FROM SOUTH TO SOUTH
a revolutionary act
I address this open letter to the ELN Central Command, headed by its commanders and spokesmen, Antonio Garcia, Francisco Galan, Juan Carlos Cuellar and Pablo Beltran; their fronts, their bases and their support communities, just past the December 25, the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus, and knowing in advance deep religious devotion and his genuine desire to move decisively on the path of peace and final abandonment of weapons.
Gentlemen, we can say higher, but not clearer: the ELN can not continue to use human shields to defend their ideals.
The ELN can not continue to use the lives of thousands of people as a bargaining chip in negotiations. The ELN terror does not need to denounce injustice.
Kidnapping is the worst form of torture, terrorism and forced disappearance and most degrading humiliations.
Kidnapping is no different than a disastrous free market is a practice of slavery and slavery can not be a means of liberation. It has therefore been classified as an extremely serious crime under the universal jurisdiction, it injures the conscience of humanity.
Slavery and torture are crimes that do not prescribe, and that if the ELN is not resolved now as part of a political agreement, I assure you with the same determination with which we have prevented the impunity for violations committed by paramilitaries , we will prevent impunity for crimes committed by you.
The ELN can not remain part of the goods of terror. This has to stop. No more excuses, no more procrastination, no more hesitation.
The country demands the immediate and unilateral release of all hostages still in power. That is the only acceptable symbol of peace is the only gesture that can bring together the nation around the desire for peace and is the only way the international community and those who humbly serve the cause of peace we can support, protect and verify this process.
Freedom is a non-negotiable principle.
humanitarian demining process, unilaterally announced by you, contains a series of complications that make it unfeasible in the short term, while necessitate a military verification of a clear de facto and, paradoxically, the manipulation of a large quantity of explosives for the deactivation of these minefields.
All this will take time, building confidence and a sum of wills that do not exist. The ELN can no longer excited the country with dreams vacant and no solutions can be made out of very poor so far announced agreements at the table with no agenda and no destination, which is not negotiated anything because both you and the Government lost initiative for some time.
is equally true that this type of repair and rehabilitation processes, such as demining, not be exhausted early, as they could become the key to a formula of justice that may help solve some of the debts that the ELN has acquired with its direct victims, with nature, with the nation, with its own ideological principles and the humanity.
immediate release of the hostages is the greatest revolutionary acts with the ELN will support the ongoing process of truth and justice in the country.
is an act of liberation for the country, which needs emancipation from fear, and especially to you, who, finally free of that shame may well start the way back home. Write me to desurasur@gmail.com
Natalia Springer
Edition 25/2006 Weather
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