Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 10/11/2007 - 22:25.
At least 15 were injured in the protest mobilization that affected five cities in Colombia Oct. 10, with the worst violence in Cauca, where National Police attacked blockades that had been set up on the Panamerican Highway. Eight protesters were reported injured, and seven police. At least 1,600 participated in the roadblock, and at least three trucks were set aflame. On Oct. 11 in Santander de Quilichao, a main town on the Panamerican Highway, a mixed force of army and National Police special anti-riot force, ESMAD, attacked a gathering in the central square by ground and helicopter, firing tear-gas and shrapnel bombs, leaving at least seven wounded.
Some 3,000 campesinos marched on Ibagué, capital of Tolima department, with significant mobilizations also reported from Bogotá, Barranquilla and Cartagena. The mobilization was dubbed the Day of National Agrarian and Popular Protest (Jornada Nacional de Protesta Agraria y Popular). (AP, La Prensa, Panama, Oct. 10; DH Colombia, Oct. 11)
The following day, FARC guerillas attacked the indigenous-majority town of Belalcazar in eastern Cauca, in an apparent attempt to rob the local branch of the Banco Agrario. The guerillas reportedly entered the town shooting from the surrounding hills. The retreated when the Colombian Air Force sent in Phantom fighter planes and helicopter gunships. (AFP, Radio Caracol, Colombia, Oct. 11)
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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Cauca: protests turn violent, FARC attacks indigenous town
At least 15 were injured in the protest mobilization that affected five cities in Colombia Oct. 10, with the worst violence in Cauca, where National Police attacked blockades that had been set up on the Panamerican Highway. Eight protesters were reported injured, and seven police. At least 1,600 participated in the roadblock, and at least three trucks were set aflame. On Oct. 11 in Santander de Quilichao, a main town on the Panamerican Highway, a mixed force of army and National Police special anti-riot force, ESMAD, attacked a gathering in the central square by ground and helicopter, firing tear-gas and shrapnel bombs, leaving at least seven wounded.
Some 3,000 campesinos marched on Ibagué, capital of Tolima department, with significant mobilizations also reported from Bogotá, Barranquilla and Cartagena. The mobilization was dubbed the Day of National Agrarian and Popular Protest (Jornada Nacional de Protesta Agraria y Popular). (AP, La Prensa, Panama, Oct. 10; DH Colombia, Oct. 11)
The following day, FARC guerillas attacked the indigenous-majority town of Belalcazar in eastern Cauca, in an apparent attempt to rob the local branch of the Banco Agrario. The guerillas reportedly entered the town shooting from the surrounding hills. The retreated when the Colombian Air Force sent in Phantom fighter planes and helicopter gunships. (AFP, Radio Caracol, Colombia, Oct. 11)