HRDs Receive Threats Against Family Members
On 12 February 2013 a family member of a human rights defender found a printed out version of an old email under the door of her home. At the end of the email it stated: “Since they ignored this information, we will proceed with their families and see if that hurts”.
MOVICE is a human rights organisation which monitors human rights violations committed by the state in the context of the armed conflict and calls for state agents and paramilitaries to be brought to justice.
Several human rights defenders in Sucre have received the latest in a series of death threats allegedly sent by the paramilitary group the Águilas Negras(Black Eagles).
On 12 February 2013 a family member of a human rights defender found a printed out version of an old email under the door of her home. At the end of the email it stated: “Since they ignored this information, we will proceed with their families and see if that hurts”.
The original email stated: "[...] you members of MOVICE are nothing but rats that need to be exterminated, we decided to have another stab at this movement of terrorists that takes the land from good people to give to guerrillas posing as peasants, so we are going to write off your leaders in Sucre, we're referring to Ingrid Vergara and Juan David Díaz who have dedicated themselves to misinforming, nationally and internationally, our valuable work defending the homeland by supporting the major terrorist IVAN CEPEDA. In the list he is followed by Adolfo Verbel, Veronica Montaño, Adil Melendres, Jorge Velasquez, alena Martinez, Candelaria Barrios Y Adriana Porras. The beginning of the end for you and we do not wish you a happy christmas because you will not have one. AGUILAS NEGRAS FOR A COLOMBIA FREE OF GUERRILLAS.”
