Urgent Action: End Threats against Peace Communities

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What you should do

Fax or write letters of protest to the following individuals. Firmly remind them of their obligations to protect the members of the peace communities, who are trying to make a place without violence.

Madeleine Albright
Secretary of State
+1 (202) 647 1533

William Cohen
Department of Defense
+1 (703) 697 9080

Ambassador Curtis Kamman
+57 1 315 2163

Colonel Diego Gutierrez
XVII Brigade of the National Army Telephone:
  +57 4 823 6844
  +57 4 823-9527
  +57 4 823-9526

General Herrera Verbel
IV Brigade of the National Army
Telephone:
  +57 4 230-4411
  +57 4 230-5127

Gustavo Bell Lemus
Vice-President of the Republic
Fax:
  +57 1 286-3589

Andres Pastrana
President of the Republic
Fax:
  +57 1-5616580

Jaime Bernal Cuellar
Prosecutor General of the Nation
Fax:
  +57 1-2827614

Alfonso Gomez Mendez
Attorney General of the Nation
Fax:
  +57 1-5700200

Fernando Castro Caycedo
Defender of the People
Fax:
  +57 1-345-2300

Brigadier General Gabriel Eduardo Contreras
I Division of the National Army
Telephone:
  +57 5 423-1802
  +57 5 421-0996
  +57 5 421-0482

The Colombia Support Network calls upon the Pastrana Administration to take all necessary measures to end threats against the Peace Communities of San Jose de Apartado, San Francisco de Asis, and the Cacarica Valley refugee community. The military and police should fulfill their constitutional role of protecting the lives of citizens, such as the residents of these communities, from all threatening forces.

We call upon the military and police commanders to end collaboration with the paramilitaries and to defuse and prevent armed attacks against the threatened communities.

We also urge the Colombian government to provide the economic resources that it is legally required to supply to refugees in the mentioned communities and elsewhere throughout Colombia.