"For memory against forgetting and for justice "
(Press Release of the Association of Parents and Families of Victims of Sucumbios, Ecuador, three years after the murder of our sons and political persecution in against the survivor Lucia Morett.)
March 1 marks the third anniversary of the bombing of Colombia to Ecuador in which 25 people were killed, including Veronica Velazquez Ramirez, Fernando Franco Delgado, Juan González del Castillo and Soren Ulises Aviles Angeles and the attempted murder, injury and torture of Lucia Morett Álvarez. During 1085 days we have not only suffered the painful absence of our children, we faced the power and impunity of the Colombian State, following the taking of life to the four young Mexicans, has sought to justify the outrage committed by criminals and accusing them of using a process unfounded Bogota court in July 2009 reached an Interpol red notice for international arrest of Lucia Morett, which was maintained and invested the papers to criminalize the victims and to put the aggressor as victim. We denounce that even in our own country have been victims of espionage and death threats made by the former Ambassador of Colombia in Mexico, Luis Camilo Osorio, who cynically confessed to investigating the political activities of students at the UNAM, which documented illegal acts to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Against this background we wish to emphasize the following points:
1. Three years later vindicate the memory of our children to develop professionally as well embraced the Latin American dream of Bolívar. We insist, they were not criminals, their stay at the bombed camp was for legitimate concerns, and to study. Wikileakes today's revelations about the case confirmed the civilian status of students attacked by the Colombian military. It is incomprehensible the media that no evidence pointed to these young terrorists, now keep silent about the content of cable March 28, 2008 issued by the Embassy of the United States in Mexico, said: "baseless allegations that Lucia Morett and the students killed by the Colombian military in Sucumbios, Ecuador, were contacts of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in Mexico or received training from the guerrillas. "
Against this background we wish to emphasize the following points:
1. Three years later vindicate the memory of our children to develop professionally as well embraced the Latin American dream of Bolívar. We insist, they were not criminals, their stay at the bombed camp was for legitimate concerns, and to study. Wikileakes today's revelations about the case confirmed the civilian status of students attacked by the Colombian military. It is incomprehensible the media that no evidence pointed to these young terrorists, now keep silent about the content of cable March 28, 2008 issued by the Embassy of the United States in Mexico, said: "baseless allegations that Lucia Morett and the students killed by the Colombian military in Sucumbios, Ecuador, were contacts of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in Mexico or received training from the guerrillas. "
Although these statements are not new and correspond to what we have sustained the families of the students and the very Lucia Morett, the relevance of these is the source from which they came and how they contribute to the truth of the facts. The Colombian attack on Ecuador premeditated, with bombings like those who are suffering the Libyan people, was itself illegal and violates international law and human rights. The U.S. embassy cable more evident the injustice done by showing the deadly assault in addition to civilians affected parties to the conflict. The unjustifiable arguments Alvaro Uribe and leaders of the slaughter, the attack on terrorism and preventive war, collapse all the time.
2. The October 2010 decision of the Human Rights Commission OAS which ruled that the claim is admissible in the State of Ecuador against Colombia for the killing of the Ecuadorean Franklin Aisalla, encourages us in the fight for justice, because it was the same event that killed our children and are even mentioned in that process. This landmark decision involving crimes against humanity is significant to the extent that allows this claim and the grounds on which it rests being the extension for the murder of Mexican students.
3. In late 2010 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico responded to the new application from the Supreme Court of Ecuador who asked to specify the sense of rejection 1 March 2010 on the extradition of Lucia Morett the view that it was categorical response of the Mexican state. This answer has not been made public in Mexico and was released Lucia or their families, keeping the uncertainty about the defense of a Mexican that is not found any crime and that clearly was a victim of human rights violations . The secrecy with which the SRE has handled this matter contradicts the agreement that we had to keep us informed of the affairs of our analysis has also been called into question the commitment of several months, through a national newspaper, made the spokesman of the dependence give us an interview at the highest level.
4. We call upon the competent authorities to analyze and dismiss the unfounded lawsuits that have been established absurd charges against Lucía Morett and have implied a political persecution that will not let her live in peace and have their freedom severely at risk , security and integrity.
5. In efforts to seek justice for our children we were encouraged by the decision of December 24, 2010 the Prosecutor of Sucumbios, Ecuador, which asked a judge of that province to issue the arrest warrants against six senior Colombian military and police officials accused of being responsible to deprive of life to 23 people on March 1, 2008 and that includes our children. Although this order fails to ask for Mr. Juan Manuel Santos, as the current president of Colombia, is also identified as one of the perpetrators of the killings. It's a small step but we are convinced that this resolution will eventually help to all those responsible for the slaughter they are imprisoned, because their crimes do not prescribe.
6. These three years of struggle, pain and great adversity to achieve justice have been more bearable if the political will of the Mexican officials were resolutely defend their fellow citizens and if the statement April, 2008 by Felipe Calderón, in the sense that it would do justice to the parents asked for, been translated into action. Over time our constitutional right audience seems to fade, and Felipe Calderon and the Minister Patricia Espinosa we have been receiving. We insisted that they heard the call for justice for our children, victims of crime abroad may suffer more severe than the human being: the deprivation of life in an act of State described as illegal and in violation of international law and humanitarian law; well qualified for the Inter-American System and the government of our country when they condemned the aggression of Álvaro Uribe.
WE EXPECT TO BE TREATED. INSIST THAT OVER THE GOVERNMENTS ARE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN POLICY AND THE LAW LAW that corresponded to our children as MEXICAN CITIZENS AND U.S. AS WE ARE CALLED TO FAMILIES OF VICTIMS OF THE SLAUGHTER.
ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS OF Sucumbios ECUADOR
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