Colombia: Paramilitaries threaten to kill journalists
Saturday - , February 19, 2011, 1:06
Eduardo Marquez, one of the threatened journalists
Five journalists are once again threatened by the Bloc Colombia Capital de las Aguilas black, which emerged after the advertised these paramilitary disarmament irregular armies right for the government of President Alvaro Uribe.
Corporation Journalists and Social Communicators Santander, CPS said in a statement expressed its rejection of the statement in which they arise "death threats against the President of the Colombian Federation of Journalists, FECOLPER, Eduardo Marquez; Hollman Morris, Daniel Coronell, Marcos Perales Mendoza, and Claudia Julieta Duque, and a dozen human rights organizations.
In the document, the illegal armed group warns that "it was time to kill and kill all people and organizations that pose as human rights defenders (...) who get into what they do not care (...) those located in the offices, in homes where they live, where they study and where they meet. "
The CPS said in a statement sent by its president, Carlos Alberto Bermudez, stresses that continue to defend the principles that seek to journalists in Colombia, who want to have working conditions, socioeconomic and policies that improve the quality of information and of course his family and social environment to which requires a vigorous defense of press freedom, says the communicator.
Many organizations have sympathized with the plight of journalists threatened in the email that has circulated in recent days. Also, they say, will require "the national government and security agencies to provide immediate protection to threatened and colleagues conduct a thorough investigation to try to clarify the facts."
Bermúdez said in the statement of the CPS, said they do not want to "add more deaths or assaults on the shocking figures from FECOLPER 8 days ago under the National Day of the journalist and which show that in 2010 there were 189 assaults, 7 journalists killed, 4 attacks against media media and judicial harassment. " Cesar Baeza
Ricardo Espinosa Ferrer http://Testigoysobreviviente.blogspot.com ferrerespinosa.ricardo @ Gmail.com 
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