DD.HH. DEFENDERS OF THE PLAINS TO THE MILITARY DENOUNCE continue to harass the FARMERS AFTER KIDNAPPING, TORTURE, RAPE AND MURDER OF THREE CHILDREN
On October 14, in Township Tame, Arauca Department , three children, Jaime Torres Jhoan Jefferson (6 years), Jimmy Ferney Torres Jaimes (9 years) and Jenny Narvey Jaimes Torres (14 years), were abducted from their farm by soldiers of the Eighth Colombian Army division, while his father Jose Alvaro Torres was in farming. The children suffered horrendous torture, were raped (no evidence of semen and sexual abuse marks on their bodies and clothes) and then killed by sticking with knives (machetes). Their bodies were later buried in two graves in the bushes near the cottage where they lived. Blood was found in the backpacks of seven of the sixty soldiers of the mobile unit, which are under investigation.
Crimes such as this, moreover, are not exceptional. In the same area, residents reported that on October 2, a 13 year old girl was kidnapped by soldiers and then sexually abused. This is a region particularly stigmatized. Army And the pressure on farmers is increased after the discovery of mass grave La Magdalena, the largest in Latin America .
The opposition Polo Democrático Alternativo (PDA) condemned the murder of three brothers children kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered. Its president, Clara López also requested guarantees for human rights defenders who make up this triple murder that shocked society and are still seeking their eclarecimiento.
"The Colombian state has to ask forgiveness for criminal blunder size and refine the research process to judge promptly and ensure the work of human rights organizations denounce this kind of abuse" said leader PDA.
Authorities are investigating about 60 soldiers from two battalions operating near where multiple murders occurred while eight other policemen were dismissed for failures in process control and personal control.
While the government and military leaders condemned the acts and apologized to the families of the victims, the bereaved father said that the damage of losing their children is irreparable.
still present in the collective memory of the scandal involving the army, two years after they were revealed to the public practice of extrajudicial killings by soldiers in acts considered as crimes of state, known euphemistically here as " false positives. "
continue extra-legal crimes
Ramiro Orjuela, human rights lawyer, denounced the worsening violations of the right to life of children in the departments of the eastern plains , arbitrary arrests and all sorts of abuses against peasant leaders who organized the public hearing on mass graves held on July 22, 2010 in the municipality of the Macarena in the department of Meta .
The military pressure on the family of the murdered children
The Army and other State institutions pressing for the family of the girl raped and murdered with his two brothers in a village of Tame granted "forgiveness " in contrast with the little state support received by the family before their forced displacement
This is denouncing the association of defense Human Rights Current Site Arauca, in the following
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Current Site Legal Corporation and the Standing Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, Chapter Arauca, show the public regional, national and international levels:
To reject with deep concern the lobbying of institutions State, Army and some media about Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES and his family to grant forgiveness for the death of his daughter and sons, and the general stigma that makes ALEJANDRO NAVAS the accompanying human rights organizations and representatives of the victims.
As representatives of the judicial JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES, energetically rectify the information that has been supplied by the mass media on the meeting of "forgiveness" held last Thursday 04 November between Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES, father of the child and children killed in the village of El Temblador the municipality of Tame (Arauca) and commanders of the Eighth Division and XVIII Brigade of the Army in the premises of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute-ICBF.
While this meeting was held behind closed doors, it was done without prior and informed consent of Mr. Torres, who went to the premises so ICBF naive, on the understanding that the meeting would be on the steps to come forward with ICBF to ensure conditions of dignity for himself and his children, because of its present situation of forced displacement.
Mr. Torres has shown us, the human rights organizations that accompanied it, the Army told him in no time request for forgiveness for the heinous crimes committed by one or more of its members but the attitude of looking for members of the Army that Mr. JOSE ALVARO TORRES give their consent to record an interview in which he agreed to grant a pardon to the national army and then be presented to the mass media. This situation became clear when Mr. Torres asked the Attorney General's Office his speech to the commanders of the Army to cease the continual and repeated phone calls he made on Friday November 5, in order to manifest the mass acceptance of forgiveness.
To reject with deep concern the lobbying of institutions State, Army and some media about Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES and his family to grant forgiveness for the death of his daughter and sons, and the general stigma that makes ALEJANDRO NAVAS the accompanying human rights organizations and representatives of the victims.
As representatives of the judicial JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES, energetically rectify the information that has been supplied by the mass media on the meeting of "forgiveness" held last Thursday 04 November between Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES, father of the child and children killed in the village of El Temblador the municipality of Tame (Arauca) and commanders of the Eighth Division and XVIII Brigade of the Army in the premises of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute-ICBF.
While this meeting was held behind closed doors, it was done without prior and informed consent of Mr. Torres, who went to the premises so ICBF naive, on the understanding that the meeting would be on the steps to come forward with ICBF to ensure conditions of dignity for himself and his children, because of its present situation of forced displacement.
Mr. Torres has shown us, the human rights organizations that accompanied it, the Army told him in no time request for forgiveness for the heinous crimes committed by one or more of its members but the attitude of looking for members of the Army that Mr. JOSE ALVARO TORRES give their consent to record an interview in which he agreed to grant a pardon to the national army and then be presented to the mass media. This situation became clear when Mr. Torres asked the Attorney General's Office his speech to the commanders of the Army to cease the continual and repeated phone calls he made on Friday November 5, in order to manifest the mass acceptance of forgiveness.
regard to this tragedy that occurred to Mr. JOSE ALVARO TORRES family and demand that they be criminal and disciplinary investigations which do justice and reveal not only him and his family but the national and international community, who are responsible for sexual abuse and murder of his daughter and her two children, what happened on these facts, be given exemplary punishment not only those who committed these crimes, but for those with command and effective control over the troops.
We call on the Ombudsman's Office and the Colombian Family Welfare Institute, headed by regional directors of the department of Arauca, to comply with constitutional and legal duties are in prevention, protection and defense of human rights, preference and prevalence of the rights of children. Likewise, to adopt a position of respect for the dignity of the victims and not only get its action to seek a rapprochement between the victims - Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES, and with the family and the other girl sexually abused by insisting they must try to reconcile, when such crimes have no vocation of reconciliation and constitutional functions are to ensure the best interests of children.
face of such tragedy that shocked the whole of society anyone would think that the families of the victims would receive decent care and integral part of the state and its institutions but the reality is not so, Don Alvaro and his family are living in inhuman conditions at the home of a relative, where the few belongings that you have given are the result of collections made by some officials, for example, the fan gave it a journalist, collects stove a few public officials who made the beds in the second and in poor condition, so the donated another institution. Current Site
Legal Corporation and the Standing Committee for the Defence of Human Rights chapter Arauca, denounce and reject the irresponsible and intimidating statements of the National Army commander ALEJANDRO NAVAS, in an interview to the newspaper El Tiempo, day, November 7, 2010, which stigmatizes the work we have been doing human rights organizations recognized in the department of Arauca and national and international level, saying that "foreign organizations have seized him, referring to Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES - to disorient and make these allegations which are not when they commit murder and abuse thousands of children. What better opportunity than this to tarnish the name of the Army. "
We remind the Commander of the Army and the national and international public opinion that those who have defiled the name of that institution have been the same members as in service have become active crime and violation of rights in a systematic and widespread throughout the country, as evidenced by the serious cases of extrajudicial killings that have been made public.
believe that the serious human rights violations perpetrated by members of the Army, in this case can not be classified as mere institutional failures, and that the responsibility for a heinous crime like this girl and children, you want to show which is the work of one person, a "bad apple" as usual to do the military leaders in the serious cases of human rights violations that have been compromised Forces, and have been reported and known publicly.
institutional failures have been reported by the military body, were presented from the lack of attention to complaints and requests from the village communities and El Caño Camama Temblador performed by the sexual abuse case filed in the sector, and for not having heeded the request for support to the disappearance and subsequent discovery of the bodies of children JAIMES TORRES, issues that give rise to liability in light of the Colombian criminal law (Article 25 of Act 599 of 2000) 1, as provided in Article 161 of the Penal Code that talks about the omission of measures to protect the population civil, in the course and conduct of armed conflict and Article 417 on abuse of authority for failure to report.
Under the mandatory provisions for the Colombian international law of human rights, international humanitarian law and international criminal statute, the omissions in the effective command and control over the troops, also give rise to liability in criminal matters disciplinary and administrative superiors of the same, with respect to crimes committed by their subordinates.
We call on the Ombudsman's Office and the Colombian Family Welfare Institute, headed by regional directors of the department of Arauca, to comply with constitutional and legal duties are in prevention, protection and defense of human rights, preference and prevalence of the rights of children. Likewise, to adopt a position of respect for the dignity of the victims and not only get its action to seek a rapprochement between the victims - Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES, and with the family and the other girl sexually abused by insisting they must try to reconcile, when such crimes have no vocation of reconciliation and constitutional functions are to ensure the best interests of children.
face of such tragedy that shocked the whole of society anyone would think that the families of the victims would receive decent care and integral part of the state and its institutions but the reality is not so, Don Alvaro and his family are living in inhuman conditions at the home of a relative, where the few belongings that you have given are the result of collections made by some officials, for example, the fan gave it a journalist, collects stove a few public officials who made the beds in the second and in poor condition, so the donated another institution. Current Site
Legal Corporation and the Standing Committee for the Defence of Human Rights chapter Arauca, denounce and reject the irresponsible and intimidating statements of the National Army commander ALEJANDRO NAVAS, in an interview to the newspaper El Tiempo, day, November 7, 2010, which stigmatizes the work we have been doing human rights organizations recognized in the department of Arauca and national and international level, saying that "foreign organizations have seized him, referring to Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES - to disorient and make these allegations which are not when they commit murder and abuse thousands of children. What better opportunity than this to tarnish the name of the Army. "
We remind the Commander of the Army and the national and international public opinion that those who have defiled the name of that institution have been the same members as in service have become active crime and violation of rights in a systematic and widespread throughout the country, as evidenced by the serious cases of extrajudicial killings that have been made public.
believe that the serious human rights violations perpetrated by members of the Army, in this case can not be classified as mere institutional failures, and that the responsibility for a heinous crime like this girl and children, you want to show which is the work of one person, a "bad apple" as usual to do the military leaders in the serious cases of human rights violations that have been compromised Forces, and have been reported and known publicly.
institutional failures have been reported by the military body, were presented from the lack of attention to complaints and requests from the village communities and El Caño Camama Temblador performed by the sexual abuse case filed in the sector, and for not having heeded the request for support to the disappearance and subsequent discovery of the bodies of children JAIMES TORRES, issues that give rise to liability in light of the Colombian criminal law (Article 25 of Act 599 of 2000) 1, as provided in Article 161 of the Penal Code that talks about the omission of measures to protect the population civil, in the course and conduct of armed conflict and Article 417 on abuse of authority for failure to report.
Under the mandatory provisions for the Colombian international law of human rights, international humanitarian law and international criminal statute, the omissions in the effective command and control over the troops, also give rise to liability in criminal matters disciplinary and administrative superiors of the same, with respect to crimes committed by their subordinates.
warn about bullying, name calling, long interrogations, censuses censuses or illegal, the police have been doing (army and police) in the communities of the villages nearby where the slaughter occurred (villages of Holland and Hope), which can lead to potential victims and witnesses to leave the area or reluctant to go to the authorities to investigate the crimes.
We made it clear to the public regional, national and international levels to support the work we've been doing Mr. JOSE ALVARO TORRES and his family, takes place in the framework of actions to defend human rights that we demand to the different local law enforcement, national and international, and our condition legal representatives. We are not "foreign organizations, but organizations that defend the life, dignity, human rights and the rights of victims to the TRUTH, JUSTICE and the INTEGRAL REPAIR.
THEREFORE WE DEMAND:
1. That the Attorney General's Office within the framework of research that are accelerated are called by their responsibility for their negligent conduct in these events, members of the Army dismissed on Tuesday November 2, 2010, as that under the rules that are binding on Colombia in the context of international human rights and especially international criminal law.
2. That in its constitutional and legal on the investigation to elucidate the facts, the imposition of criminal liability in such event, and will not cease in their efforts to achieve real truth in these heinous crimes by linking a single author course material and intellectual.
3. The Attorney to file the jurisdiction of the disciplinary investigations carried out in the context of this case in the Special Prosecutor for the Defense of Human Rights is competent to further the investigations leading to establish the disciplinary responsibility of the soldiers involved in the case.
4. A different agencies of the United Nations to react to the actions of intimidation, civil and military authorities local and national law enforcement are doing on the families of these two cases and compromising their emotional integrity and safety, as well as the legitimate social organizations and human rights have been doing for the sake of clarifying the facts and assist in the vindication of the rights to truth, justice and reparation for victims.
5. A Social Action, Family Welfare, the Government of Arauca and the mayor of Tame, to assume their constitutional and legal duty to provide decent living conditions and holistically Mr. JOSE Alvaro and his family. These are not handouts of charity but an obligation of the State whose responsibility is involved in this serious crime.
6. At all institutions have a constitutional responsibility to protect life, safety, good name and freedom of individuals, we require real protection measures for the Torres family, for witnesses and to cease the harassment, abuse and censuses to communities in the villages near where occurred the horrible slaughter of children (Holland and Hope).
7. A media of national and internationally to continue to report with objectivity while respecting the dignity of the victims, the memory of children raped and murdered and present information much more objectively and truthfully. Corporacion Juridica
Current Site (Sources: Prensa Latina, ACIN and Hey Brother)
We made it clear to the public regional, national and international levels to support the work we've been doing Mr. JOSE ALVARO TORRES and his family, takes place in the framework of actions to defend human rights that we demand to the different local law enforcement, national and international, and our condition legal representatives. We are not "foreign organizations, but organizations that defend the life, dignity, human rights and the rights of victims to the TRUTH, JUSTICE and the INTEGRAL REPAIR.
THEREFORE WE DEMAND:
1. That the Attorney General's Office within the framework of research that are accelerated are called by their responsibility for their negligent conduct in these events, members of the Army dismissed on Tuesday November 2, 2010, as that under the rules that are binding on Colombia in the context of international human rights and especially international criminal law.
2. That in its constitutional and legal on the investigation to elucidate the facts, the imposition of criminal liability in such event, and will not cease in their efforts to achieve real truth in these heinous crimes by linking a single author course material and intellectual.
3. The Attorney to file the jurisdiction of the disciplinary investigations carried out in the context of this case in the Special Prosecutor for the Defense of Human Rights is competent to further the investigations leading to establish the disciplinary responsibility of the soldiers involved in the case.
4. A different agencies of the United Nations to react to the actions of intimidation, civil and military authorities local and national law enforcement are doing on the families of these two cases and compromising their emotional integrity and safety, as well as the legitimate social organizations and human rights have been doing for the sake of clarifying the facts and assist in the vindication of the rights to truth, justice and reparation for victims.
5. A Social Action, Family Welfare, the Government of Arauca and the mayor of Tame, to assume their constitutional and legal duty to provide decent living conditions and holistically Mr. JOSE Alvaro and his family. These are not handouts of charity but an obligation of the State whose responsibility is involved in this serious crime.
6. At all institutions have a constitutional responsibility to protect life, safety, good name and freedom of individuals, we require real protection measures for the Torres family, for witnesses and to cease the harassment, abuse and censuses to communities in the villages near where occurred the horrible slaughter of children (Holland and Hope).
7. A media of national and internationally to continue to report with objectivity while respecting the dignity of the victims, the memory of children raped and murdered and present information much more objectively and truthfully. Corporacion Juridica
Current Site (Sources: Prensa Latina, ACIN and Hey Brother)
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