<nettime> Marshal law in Bolivia

["Mihajlo Acimovic" <mihajlo5@angelfire.com>]

date:  Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:01:11 EDT 
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Date:  Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:01:38 -0600 
From:  Ethan Jones <edj@postmark.net>
Subject:  [radyouth] Fwd: please react and spread  
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From: DavidMcR@aol.com
Subject: please react and spread
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:19:37 EDT

I am transmitting this appeal from the London office of War Resisters 
International to a number of lists. Fraternally, David McReynolds

<< Dear all:
 
    Please do not delete. Try to react. Some info also in Spanish at the end
 of the e-mail.
    Thanks.
 
    Roberta
 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 06:41:27 -0700
 From: Brian Hill <bhill@igc.org>
 From: Richard K. Moore <richard@cyberjournal.org>
 >From: Charles <quester@eskimo.com>
 >From: Thomas Kruse <tkruse@albatros.cnb.net>
 >
 >Dear Friends:
 >
 >    Just a few hours ago Bolivia was declared under martial law.
 >People are being arrested, the army is occupying the streets, human
 >rights offices are being invaded by government agents, radio stations
 >are being closed by the military and huge sections of the city have
 >had their electrical power cut (I had to leave home to find a
 computer
 >that was still charged to write this).
 >
 >    The situation is grave and we need help to get the story out.
 >Please share the brief article below as far and wide as you can with
 >anyone who will publish or broadcast it.  My own media list is in
 >a computer which I can't access. For the time being I can still be
 >reached at 591-4-290-725.  I will try to send updates as the
 situation
 >allows.  Please do not worry for our safety, my family and I are
 >fine and keeping well away from the violence.  IF YOU RESPOND, PLEASE
 >RESPOND TO THE EMAIL BELOW, NOT THE RETURN ON THIS ONE.
 >
 >    Jim Shultz
 >    The Democracy Center
 >    Jshultz@democracyctr.org
 >
 >BOLIVIA UNDER MARTIAL LAW
 >
 >    As of 10 am Saturday morning Bolivia was declared under martial
 >law by President Hugo Banzer.  The drastic move comes at the end of a
 >week of protests, general strikes, and transportation blockages that
 >have left major areas of the country at a virtual standstill.  It
 also
 >follows, by just hours, the surprise announcement by state officials
 >yesterday afternoon that the government would concede to the
 protests'
 >main demands, to break a widely-despised contract under which the
 city
 >of Cochabamba's public water system was sold off to foreign investors
 >last year.  The concession was quickly reversed by the national
 >government, and the local governor resigned, explaining that he
 didn't
 >want to take responsibility for bloodshed that might result.
 >
 >Banzer, who ruled Bolivia as a dictator from 1971-78, has taken an
 >action that suspends almost all civil rights, disallows gatherings
 >of more than four people and puts severe limits on freedom of the
 >press.  One after another, local radio stations have been taken
 >over by military forces or forced off the air.  Reporters have been
 >arrested The neighborhood where most of the city's broadcast antennas
 >are located had its power shut off at approximately noon local time.
 >Through the night police searched homes for members of the widely-
 >backed water protests, arresting as many as twenty.  The local
 >police chief has been instated by the President as governor of the
 >state.  Blockades erected by farmers in rural areas continue across
 >the country, cutting off some cities from food and transportation.
 >Large crowds of angry residents, many armed with sticks and rocks are
 >massing on the city's center where confrontations with military and
 >police are escalating.
 >
 >Tom Kruse
 >Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
 >TelFax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
 >TelCel: 017-22253
 >Email: tkruse@albatros.cnb.net
 >
 >=====================================================================
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 >Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 08:47:07 -0400
 >To: ensemble@nildram.co.uk
 >From: fran~don <donchism@ican.net>
 >Subject: Re: Stopping Colombian Minister destroying Native peoples'

 >  habitat
 >Cc: rkmoore@iol.ie
 >Mime-Version: 1.0
 >
 >---<fwd>----
 >
 >The (Colombian) Minister of the Emvironment, JUAN MAYR, is refusing
 >to recognise the rights of the Embera Katio Indians who have walked
 >800 kms to talk to him , and have set up camp outside his office in
 >Bogota.  The Goverment, supported by the paramilitaries, (equivalent
 >to theBlack and Tans) began flooding their tribal lands without
 >relocating the Indians, who demand that;
 >   1 the Government should urgently resolve the ecological problems
 >cause by the Sinu River, which is resulting in famine downstream of
 >the dam
 >
 >   2. their rights be respected as guaranteed in International Law
 >
 >Amnesty International issued an urgent action on 9 March 2000 for
 >fear for the safety/possible disappearnce of JAIRO BEDOYA HOYOS, an
 >Indigenous Rights activist who was working for the security and
 >protection of the Emberra Tribe, which exposed him to attack from
 >unknown (as yet) armed forces
 >
 >Not only is this Minister supporting oil exploration on the ancestral
 >lands of the famous UWA  tribe, (NE Colombia),  he has openly granted
 >approval for goldmining in the river Caqueta in the South and the use
 >of MERCURY  in the process is poisoning all the river life as it runs
 >into the Amazon system
 >
 >PATRICK VON HILDREBRAND, an environmentalist,  (brother of Martin,
 >winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for his work  with  Indians in
 >the Amazon) has been working for years in the pristine reserve in
 >Lower Caqueta. At this moment, his life is in danger for speaking out
 >on this issue.
 >
 >We are ALL  connected and this further pollution of `the Lungs of the
 >World'   is an outrage in this supposed enlightened age of the 3rd
 >Millennium.
 >
 >Urgent international action is needed against the actions of this
 >Minister of the Environment. He has two more years to serve and will
 >no doubt wreak more destruction.  Protesters in Colombia are
 >silenced or killed.
 >
 >Please do what you can to highlight this grave situation by writing
 >to your M.P.s, Senators, M.E.P.s, Cabinet Ministers etc.,  the media
 >and any one of the following:
 >
 >1. Dr. JUAN MAYR, Ministro del Medio Ambiente, Calle 37  No 7 
- 76
 >Bogota, Colombia     juanmyr-m@hotmail.com
 >
 >2.   Dr. Humberto Martinez,  Ministro del Interior, Carrera 8,
 >no 8 - 09,  Bogota, Colombia
 >
 >3.  The Rt. Hon.  Robin Cook, MP, PC., Foreign Secretary,  House of
 >Commons, London SW1.
 >
 >4. Margot Wallstrom,  D.G. for the Environment, 200 Rue de la
 >Loi, B-1049, Brussels Belgium.  mwallstrom@cec.eu.int
 >
 >
 >@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
 >
 >P.S.  The Atlanta Foundation produces a monthly newletter about
 >trying to `green' Colombia and it is well worth joininh their mailing
 >list via
 >Mary Kelly, Atlantis House, Burtonport, Co Donegal, Eire
 >afan69@hotmail.com
 >---
 >E-Mail: ensemble@nildram.co.uk
 >The National Music Trust Project
 >
 >
 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 >    Don Chisholm     613 476 1700 fax 476 6331
 >http://home.ican.net/~donchism/dchome.html
 >GPC http://www.enviroweb.org/gaia-pc/
 >  *    "Our ignorance is not so vast as,   *
 >        our failure to use what we know."
 >                    M.K. Hubert
 >"The fact that this has not happened before says
 > nothing about what's needed now for survival."
 >                  R. Theobald 99
 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 
 
 En castellano
 
 
 Equipo Nizkor
 Derechos Human Rights
 Serpaj Europa
 Solidaridad Urgente
 10abr00
 
 CONTINZA EL ESTADO DE SITIO Y LAS MEDIDAS REPRESIVAS DE CONTROL
 POLMTICO-SOCIAL.
 
 El estado de sitio continza vigente. Se estan dando enfrentamientos
 violentos al
 Norte de la Paz, tras los cuales Monseqor Jeszs Juarez declars que cuatro
 personas habman muerto. En Cochabamba se ha anunciado que Aguas del Tunari
ha
 decidido dejar Bolivia, pero este anuncio no ha encontrado credulidad entre 
la
 poblacisn que ha salido a las calles y los ciudadanos que han venido
 bloqueando
 las principales arterias de entrada y salida a la ciudad.
 
 Los miembros de la Coordinadora, coalicisn de organizaciones civiles que
 lidera
 las acciones, se ven abocados a desarrollar su trabajo en la
 clandestinidad. Han
 anunciado que su resistencia continuara hasta que reciban una confirmacisn
 firme
 del acuerdo alcanzado con Aguas del Tunari. El Gobierno de la nacisn dice
que
 enviara una delegacisn a Cochabamba maqana por la maqana (10abr00). Entre
 tanto,
 la APDHC ha sido informada de que tropas militares se encaminan a Cochabamba
 procedentes de lugares tan remotos como Beni (al Noreste del pams)
 
 En este momento, las preocupaciones principales de la APDHC son las
 siguientes:
 
 1) Que las 17 personas arrestadas en la madrugada del sabado sean liberadas
y
 devueltas a sus lugares de origen. Estas personas estan confinadas en una 
zona
 aislada del pams, San Joaquin.
 
 MIEMBROS DE LA COORDINADORA DETENIDOS Y TRASLADADOS A SAN JOAQUIN:
 
 1. Gabriel Herbas, Presidente del Foro Cochabambino del Medio Ambiente; 2.
 Walter Antezana, Ejecutivo de la Central Obrera Departamental; 3. Emilio
 Sejas,
 Ejecutivo de Transporte Pesado de Cochabamba
 
 OTROS LMDERES DETENIDOS Y TRASLADADOS A SAN JOAQUIN:
 
 1. Ascencio Picha, Dirigente del Tropico de Cochabamba; 2. Angel Claure; 3.
 Sacarias Pereira; 4. Victor Cossio; 5. Francisco Partis; 6. Santiago
 Gareca; 7.
 Victor Nina; 8. Enriqueta Imaca; 9. Emilio Rodriquez; 10. Filomeno Rivera; 
11.
 Felipe Flores; 12. Osvaldo Toco; 13. Juan Yapura; 14. Pedro Soto;
 
 2) Que el estado de sitio sea levantado y que a los lmderes que se han visto
 abocados a la clandestinidad les sea permitido volver a sus hogares y con
sus
 familias. Nos preocupa en concreto el peligro que corre su seguridad
 personal en
 este momento. Hemos visto coches de policma no identificados circulando por 
la
 ciudad.
 
 Estimamos firmemente que los lmderes siguientes estan en peligro y pedimos
 a las
 organizaciones internacionales de derechos humanos que envmen cartas a las
 direcciones reseqadas mas abajo. En el mensaje ha de especificar que Vd.
 esta al
 corriente de la persecucisn de lmderes en Cochabamba y esta siguiendo de 
cerca
 la situacisn:
 
 Oscar Olivera, Ejecutivo de Federacion de Fabriles; Gonzalo Maldonado,
 Diputado
 National; Evo Morales, Diputado National; Samuel Soria, Miembro de Colegio
de
 Economistas de Cbba.; Omar Fernandez, Dirigente Campesino de Regantes;
Moises
 Torrez, Ejecutivo de la Federacion de Campesinos; Carmen Paredo, Dirigente
de
 Regantes; Jose Luis Nunez, Secretario de la Central Obrera Departamental;
 Guillermo Lora, Ejecutive de la Federacion de Maestros
 
 TAMBIIN LOS MIEMBROS DE LA APDHC ESTAN EN PELIGRO.
 APDHC, 9 de abril de 2000
 
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 POR FAVOR DIRIGIR LAS COMUNICACIONES A:
 
 Secretaria Privada de la Presidencia de la Repzblica
 Patricia Banzer de Valle
 Palacio de Gobierno, La Paz
 Tfno.: +591-2-359779
 Fax: +591-2-391216
 
 Sr. Walter Guiteras
 Ministro de Gobierno
 Av. Arce No. 2409 esq. Belisario Salinas, La Paz,
 Tfno.: +591-2-371334 s 440466
 
 Sr. Jorge Crespo Velasco
 Ministro de Defensa Nacional
 Av. 20 de Octubre esq. P.Salazar P. 6
 Tfono: +591-2-431183 s 431364
 Fax: +591-2-433159
 
 Sr. Juan Antonio Chahmn Lupo
 Ministro de Justicia y Derechos Humanos
 Av. 16 de Julio No. 1769, El Prado
 Tfno.: +591-2-373620 s 361037
 Fax: +591-2-392982
 
 Sra. Ana Marma de Campero
 Defensorma del Pueblo de Bolivia
 La Paz
 Tfno./Fax: +591-0811-3538
 Mailto: delpueblo@defensor-bo.net (Oficina Central La Paz)
 Mailto: defcb@comteco.entelnet.bo (Cochabamba)
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 PARA MAYOR INFORMACISN:
 Asamblea Permanente de los Derechos Humanos de Cochabamba - APDHC
 Tfno./Fax: +591 42 52835 s +591 42 91533, Mailto: apdhc@albatros.cnb.net 
o
 Mailto: lee@albatros.cnb.net s Mailto: rebci@comteco.entelnet.bo
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 MAS INFORMACISN SOBRE DERECHOS HUMANOS:
 - Derechos Humanos en Bolivia (Informes de organismos de derechos humanos,
 resoluciones de organismos internacionales, etc.)
 
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