(IPYS/IFEX) – On the evening of 4 August 2006, the weekly newspaper “Voz”, the Medios Para la Paz (Media for Peace) media group and 37 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were declared “military targets” by a paramilitary group known as “Autodefensas Colombia Libre Mesa Nacional Unificada de Mando Bloques Sur, Caribe, Llanos, Centro, Capital, Oriente, Nueva Generación, […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On the evening of 4 August 2006, the weekly newspaper “Voz”, the Medios Para la Paz (Media for Peace) media group and 37 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were declared “military targets” by a paramilitary group known as “Autodefensas Colombia Libre Mesa Nacional Unificada de Mando Bloques Sur, Caribe, Llanos, Centro, Capital, Oriente, Nueva Generación, Pacífico” , in a communiqué sent to the e-mail addresses of these institutions. The nature and aims of the group are unknown.
According to the communiqué, the group will attack the weekly and the NGOs because it believes they collaborate with guerrilla forces in Colombia. This is the second of such threats made in 2006. The first was sent to several members of the media via e-mail from an organization calling itself “Frente Democrático Colombia Libre” (see IFEX alerts of 19, 15 and 13 June 2006).
The weekly and the other targeted organisations reported the threat to authorities.
