Petition for any progressive in the UK:
Alvaro Uribe is not welcome in the UK! Alvaro Uribe no es bienvenido en el Reino Unido!
Petition by Miguel Puerto
London, United Kingdom
Canning House and the Institute of Latin American Studies have invited ex-Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to give a talk at Senate House on 31st October 2013. The decision to invite Uribe to talk by such prestigious institutions is troubling since it offers him undeserved moral legitimacy at a time when his eventual incarceration for serious crimes against the Colombian people looks increasingly likely. I believe that Uribe’s responsibility for crimes against humanity means that he is deserving of moral censure, and thus urge you to rescind his invitation:
Alvaro Uribe is currently under investigation in Colombia for sponsoring paramilitary death squads.
According to the internationally renowned Colombian human rights defender Father Javier Giraldo, Alvaro Uribe ‘orchestrated the coordination between the Army and the paramilitary groups that resulted in 14,000 extrajudicial executions during his term of office.'
These extrajudicial executions include around 3000 ‘false positives’, cases in which civilians (mainly rural peasants) were murdered by the Colombian army then dressed in military fatigues and presented as guerrillas fallen in combat
During Uribe’s time in office, state security services coordinated the systematic political persecution, harassment assassination of anyone deemed to be an opponent of the government: Supreme Court judges, opposition politicians, trade unionists, human rights defenders, community leaders, students, academics, indigenous and Afro-descendent leaders.
More:
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/alvaro-uribe-is-not-welcome-in-the-uk-alvaro-uribe-no-es-bienvenido-en-el-reino-unido
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