| 28 HOURS AGO, FARC KILLED 34 PEASANTS...AND
INTERNATIONAL AMNESTY HAS KEPT SILENCE!
Bogotá, June 16 (SNE).- Colombian President Álvaro
Uribe Vélez questioned this Wednesday the silence kept by
International Amnesty after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(Farc, after its abbreviation in Spanish) murdered 34 peasants
in La Gabarra, department of Norte de Santander.
"You know what makes me sad? That at this hour I have heard
no declaration from International Amnesty. Yesterday, 34 peasants
were killed and International Amnesty has kept silence. That hurts," Uribe
sustained during an a ceremony of ascension of officials.
"International Amnesty, the same organization that abuses
of its good name to accuse the Colombian Public Force with defamations.
International Amnesty, the same organization that goes to the official
offices of the European governments requesting them to condemn
the State of Colombia because is a terrorist one," he added.
For President Uribe, the massacre of 34
peasants is "pure
and mean terrorism" and not an action of a guerilla with ideological
principles. Consequently, he manifested that Human Rights NGO's
must not have political bias and, moreover, must know who the real
terrorists are.
IA can not affirm that an "act of
authority violates human rights when it is executed by a Government
that does not have its
same ideological principles. And it can not keep silence when the
terrorist act is committed by a terrorist organization that would
seem to have ideological coincidences with the NGO."
Uribe said that, as President of the Republic, he can not act
with formalisms and not speak against these circumstances.
"Through rules of hypocritical courtesy and the lack of courage
to denounce IA, we have permitted the organization to legitimate
terrorism in an international level. We shall not permit such thing
in this Government," the Head of State pointed out.
The President requested the organization to choose between those
who murdered 34 peasants in La Gabarra or the Colombian institutions.
Finally, Uribe he reiterated his commitment
to defend institutions, the peasant people, soldiers, polices,
and black - fringed families,
and to destroy terrorism "without limiting democratic liberties".
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