{"id":6702,"date":"2018-12-07T23:33:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T23:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/?p=6702"},"modified":"2021-07-02T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T15:07:36","slug":"fuerte-llamado-a-la-resistencia-en-la-conmemoracion-de-los-asesinados-por-paramilitares-en-la-masacre-de-la-sarna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/?p=6702","title":{"rendered":"Fuerte llamado a la resistencia en la conmemoraci\u00f3n de los asesinados por paramilitares en la Masacre de la Sarna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;S\u00f3lo le pido a Dios<br \/>\nQue lo injusto no me sea indiferente<br \/>\nQue no me abofeteen la otra mejilla<br \/>\nDespu\u00e9s que una garra me ara\u00f1\u00f3 esta suerte&#8217;<br \/>\nPor Le\u00f3n Gieco con Mercedes Sosa<\/p>\n<p>Art\u00edculo por Paul Salgado<br \/>\nRed de Hermandad y Solidaridad con Colombia (RedHer)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;La \u00e9lite desde hace mucho tiempo declar\u00f3 la guerra a los pobres, a los campesinos, a los que se resisten a los cr\u00edmenes contra la gente. Estamos aqu\u00ed para conmemorar a quienes fueron masacrados por paramilitares hace 17 a\u00f1os, pero esta guerra contin\u00faa. Necesitamos mantener la fe y esperar, porque en una guerra, esperar es resistir, y un pueblo que resiste no puede ser destruido&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Las palabras del sacerdote a veces se perd\u00edan en el viento del p\u00e1ramo de la alta monta\u00f1a, pero aquellos que hab\u00edan recorrido el largo y desolado camino para llegar a este lugar sombr\u00edo, hermoso y solitario, llamado &#8216;La Sarna&#8217;, en las monta\u00f1as de Boyac\u00e1, no dejaron de escucharlas.<\/p>\n<p>El padre Carlos Alberto Prias habl\u00f3 en una misa en memoria de 15 trabajadores y campesinos, asesinados por hombres pagados para cometer actos brutales de terror indiscriminado con la connivencia y la protecci\u00f3n de un estado cuya \u00e9lite no admitir\u00eda oposici\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6703\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.redcolombia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarna-4-300x203.jpg?resize=640%2C433\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.redcolombia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarna-4.jpg?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.redcolombia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarna-4.jpg?resize=768%2C519&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>La RedHer acompa\u00f1\u00f3 la conmemoraci\u00f3n a las familias de los asesinados, y tambi\u00e9n a 1.000 compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros del Congreso de los Pueblos, Asociaci\u00f3n Nacional Campesina Jos\u00e9 Antonio Gal\u00e1n Zorro (ASONALCA), la Asociaci\u00f3n Nacional de J\u00f3venes y Estudiantes de Colombia (ANJECO), y otras organizaciones comunitarias que asistieron en solidaridad.<\/p>\n<p>Hace diecisiete a\u00f1os, el s\u00e1bado 1 de diciembre de 2001, hombres en uniformes militares detuvieron un peque\u00f1o autob\u00fas que hab\u00eda subido por la serpenteante carretera de la monta\u00f1a de Sogamoso para llegar a La Sarna, en la meseta de 3.000 metros de altura, y que se dirig\u00eda al peque\u00f1o pueblo de Labranzagrande, a\u00fan a dos horas de distancia entre las monta\u00f1as al borde de los llanos.<\/p>\n<p>Los paramilitares ordenaron al conductor, Hernando G\u00f3mez Garavito, que bloqueara la carretera con el autob\u00fas, antes de disparar a las llantas. Despu\u00e9s de obligar a los pasajeros a abandonar el autob\u00fas, los militares separaron a dos ni\u00f1os y una anciana, y ordenaron a los restantes, incluido el conductor del autob\u00fas y su asistente de 17 a\u00f1os, Luis Miguel Melo Espitia, que se acostaran boca abajo en la desolada carretera.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6704\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.redcolombia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarna-3-300x150.jpg?resize=640%2C320\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.redcolombia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarna-3.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.redcolombia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarna-3.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Esa ma\u00f1ana en diciembre, a la altura del p\u00e1ramo, el viento era fr\u00edo, nubes bajas y grises cubr\u00edan las laderas rocosas de las monta\u00f1as que ensombrec\u00edan el camino y una llovizna silenciaba el aire. Incluso si los cielos hubieran estado despejados, en este tramo del p\u00e1ramo no hab\u00eda otros caminos, ni ranchos, ni aldeas&#8230; nadie m\u00e1s para escuchar los disparos que terminaron con quince vidas.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Angel Gil Orduz, de 30 a\u00f1os; Mercedes Rivera, 22; Luis Arturo C\u00e1rdenas, 29; Isidro Alba Gu\u00edo, 54; Gonzalo Rinc\u00f3n Barrera, 30; Jos\u00e9 Antonio Mongu\u00ed P\u00e9rez, 52, y Herminda Blanco de Pe\u00f1a, 44, eran trabajadores.<\/p>\n<p>Abel Cudris Rodr\u00edguez, 52; Jos\u00e9 Bertulfo Noa Rosas, 50, y Jairo Isidoro Pe\u00f1a, 48, eran campesinos.<\/p>\n<p>Tania Leonor Correa Pidiachi, 21; Jonh Fredy Poveda Bayona, 17, y Luis Alejandro P\u00e9rez Fern\u00e1ndez, 22, eran estudiantes.<\/p>\n<p>Junto con Hernando, el conductor del autob\u00fas, y Luis Miguel, su asistente, todos recibieron una bala de la cabeza.<\/p>\n<p>Diez a\u00f1os m\u00e1s tarde, uno de los terroristas que participaron en los asesinatos declar\u00f3 que un comandante del escuadr\u00f3n de la muerte paramilitar Autodefensas Campesinas de Casanare (ACC) hab\u00eda acusado a todos en el autob\u00fas de ser guerrilleros del Ej\u00e9rcito de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional (ELN), y orden\u00f3 arbitrariamente su ejecuci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, de acuerdo con las declaraciones de los paramilitares que se desmovilizaron bajo la ley de Justicia y Paz del 2005, que permiti\u00f3 a los terroristas confesar sus cr\u00edmenes a cambio de penas de c\u00e1rcel leves, los asesinatos fueron cometidos por las ACC como una demostraci\u00f3n de fuerza, para declarar la ruta entre las monta\u00f1as y los llanos como \u00absu territorio\u00bb en una disputa con otros c\u00e1rteles de droga paramilitarizados, y con la complicidad y protecci\u00f3n de las Fuerzas Armadas de Colombia y de la polic\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de 17 a\u00f1os, el \u00fanico hombre condenado por participar en la masacre ha sido un miembro de la Brigada de Inteligencia Militar del Estado colombiano, quien fue condenado a 40 a\u00f1os de c\u00e1rcel por suministrar armas del ej\u00e9rcito a los asesinos.<\/p>\n<p>La evidencia ha sugerido que otro oficial de inteligencia militar coordin\u00f3 la masacre, mientras que un tribunal orden\u00f3 que un ex comandante de un Batall\u00f3n de Artiller\u00eda del Ej\u00e9rcito Colombiano, y tambi\u00e9n la polic\u00eda local, fuera investigado por permitir a los paramilitares movilizarse libremente en el \u00e1rea.<\/p>\n<p>En la conmemoraci\u00f3n, las familias de los asesinados exigieron justicia y conocer la verdad sobre por qu\u00e9 sus familiares fueron asesinados con la complicidad del Estado. \u201cQueremos una Colombia que nos respete a todos\u201d, declar\u00f3 una de las madres de las v\u00edctimas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNuestro territorio es una tierra de paz, y nunca olvidaremos a quienes perdieron la vida injustamente\u201d, insisti\u00f3 Carlos Alberto Mongu\u00ed, de la organizaci\u00f3n campesina ASONALCA. \u201cLos muertos no nos dejar\u00e1n olvidarlos, y por esta raz\u00f3n, tenemos que organizarnos en su memoria\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Un organizador de ANJECO, Jonathan Carmago, enfatiz\u00f3 que la impunidad de los paramilitares contin\u00faa en Colombia hasta el d\u00eda de hoy: \u201cLas garant\u00edas del Estado de no repetici\u00f3n de tal violencia son incumplidas cuando nuestros l\u00edderes de movimientos sociales est\u00e1n siendo encarcelados y estigmatizados por su trabajo en este momento\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Una defensora de los derechos humanos del Congreso de los Pueblos en Boyac\u00e1, Tatiana Triana, inst\u00f3 a los campesinos y trabajadores a \u201ccontinuar resistiendo y luchando por una vida digna, porque los sue\u00f1os de los que murieron no murieron con ellos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6705\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.redcolombia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarna-7-300x233.jpg?resize=640%2C497\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.redcolombia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarna-7.jpg?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.redcolombia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarna-7.jpg?resize=768%2C596&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.redcolombia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarna-7.jpg?w=824&amp;ssl=1 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>El padre Prias, sacerdote de la Iglesia del Rosario en Sogamoso, termin\u00f3 la misa conmemorativa con un contundente llamado a los colombianos a recordar que \u201cla memoria de nuestros muertos fortalecen nuestra lucha\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo escuches las mentiras de RCN y Canal Caracol, no dejes que te enga\u00f1en. Este es un pa\u00eds rico y no hay excusa para tanta hambre: son los ricos quienes roban el pan a los pobres. Rechazamos este crimen contra la gente porque Dios quiere una Colombia justa, donde podamos vivir con dignidad. Debemos hacer lo que podamos ahora: unirnos a las manifestaciones y huelgas de los estudiantes y los trabajadores porque otra Colombia es posible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>FIN++<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>ART\u00cdCULO en ingl\u00e9s++<\/p>\n<p>Fierce calls for resistance at the commemoration for those killed by paramilitaries in the Massacre of &#8216;The Sarna&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Paul Salgado<br \/>\nLa Red de Solidaridad con Colombia, Bogot\u00e1<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The elite long ago declared war against the poor, against campesinos, against those who resist crimes against the people. We are here to commemorate those who were massacred by paramilitaries 17 years ago, but this war continues. We need to keep the faith and to hope, because in a war, to hope is to resist, and a people that resists cannot be destroyed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The words of the priest were sometimes lost in the wind of the high mountain paramo, but those who had travelled the long, desolate road to reach this bleak, beautiful and lonely place, called &#8216;La Sarna&#8217;, in the mountains of Boyac\u00e1 did not fail to hear him.<\/p>\n<p>Father Carlos Alberto Prias was speaking at a mass in memory of 15 workers and campesinos, murdered by men paid to commit brutal acts of indiscriminate terror with the connivance, and the protection, of a state whose elite would admit no opposition.<\/p>\n<p>La Red de Hermandad y Solidaridad accompanied to the commemoration the families of those killed, and also 1,000 comrades and compa\u00f1eros from Congreso de los Pueblos, Asociaci\u00f3n Nacional Campesina Jos\u00e9 Antonio Gal\u00e1n Zorro (ASONALCA), the Asociaci\u00f3n Nacional de J\u00f3venes y Estudiantes de Colombia (ANJECO), and other community organisations who attended in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen years ago, on Saturday, 1 December 2001, men in military uniforms stopped a small bus that had climbed the winding mountain road from Sogamoso to reach La Sarna, on the 3,000 metre high plateau, and which was on its way to the small pueblo of Labranzagrande, still two hours distant amongst the mountains at the edge of the llanos.<\/p>\n<p>The paramilitaries ordered the driver, Hernando G\u00f3mez Garavito, to block the road with the bus, before shooting out the tires. After forcing the passengers to leave the bus, the men separated two children and an elderly woman, and ordered those remaining, including the bus driver and his 17 year old assistant, Luis Miguel Melo Espitia, to lie face down on the desolate road.<\/p>\n<p>That December morning, at the height of the paramo, the wind was cold, low gray clouds covered the rocky slopes of the mountains overshadowing the road and a misty rain silenced the air. Even if the skies had been clear, in this stretch of the paramo there were no other roads, no ranches, no hamlets &#8211; noone else to hear the gunshots that ended fifteen lives.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Angel Gil Orduz, 30; Mercedes Rivera, 22; Luis Arturo C\u00e1rdenas, 29; Isidro Alba Gu\u00edo, 54; Gonzalo Rinc\u00f3n Barrera, 30; Jos\u00e9 Antonio Mongu\u00ed P\u00e9rez, 52, and Herminda Blanco de Pe\u00f1a, 44, were workers.<\/p>\n<p>Abel Cudris Rodr\u00edguez, 52; Jos\u00e9 Bertulfo Noa Rosas, 50, and Jairo Isidoro Pe\u00f1a, 48, were campesinos.<\/p>\n<p>Tania Leonor Correa Pidiachi, 21; Jonh Fredy Poveda Bayona, 17, and Luis Alejandro P\u00e9rez Fern\u00e1ndez, 22, were students.<\/p>\n<p>Together with Hernando, the bus driver, and Luis Miguel, his assistant, all received a bullet to the back of the head.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years later, one of the terrorists who participated in the murders testified that a commander of the paramilitary death squad Autodefensas Campesinas de Casanare (ACC), had accused everyone on the bus of being an Ej\u00e9rcito de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional (ELN) guerrilla fighter, and arbitrary ordered their execution.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to declarations by paramilitaries who demobilised under the 2005 Justice and Peace law &#8211; which allowed terrorists to confess their crimes in return for light jail sentences &#8211; the murders were committed by the ACC as a show of force, in order to declare the road between the mountains and the llanos as &#8216;their&#8217; territory in a dispute with other paramilitary drug cartels, and with the connivance and protection of the Colombian military and police.<\/p>\n<p>After 17 years, the only man convicted of participation in the massacre has been a member of the Colombian state&#8217;s Military Intelligence Brigade, who was sentenced to 40 years in jail for supplying the killers with guns from the army.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence has suggested that another military intelligence officer coordinated the massacre, while a court ordered that a former commander of a Colombian Army Artillery Battalion, and also the local police, be investigated for allowing the paramilitaries free reign in the area.<\/p>\n<p>At the commemoration, families of those killed demanded justice, and to know the truth about why their relatives were killed with the complicity of the state. &#8216;We want a Colombia that respects us all,&#8217; one of the victim&#8217;s mothers declared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Our territory is a land of peace, and we will never forget those who lost their lives unjustly,&#8217; Carlos Alberto Mongu\u00ed, from the campesino organisation ASONALCA, insisted. &#8216;The dead will not let us forget them, and for this reason, we have to organise in their memory.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>ANJECO organiser Jonathan Carmago emphasised that the impunity for paramilitary killers continues in Colombia to this day: &#8216;Guarantees from the state of non-repetition of such violence are violated when our social movement leaders are being imprisoned and stigmatized for their work right now.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Congreso de los Pueblos human rights defender Tatiana Triana urged campesinos and workers to &#8216;continue resisting and fighting for a dignified life, because the dreams of those who died did not die with them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Father Prias, the priest of the Church of the Rosary in Sogamoso, ended the commemorative mass with a fierce call for Colombians to remember that &#8216;the memories of our dead strengthen our struggle.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Don&#8217;t listen to the lies of RCN and Canal Caracol, don&#8217;t let them fool you. This is a wealthy country and there is no excuse for so much hunger &#8211; it is the rich who steal the bread from the poor. We reject this crime against the people because God wants a Colombia that is just, where we can live with dignity. We must do what we can now &#8211; join the demonstrations and strikes of the students and the workers because another Colombia is possible.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>FIN++<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;S\u00f3lo le pido a Dios Que lo injusto no me sea indiferente Que no me abofeteen la otra mejilla Despu\u00e9s que una garra me ara\u00f1\u00f3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/?p=6702\" class=\"read-more-link\">[more&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[335],"class_list":["post-6702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias","tag-asesinatos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.redcolombia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarna-1-e1544225546678.jpg?fit=671%2C360&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}