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Come hear a powerful presentation on “false positives,” innocents murdered by Colombian government forces in the long-running conflict between the State and insurgents.  Our speakers are Flor Hilda Hernández and Pilar Castillo.
Ms. Hernandez’s son, a factory worker, was murdered near Bogotá in 2008, assassinated by government forces who wrongfully claimed he was a guerrilla fighter.  [...]

In a letter sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, US senators, Russell D. Feingold, Patrick J. Leahy and Christopher J. Dodd expressed their concern with the poor results of the US aid to Colombia in the past decade, money that has gone primarily to the Colombian army which is under investigation for the killings [...]

Bela Henriquez is a young human rights activist from the northern part of Colombia. She belongs to the organization Hijos e Hijas por la Memoria y contra la Impunidad (Sons and Daughters for Memory and against Impunity). Hijos e Hijas represents many young people whose parents have been assassinated in the Colombian conflict. [...]

The Indigenous Minga – One Year Later: Colombia’s Popular Movement .
Rafael Coicué is a native Nasa from the indigenous reserve of Corinto, in Colombia’s southwest province of Cauca. A veteran social justice activist and community organizer, he is a member of the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, Colombia, ACIN, one of the leading [...]