| | Colombia: Assassination of union - community leader in Cali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The territories of the Colombian Pacific, which have been inhabited by African descendants for some 400 years, are coveted for their immense resource wealth and development potential, which includes petroleum, gold, uranium, precious timber, biodiversity and enormous potential for hydroelectric dam development. |
 | | We have received an urgent request from the Colombian Communist Party for the support of the international community concerning the increasing persecution of their members by state security forces. |
 | | The Colombian Communist Party, long persecuted for their politics along with the Patriotic Union (together they have seen more than 5,000 of their members assassinated by state security forces and paramilitaries since 1985) are experiencing a renewed escalation of this persecution against a background of the siege-like conditions of the Bush/Blair new world order. |
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