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bristol | protests | feature Monday March 10, 2008 07:49 by imcvol

"We are all Colombia!"; Twinning Scheme to Protect Threatened Members of Rural Communities Begins

"We are all Colombia!" Marchers Chant as 'Twinning' Scheme to Protect Threatened Members of Rural Communities Begins

Guayusa Andina and Guayabo Pastuso of Espacio Bristol-Colombia write; On Thursday we were on the streets of Bogotá as thousands of Colombians took to the streets again, this time in homage to the more than 15,000 victims of state terrorism in the country. We marched with campesinos from BP’s oil exploration region of Casanare, in the capital to attend the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes forum being held this weekend. The slogan, ‘for our dead, not a minute of silence, only a lifetime of struggle’ was particularly poignant as we stood beside, Dolores, whose two sons were killed by the army last year. Espacio and COS-PACC, the Colombian social organization we’re working with in Casanare, have set up a scheme to protect threatened members of rural communities in the region by ‘twinning’ them with people in Britain, who undertake to follow-up their situation with the authorities and build up personal solidarity links as pen-pals, to remind people that they are not alone and disposable, as the strategists of state terror would like to have them believe. To take part get in touch.... "We are all Colombia!"

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