Paramilitaries Use Aircraft
El conflicto entre el Pueblo Embera Katío y la hidroeléctrica Urrá S.A.
Indigenous Leader Killed
On Mar. 4 alleged paramilitaries abducted Colombian indigenous leader Samuel Fernandez Diza from a taxi parking lot across from a police station in the urban area of Santander de Quilichao, Cauca department; his body was found the next day on the road leading to Caloto municipality. Fernandez was the former governor of the Las Delicias indigenous reservation in Buenos Aires municipality. He was abducted while going to the police station to try to recover his motorcycle, which police had confiscated. [Communique from Asociacion de Cabildos Indigenas del Norte del Cauca (ACIN) and Consejo Regional Indigena del Cauca (CRIC) 3/9/02 via Colombia Indymedia]
From the Weekly News Update on the Americas (ISSN 1084-922X), published by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York, 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012, 212-674-9499, wnu@igc.org.
