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Professors, Librarians,
Staff, Students and Pensioners Threatened at University of Antioquia
Death
Squads at Colombia Universities
A Public Statement
by Professors, Lecturers and Faculty of the Universidad de Antioquia
Medellin, Colombia, May 25
de 2006
PUBLIC STATEMENT TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Professors, lecturers, and faculty of the University of Antioquia,
gathered on May 25, 2006, outside the university campus, due
to the unexpected closure of our Alma Mater and in the course
of the deplorable events of threats by pamilitary death squads
against our community, which severely affects normal functioning.
WE DENOUNCE:
1. On 9 May, 2006, on the university
campus, a letter written
in the name of a group of death squads that threatened to murder
15
members of our university community was circulated. On the 19
May 2006, through an email, another message extended the threat
to 8 more members of the university, and 3 days later, a new
communique was distributed and signed by a group calling itself
"Colombia Free of Communists," in which, by fully endorsing
the current president and his "democratic security"
policies, they extended threats to the whole university community
and to various organizations defenders of freedom and human rights.
2. In the days leading up to
the presidential elections, the University of Antioquia, as well
as other state universities, were closed, silencing the possibility
for deliberation, and obstructing that the chance that persons
directly threatened with murder would be accompanied.
3. Furthermore, electoral authorities
have decided to exclude the professors, lecturers, faculty, students,
staff, and retired people of the University of Antioquia, among
others, from exercising a historic function by serving as voting
observers. This makes the environment even more strained, and
casts a mantle of doubt over the elections.
4. Finally, we denounce that
the series of threats, followed by the
closure of the university and the evident mistrust spreading
in our university community, represents an extremely serious
precedent. We call for all university people and the national
and international community to close ranks around the necessity
to defend the open university, without any type of threats.
Above all, the University is
a center for open and plural debate for the construction of knowledge
and for the free exercise of citizenship with a critical spirit
and social commitment.
PROFESSORS, LECTURERS, AND
FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA
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