Porque Quem Cala Consente

Fazer reféns é, para além de uma violação clara dos Direitos Humanos e da lei internacional, uma das formas mais abjectas de lutar por uma causa. Qualquer que seja a causa.

Que o PCP dê cobro a esse tipo de acções, infelizmente, já não me admira. Como também não me admira que a blogosfera se tome a dianteira na sua rejeição. Rejeição do acto e do apoio tácito. Assim, gostaria de juntar também o meu protesto ao coro que se tem vindo a formar e ao apelo à libertação dos reféns.

Porque os ideais comunistas não deviam estar acima dos ideias humanitários, o PCP devia retratar-se do seu comportamento.

Para além dos sequestros, as FARC matam civis indiscriminadamente. Seguem-se dois exemplos recentes retirados do site da AI.

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Public Statement

AI Index: AMR 23/007/2006 (Public)
News Service No: 051
28 February 2006


Colombia: Amnesty International Condemns Deliberate Killings of Civilians by FARC Guerrillas

The recent spate of killings of civilians is a serious and deliberate breach of international humanitarian law, Amnesty International said today in response to reports of killings of civilians attributed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), in the departments of Caquetá and Huila.

On 27 February, FARC guerrillas allegedly killed at least eight councillors in Rivera Municipality, Huila Department. The killings took place when armed men opened fire on the councillors during a council meeting. This attack follows repeated FARC threats warning councillors in Huila Department and other regions of Colombia to resign or be killed.

The killings followed an alleged FARC attack on a bus in Caquetá Department on 25 February in which at least nine civilians were killed, including two children. This attack took place after the FARC declared a ban on the movement of all vehicles in the region. In the past, FARC guerrillas have burned vehicles and killed civilians who have ignored similar bans on the movement of vehicles.

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Public Statement

AI Index: AMR 23/017/2005 (Public)
News Service No: 145
27 May 2005


Colombia: Targeting of civilians by armed groups is a serious violation of International Humanitarian Law

If it is confirmed that guerrilla forces of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, (FARC), Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, were responsible for the killing of five councillors and the secretary of the town council, this would represent yet another demonstration of blatant disregard for international humanitarian law by this armed group.

According to press reports, on 24 May 2005, FARC guerrillas entered the municipality of Puerto Rico in the south-eastern Colombian department of Caquetá and shot dead José Ausencio Olarte, Willard Villegas, Gerardo Collazos, Silvio Mesa and John Ferney González, town councillors in the department of Caquetá. Germán Rodríguez, a town council secretary was also killed. Survivors say the FARC were responsible.

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In recent years FARC guerrillas have repeatedly threatened to kill councillors and other state representatives in the department of Caquetá and other parts of Colombia. They have been responsible for death threats and numerous killings of state representatives.

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