Report of the violent eviction by the riot police in Mojarras
One (1) peasant murdered, twenty-one (21) injured of which nine (9) are injured seriously, two (2) arbitrary arrest, alleged massacre of four (4) peasants among which there is probably a girl, attacks on civil property, looting, obstruction of rescue service, use of shields, disproportionate use of conventional weapons, use of unconventional weapons, environmental attacks, attacks against humanitarian mission.
Friday, September 6 th, 2013
To the national and international community
The network of “Derechos Humanos del Suroccidente Colombiano “Francisco Isaías Cifuentes””
“Comisión De Derechos Humanos del Movimiento Político Y Social Marcha Patriótica”.
Special report
It is the result of indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks in which the Military forces, the national Police forces and civil persons made use of unconventional artifacts ( manipulated ammunition, “papas” bombs with splinters), conventional arms (flamethrower, burst fire from conventional armory, splinter grenades,
MGL grenades, mortar grenades, stun grenades, teargas- launched from the ground and the air) against the gathering of humble peasants that participated in the NATIONA DAY OF PROTEST AND INDEFINITE
STRIKES located in the town center of Mojarras in the municipality of Mercaderes in the department of Cauca.
Some of the affected Persons are members of La Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Municipio del Patía (AGROPATIA), La Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Municipio de Balboa, Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Municipio de Argelia, La Asociación de Trabajadores Campesino de Nariño, Filiales de FENSUAGRO – CUT, de la Coordinadora Estudiantil “Tuto González”, la Red de Derechos
Humanos del Suroccidente Colombiano “Francisco Isaías Cifuentes”, El Proceso de Unidad Popular del Suroccidente Colombiano – PUPSOC, del Movimiento Político y Social Marcha Patriótica in the Departament of Cauca and Nariño and of the Mesa Agropecuaria y Popular de Interlocución y Acuerdo – MIA.
Recent Anouncments:
FACTS:
In the southwest of Colombia, Departement Cauca,Thursday, September 5
Municipality of Mercaderes, in the streets of Mojarras, the place where 10.000 peasants gathered to participate in the NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AND INDEFINITE STRIKES. th, 2013
Between 2:00 and 2:40 in the morning when most of the peasants were still asleep, two war-planes circled the area and launched 10 Bengali fires. Later that night, armed military helicopters landed close to the occupied road and to drop of soldiers nearby.
At around 6:30 in the morning, a group of soldiers of the Colombian military that was located around the place released a few rounds of ammunition into the air.
At around 7:10 in the morning, members of the army, agents of the highway Police, members of the AntiRiot-Squad – ESMAD (Escuadrón Móvil Anti Disturbios) initiated an intense indiscriminate attack in which
they launched teargas projectiles (From the air (helicopter) and from the ground), burst fire from conventional armory, splinter grenades, MGL grenades, mortar grenades, stun grenades, Flamethrower, buck shots, rubber bullets, manipulated projectiles, and “papas” bombs on the civilians and their goods.
A group of soldiers and civil people were located in the houses of the village people from where they realized further gunshots against the gathered peasants.
An official from a high position of the army, swarthy and thick, gave orders to his command when to open fire and which targets should be aimed.
Several commercial establishments and civil properties received impacts of gunfire in their facades. As soon as the combined state and parastate forces reached the central camp of the peasants they started to burn the belongings of the peasants and extensively cultivated pastures.
Likewise the peasants ALVEIRO MENESES and WILLIAM GUERRERO were detained arbitrarily by agents of the Police.
As a result of this insane attack the following peasants were injured: FLEIDER ORTEGA GALINDEZ, HOOVER CRUZ BURBANO, WILSON IDROBO, HAMILTON ESNEIDER SOLARTE MOSQUERA, VICTOR
ALFONSO ORTEGA, JUSTINIANO DE LA ENCARNACIÓN ENRRIQUEZ, JENNIS ANTONIO DE LA ENCARNACIÓN ZUÑIGA, MILTON CAMILO AVIRAMA GONZALEZ, JONAIVER BENITES QUINAYAS, YEFER ARNOLDO BOLAÑOS SAMBONI, FERNANDO HURTADO MENA, OVER ADELMO HOYOS GÓMEZ, JHON JAMES CALVACHE, JAIME DIAZ, CAMILO AVIRAMA, JUSTINIANO ENRRIQUEZ, JONER MAYUNGA, , RAFAÉL DÍAZ, FABIAN MARTINEZ, YONNY RODALLEGA y CARLOS ROJAS
Although official authorities of the department and the public ministry were immediately informed about the state of the injured persons, two hours passed unit the first ambulances were able to reach the location from where they initially proceeded to move the group of state agents allegedly wounded during the confrontation.
Close to 10:00 in the morning DEIVIN JESUS HURTADO ERAZO, member of la Red de Derechos Humanos “Francisco Isaías Cifuentes” receives a call from one of the army commanders located in the area with the aim of finding a way to suspend the confrontations by establishing negotiations or between officials of the combined forces and him as well as two spokesman that are allowed to accompany him.
When the citizen DEIVIN JESUS HURTADO ERAZO pressed to realize the announced humanitarian mediation he was hit by splinters that seriously injured him.
Despite the excessive repression of which they were object, the peasants tried to pick up their hurt fellows and guide them to a save place, located on the riverbank of the Río Patía next to the bridge of Puerto Nuevo of the municipality Leiva.
At around 2:30 pm a humanaitarian comission established by the Defensoría Regional del Pueblo, La Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos in Colombia and delegates of the Red de Derechos Humanos del Suroccidente Colombiano “Francisco Isaías Cifuentes” and the comisiones de Derechos Humanos del Movimiento Político y Social Marcha Patriótica en el Departamento del Cauca y de la Mesa Agropecuaria y Popular de Interlocución y Acuerdo – MIA arrive at the Bridge of Puerto Nuevo of the municipality Leiva.
As part of the humanitarian mission on the basis of field observations and testimonies of peasants, of officials of the Defensoría del pueblo present in the area during the occurring repressions, of Personeros Municipales (also state officials) in the zone, of members of medical missions and Journalists , the following facts were
Noted:
• That the group of militaries has installed a military checkpoint on the street of La Barca in the municipality Balboa (the only possible exit for the gathered Peasants)
• The disproportionate repression of which the group of Peasants were object.
• The relationship of six police men for every four soldiers and armed civil persons in the development of the crackdown
• The state of health of some of the injured
• The place of entry used by the military forces was located at the bridge Marañón. Just the same place on which a humanitarian commission conducted a mediation mission that achieved the release of six soldiers and one policemen that infiltrated the Peasant Strike, in exchange for access to medical service during the strike and the permission for engineers of the INVIAS to estimate the state of the bridge.
• Some of the present people stated that in the zone as a result of the military mission a massacre has been committed in which four persons have been murdered, under them a child of 6 years.
• Despite the difficulties of the entry of the medical mission due to the intense repression executed by the combined forces of the Colombian state, finally a group of peasants was broad to the hospitals of the city Popayán:
With respect to their medical conditions the following people had to be treated:
1. FLEIDER ORTEGA GALINDEZ, From the Municipility El Bordo Patía, Vereda La Mesa, injured by gunfire, penetrating the abdomen
2. HOOVER CRUZ BURBANO, From the Municipility El Bordo Patía, Vereda Santa Cruz, Blunt force injury in thoracoabdominal región
3. WILSON IDROBO, From the Municipility El Bordo Patía, Vereda Villa Nueva. Face trauma.
4. HAMILTON ESNEIDER SOLARTE MOSQUERA, From the Municipility El Bordo Patía, Vereda El Crucero.
Traumatic brain injury
5. VICTOR ALFONSO ORTEGA, From the Municipility, traumatic brain injury
6. DEIVIN JESUS HURTADO ERAZO Hematome and splinter on the left side of the neck, splinter in the right leg, amputation of the 4th finger of the left hand.
Equally in the Hospital Susana López de Valencia, the following people were treated:
1. JUSTINIANO DE LA ENCARNACIÓN ENRRIQUEZ, From the Municipility, Vereda El Altillo Ablation of soft tissue, loss of Finger 1,2,3
2. JENNIS ANTONIO DE LA ENCARNACIÓN ZUÑIGA, From the Municipility El Bordo Patía, Vereda Brisas. Hand trauma (right) with the loss of finger 1,2
3. MILTON CAMILO AVIRAMA GONZALEZ, From the Municipility El Bordo Patía, Vereda Zarzal. Hand trauma (right) with the loss of finger 2, multiple injuries on the hand
4. JONAIVER BENITES QUINAYAS, From the Municipility Balboa. Fracture of shinbone and splintbone and fracture of the right ulna
And in the Hospital Universitario San José, the following people had to be treated:
1. YEFER ARNOLDO BOLAÑOS SAMBONI, From the Municipility Balboa. Injured Thoraco abdominal.
2. FERNANDO HURTADO MENA Similarly affected were OVER ADELMO HOYOS GÓMEZ, From the municipality El Bordo Patía. Injured
Thoraco abdominal, muscle injuries on the left and right leg JHON JAMES CALVACHE (injured on the hand) JAIME DIAZ (injured leg), CAMILO AVIRAMA (injured hand), JUSTINIANO ENRRIQUEZ (injured hand, two fingers affected), JONER MAYUNGA, (injuries on hand leg and left armpit), RAFAÉL DÍAZ, FABIAN
MARTINEZ, YONNY RODALLEGA and CARLOS ROJAS
At about 11:00 pm in the Clínica la Estancia de Popayán the death of VICTOR ALFONSO ORTEGA from the municipality Leiva caused by a serious brain injury was confirmed. He didn’t survive the severe injuries the
Military and Police forces had inflicted him.
Against the ongoing repression of the Army and Police the Peasants resist their fear and remain in their positions
Acountable:
Pointing out that DEIVIN JESUS HURTADO ERAZO in actuality is a student of the University of Cauca in the subjects History and Law, he is a member of the Coordinadora Estudiantil “Tuto González”, la Red de Derechos Humanos del Suroccidente Colombiano “Francisco Isaías Cifuentes”, el Proceso de Unidad
Popular del Suroccidente Colombiano – PUPSOC, of the Movimiento Político y Social Marcha Patriótica in the Departament Cauca and of the Mesa Agropecuaria y Popular de Interlocución y Acuerdo – MIA.
FLEIDER ORTEGA GALINDEZ, HOOVER CRUZ BURBANO, WILSON IDROBO, HAMILTON ESNEIDER SOLARTE MOSQUERA, JUSTINIANO DE LA ENCARNACIÓN ENRRIQUEZ, JENNIS ANTONIO DE LA ENCARNACIÓN ZUÑIGA, MILTON CAMILO AVIRAMA GONZALEZ, OVER ADELMO HOYOS GÓMEZ, in actuality are members of the Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Municipio del Patía (AGROPATIA), Filial de FENSUAGRO – CUT, el Proceso de Unidad Popular del Suroccidente Colombiano – PUPSOC, of the Movimiento Político y Social Marcha Patriótica in the Departament Cauca and of the Mesa Agropecuaria y Popular de Interlocución y Acuerdo – MIA.
JONAIVER BENITES QUINAYAS, YEFER ARNOLDO BOLAÑOS SAMBONI, in actuality are members of the Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Municipio de Balboa, el Proceso de Unidad Popular del Suroccidente Colombiano – PUPSOC, del Movimiento Político y Social Marcha Patriótica in the Departament Cauca and of the Mesa Agropecuaria y Popular de Interlocución y Acuerdo – MIA.
VICTOR ALFONSO ORTEGA, was a member of the Asociación de Trabajadores Campesino de Nariño, Filiales de FENSUAGRO – CUT, el Proceso de Unidad Popular del Suroccidente Colombiano – PUPSOC, del Movimiento Político y Social Marcha Patriótica in the department Cauca and of the Mesa Agropecuaria y Popular de Interlocución y Acuerdo – MIA.
The Colombian government headed by Mr. JUAN MANUEL SANTOS CALDERON, the governor of the department Cauca TEMISTOCLES ORTEGA NARVÁEZ and specially the Coronel JULIO PINZÓN ARÉVALO commander of the twenty-ninth brigade of the National Army and the lieutenant RICARDO AUGUSTO ALARCÓN CAMPOS commander of the Police of Cauca for the violations of the international law and human rights and the violations of the international humanitarian law committed by members of the regular and irregular forces of the Colombian state.
We demand:
State responsibility over the principle rights of live, the personal security, the physical and psychological integrity, the personal privacy within the boundaries of family and home, the honor and liberal mobility of participants of the NATIONAL STRIKE, that see themselves inhibited by the arbitrary actions of the regular and irregular forces of the Colombian state.
FROM THE COLOMBIAN STATE
• The immediate compliance of recommendations, repeatingly formulated by the Commission for Human Rights of the UN and other international bodies
• Advance the necessary steps to guarantee over the principle rights of live, the personal security, the physical and psychological integrity, the personal privacy within the boundaries of family and home, the honor and liberal mobility of participants of the NATIONAL STRIKE, that see themselves inhibited by the arbitrary actions of the regular and irregular forces of the Colombian state
• Develop the legal actions that are needed to determine the collective and individual responsibilities in the case of violations of the international law and human rights and the violations of the international humanitarian law, pointed out in this special report
FROM THE DEFENSORÍA DEL PUEBLO
• Fulfill its institutional role to ensure the security and respect for the constitutional rights to life, the personal security, the physical and psychological integrity, the personal privacy within the boundaries of family and home, the honor and liberal mobility of participants of the NATIONAL STRIKE, that see themselves inhibited by the arbitrary actions of the regular and irregular forces of the Colombian state.
WE REQUEST
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER OF HUMAN RIGHTS
• As part of the fulfillment of his mandate, to undertake all possible efforts so that the starring of the Colombian state adjust to internal and external standards and commits to respect them and to initiate investigations that may be required by the ignorance of them.
WE URGE TO HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND POPULAR ORGANIZATIONS TO REMAIN VIGILANT AND ALERTED TO THE CRITICAL HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION THE DEPARTMENT OF CAUCA IS FACING
RED DE DERECHOS HUMANOS DEL SUROCCIDENTE COLOMBIANO “FRANCISCO ISAÍAS CIFUENTES”COMISIÓN DE DERECHOS HUMANOS DEL MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO Y SOCIAL MARCHA PATRIÓTICA.
5 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2013
Institutions that should be adressed
JUAN MANUEL SANTOS CALDERÓN
Presidente de la República
Carrera 8 No. 7 -26 Palacio de Nariño Bogotá
Fax. 5662071
Fax: (+57 1) 566.20.71
E-mail: comunicacionesvp@presidencia.gov.co
ANGELINO GARZÓN
Vicepresidente de la República
Carrera 8 No.7-57 Bogotá D.C.
JUAN CARLOS PINZÓN
Ministro de la Defensa
Avenida El dorado con carrera 52 CAN Bogotá D.C.
siden@mindefensa.gov.co, infprotocol@mindefensa.gov.co, mdn@cable.net.co
FERNANDO CARRILLO.
Ministro del Interior
Carrera 9a. No. 14-10 – Bogotá, D.C.
e-mail: german.vargas@mij.gov.co, ministro@minjusticia.gov.co
PBX (+57) 444 31 00 Ext. 1820
RUTH STELLA CORREA PALACIO
Ministro de Justicia y del Derecho
LUIS EDUARDO MONTEALEGRE
Fiscal General de la Nación
Diagonal 22B No. 52-01 – Bogotá, D.C.
Teléfonos: 570 20 00 – 414 90 00
contacto@fiscalia.gov.co, denuncie@fiscalia.gov.co
JORGE ARMANDO OTALORA
Defensor del Pueblo
Calle 55 # 10-32, Bogotá
Fax: (+571) 640.04.91
E-mail: secretaria_privada@hotmail.com, agenda@agenda.gov.co,
defensoria@defensoria.org.co
ALEJANDRO ORDOÑEZ MALDONADO
Procurador General de la Nación
Cra. 5 No.15 – 80F Bogotá D.C.
anticorrupción@presidencia.gov.co, reygon@procuraduría.gov.co
OFICINA EN COLOMBIA DEL ALTO COMISIONADO DE
NACIONES UNIDAS PARA LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS
Calle 114 No. 9-45 Torre B Oficina 1101
Edificio Teleport Bussines Park – Bogotá, Colombia
Teléfono PBX (57-1) 629 3636 (57-1) 629 3636 Fax (57-1) 629 3637
E-mail: oacnudh@hchr.org.co
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