Police in southern Colombia are trying to impede protests: Strike organizers
Police in southern Colombia are trying to impede protests: Strike organizers
posted by Adriaan Alsema
Aug 19, 2013
The leftist political movement Marcha Patriotica, one of the organizers of a national strike called for Monday, said Sunday that police is impeding protesters to travel to where protests are planned and is stigmatizing legitimate demonstrators.
Additionally, the movement — led by former Senator Piedad Cordoba and an umbrella organization for approximately 1,000 smaller organizations — said that one of its local leaders in the Huila department was threatened at gun point by an unidentified man.
The Marcha Patriotica said in a press release that it has received complaints from the Huila department that Police since Thursday has been impeding public transport buses to take people from the department capital Neiva to rural parts of the department where farmers’ protests are set to be held.
When one of its regional coordinators tried to verify the claims and got on a bus in Neiva on Saturday, a man on a motorbike pulled up beside the bus, pulled a gun and threatened the activist’s life, said the organization.
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