SINISTER DEATH THREAT AGAINST CONGRESSMAN
ALEXANDER LOPEZ MAYA
NOMADESC and the below-signed members of
the campaign "Prohibido Olvidar" / Never Forget denounce:
The grave written death threats against Congress Representantive
ALEXANDER LOPEZ MAYA a nd we make an urgent call to the national
and international community to demand that the Colombian government
guarantees to safeguard the physical integrity of Doctor LÓPEZ
and his family.
Death threats are continuing against those
individuals cited in the secret lists of the recently revealed "Operation
Dragon", which is in the middle of investigation by the national
Attorney General. This is one of the more serious cases:
THE EVENTS
1.On 25 October an envelope
arrived with a type written address directed to "CHAMBER OF
REPRESENTATIVES Plaza de Bolívar BOGOTA". In the place
of the sender was put "SINTRA EMCALI Calle 18 No. 6-54 B. San
Nicolás. CALI received 25 October 2004 at 2:20 p.m.".
This envelope was apparently handed in to the post room in Congress
and not sent by any postal service.
2.- On 27 October 2004 RAYMUNDO MENDEZ BECHARA,
Private Secretary of the Congress Presidency directed the following
communication to Dr ALEXANDER LOPEZ MAYA, with a copy to Colonel
JERSON JAIR CASTELLANOS SOTO, Security Liaison Official for Congress:
"Respected doctor: Following instructions of the Lady President
of the Chamber of Representatives, Doctor Zulema Jattin Corrales,
I forward an anonymous letter addressed to you".
3.- The white envelope with red and blue
edging (not often seen having fallen into disuse some years ago)
contained a sinister manuscript addressed to Dr. ALEXANDER LOPEZ
MAYA that read:
"ALEXANDER LOPEZ MAYA rotten gonorrhea – you are dead
- you already smell of formaldehyde, son of a bitch, mother fucker
- we are going to kill you for all the misdeeds and wicked things
that you have committed against the people of Cali - but before
that we are going to torture you- we will pull out your eyes –
we will cut off your tongue – we will slit off your ears –
we will tear out your nails – we will put a bullet in each
of your knees - we will crush your balls with a hammer – we
will put a red hot steel bar up your backside and we will open your
stomach, we will fill you with stones and throw you in the [river]
– we hate you, son of a bitch you are pure shit You already
know who we are" The text ends with a skull.
4.- It is important to point out that doctor
ALEXANDER LOPEZ MAYA, was in Quito Ecuador carrying out his parliamentary
activities and he only knew of this document on 2 November.
The sinister manuscript arrived last Wednesday
to the congress presidency addressed to ALEXANDER LOPEZ.
RECENT BACKGROUND:
1. - On Thursday 21 October 2004, at around
1:25 p.m. señora TANIA VALENCIA was travelling towards SINTRAEMCALI
in her vehicle, when at the traffic lights at 8th Avenue by 25th
Street an armed individual got into the vehicle and pointed a firearm,
saying in threatening tone: "continue towards Jamundí".
Señora Valencia was afraid and thinking that he was going
to rob the case she said "if you want the car, take it but
don’t do anything to me". The individual repied that
we don’t want the car we want you and ordered her to stop
at the next corner where two more individuals bordered the vehicle.
2. - All the men were armed. They shouted
"Bitch, Tramp, Slut, trade unionist now you’ll see what
is good for you." When they arrived at Jamundí they
made her get out of the vehicle, she managed to notice a sign which
said Potrerito. One of the men hit her in the face and made her
lower her head and forced her to walk towards a house that was very
dark and there one of the individuals started to interrogate here
while they struck her cheeks. They demanded what were the activities
of ALEXANDER LOPEZ, CARLOS MARMOLEJO and CARLOS OCAMPO, what projects
were they involved in? Who are the ‘untouchables’ [lit.
ones with arms] – are you one of them? What relation so they
have with the subversion? " She stated that she did not know
anything of this and that she had been working at for 15 years and
now she is retired. She was a trade union representative but that
is all she knew.
3. - During the interrogation one of the
individuals was saying that CARLOS MARMOLEJO and CARLOS OCAMPO had
to get it in the head because they were obstructing the process.
And that if she did not collaborated it would go very bad for her.
Meanwhile the others were saying "let’s mount her, let’s
mount her, so that she comes out in photos and in the videos and
besides she isn’t collaborating"
4. - Later on another of them said we are
going to let her live but only so that she takes a message to ALEXANDER
LOPEZ. "Tell him to withdraw from the process, if not we’ll
give it to him in the head". "Tell ALEXANDER LOPEZ MAYA
that the processes and projects that he has going have to be stopped
and if not he is going to, to realise that very soon that we are
going finish his group off". Then they pushed her very hard,
and she nearly fell backwards. "And tell him", they said,
"that we will get rid of you all, starting with you Bitch".
5. - It was already night when they let
her go and she did not know the time or how to drive her vehicle
back to Cali. Then she seemed to enter into shock, she went to a
house that was not hers and she was afraid that they were following
her. When she asked the time it was already 12: 15 at night.
PREVIOUS BACKGROUND
1. On Monday 23 August 2004 Representative
ALEXANDER LOPEZ MAYA, was alerted to a plan that was being hatched
to assassinate various political, trade union and human rights leaders.
The plan was prepared by active and retired military officers that
were operating in the cities of Cali, Medellín, Barranquilla,
Ibagué and Bogotá. According to the information received
the first on the list would be ALEXANDER LOPEZ, BERENICE CELEYTA
and LUIS HERNANDEZ, with whom they were going to start from 23 August
de 2004.
2. On 25 August the Attorney General and
the Technical Investigation Unit carried out raids in Cali and Medellín.
In the raid of apartment 301, El Castillo building, located at No
8N-37, 4th Avenue North in Cali the investigators found a portfolio
containing 21 files, with "SECRET" inscribed on them.
A report had been remitted on 24 May 2003 from Calí by the
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CENTRE OF THE No 3 REGIONAL ARMY to the Colonel
Director of Central Intelligence in Bogotá. The document
was internally numbered under the reference: 093 CIME-RIME3-INT4-252.
3. In all the documents found in the Calí
raid- including the Army documents – there is an emphasis
on the political activities of members of the Polo Democrático,
the Social and Political Front [Frente Social y Político]
and Alternativa Democrática. In these documents the name
of Dr. ALEXANDER LOPEZ MAYA is repeatedly mentioned. (See examples
of these documents and more information on Operation Dragon at web
page : http://www.colombia.indymedia.org
)
Asociación Para la Investigación
y Acción Social NOMADESC,
Sindicato de Trabajadores de Las Empresas Municipales de Cali SINTRAEMCALI,
Sindicato De Los Trabajadores Universitarios De Colombia SINTRAUNICOL,
La Unión Sindical Obrera USO, Central Unitaria de Trabajadores
CUT - VALLE DEL CAUCA,
Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Minería en Colombia SINTRAMINERCOL,
Movimiento Estudiantil del Valle del Cauca y Nariño, Fundación
Comité De Solidaridad Con Presos Políticos,
Seccional Valle del Cauca, Sintramunicipio Bugalagrande,
Sintramunicipio Yumbo, Sintramunicipio Dagua, Sintrametal Yumbo,
Organizaciones Barriales Juveniles Artísticas y Populares
de Santiago de Cali
Contacts in Colombia:
Nomadesc E-mail Nomadesc@latinmail.com
Campaña Prohibido Olvidar E-mail dhprohibidolvidar@yahoo.com
Contact in the UK:
Colombia Solidarity Campaign E-mail colombia_sc@hotmail.com
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Oficina en Colombia del Alto Comisionado
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Noviembre 4 de 2004
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