across Colombia attributed to paramilitaries ------------------------------------- BOGOTA - Violent attacks across Colombia Monday and Tuesday have left 20 dead in crimes authorities are attributing to right-wing paramilitaries, who have sworn to fight "to the death" against the country's leftist rebels. The scene of the worst crime was the northeastern port city of Barrancabermeja, the home of Colombia's largest petroleum refinery, where eight people were killed by unidentified armed men, bringing the total number of deaths there since the start of the year to 27, police said Tuesday. "Policing Barrancabermeja is not easy; it is a powder keg where all sorts of miscreants come together," said General Martin Carreno, the region's police chief. "There are gang members, guerrillas and paramilitaries compounding the area's serious unemployment problem." The right-wing Self-Defense Units of Colombia (AUC) have battled against rebels from the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and National Liberation Army (ELN) since the advent of the country's protracted 37-year civil war. More than 300,000 people have lost their lives. A second massacre came at dawn Tuesday, near the northeastern hamlet of Carmen de Viboral in Antioquia province. Five people were killed in an attack that authorities again attributed to right-wing paramilitaries. Antioquia has been beset by violent attacks in recent days, with three farmers found dead Saturday and some 13 people killed last Wednesday, by a group of men who left the local population in a state of fear and panic over the attacks. In the town of Cucuta on the Venezuelan border, four people, including a woman, were also killed Tuesday. There have been no clear motives for any of the attacks, and no one has claimed responsibility. Colonel Luis Estupinan said preliminary reports indicate a group of 15 men identified as AUC insurgents were responsible for the Cucuta attacks. Three farmers in the southeastern province of Valle were allegedly killed by paramilitaries for their sneakers, according to a local official. Restrepo Mayor Alberto Cardona said the men wore shoes from a shipment hijacked by FARC guerrillas nearly two weeks prior, and were thus targeted by the paramilitaries. A total of 38,820 Colombians died in violent circumstances in the year 2000, a 10 percent increase in the country's violent death rate, according to official figures. The Institute of Legal Medicine of Colombia said 2,635 more violent deaths were registered in 2000 than 1999. Some 25,505 people were victims of homicide, equivalent to 66 percent of the total, institute figures revealed. Both rebel and paramilitary forces routinely target civilians suspected of collaborating with the other. FARC rebels formally froze the peace process with the Colombian government on November 14, accusing President Andres Pastrana's government of not doing enough to crack down on right-wing paramilitary groups. 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