Forced Disappearance in Guamocó (Sur de Bolívar)

27.05.06

Asociación Campesina del Valle del Río Cimitarra (ACVC)
asociacion.campesina@gmail.com

Campesino Reserve Zone, May 27th, 2006

The community of Guamocó, in the Sur de Bolívar, sends out an alert about the disappearance of MERCEDES ROJAS NARANJO, who was in the settlement of La Corona on May 25th (part of the Santa Rosa del Sur municipality, department of Bolívar). Community witnesses reported that around midday, armed men dressed in civilian clothing, presumably paramilitaries, came to La Corona, taking Mercedes with them in a chalupa (motorized canoe). Since that moment, the whereabouts of this person are unknown.

In this area, the Plan Especial Vial y Energético No.5 of the National Army operates, with base in El Bagre (Antioquia), just as paramilitaries from the Central Bolívar Block (BCB), supposedly demobilized. The ELN and FARC guerrillas also are present in the region.

We ask all parts in the armed conflict, who may possibly be Mercedes captors, to respect her life and free her immediately. Likewise, we ask humanitarian organizaciones that the necessary measures be taken so that Mercedes may return home, and that follow-up be done on actions that paramilitaries are doing, supposedly “demobilized”, who continue to attack the civilian population in the Magdalena Medio.

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