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4 Feb 2011

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Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz [Colombia]

Occupiers of collective properties reveal the complicity of the 17th Brigade and Banacol [Colombia]

Two Biodiversity Zones affected, 122 hectares wiped away, 320 hectares trampled, a source of water affected, and 19 campsites installed are part of the damage caused by the invaders, bad-faith occupiers in the collective properties of Camelias in Curvaradó…The occupation of the properties is interpreted as a strategy to favour the sectors benefiting from paramilitarism or business sectors by hindering the restoration of the collective property. Therefore, the paramilitaries have threatened the leaders of the community councils of the Humanitarian Zones…The invaders…say that they will not go because they count on supporters, among them those of the 17th Brigade, which advises them in the constitution of a legal status and the creation of boards of communal action, and of Banacol…The possible responsibility of Banacol in these illegal operations is a terrible precedent for the approval of free-trade agreements, against the principles of business ethics and the democracy stipulation of the EU.

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