Paramilitaries Use Aircraft
El conflicto entre el Pueblo Embera Katío y la hidroeléctrica Urrá S.A.
Peace Community Member Killed
On Mar. 30, paramilitaries abducted and later murdered Gilma Rosa Graciano, a childcare worker and resident of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado. Graciano was on a bus when it was stopped by two armed men in civilian clothes, just three minutes after passing through a Colombian army checkpoint. The paramilitaries seized Graciano and a co-worker of hers who later managed to escape. Two army soldiers had been killed by leftist rebels two days earlier; the commander of the local Bejarano- Munoz battalion, Colonel Javier Vicente Hernandez-Acosta, claimed the rebels who killed the soldiers had spent the previous night in San Jose. Members of the Peace Community deny the charge. [Colombia Support Network Urgent Action 4/2/02]
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.
