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Colombia: Whether Jorge Eduardo Durán and Eladio Maje Martínez initiated legal proceedings against guerrilla sympathizers in La Plata, Huila (1996)

No mention of legal proceedings being initiated by Eladio Maje Martínez or Jorge Eduardo Durán could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

However, according to the Democratic Civil Resistance (Resistencia Civil Democrática, RCD), a group which reportedly brings together Colombians of all social strata who have been displaced by "narco-terrorism" (RCD n.d.a), Jorge Eduardo Durán Rozo was killed by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC) Southern Bloc in the Municipality of Paicol, Huila, on 23 February 1997 (ibid. n.d.b). Durán, who had served as mayor of La Plata on three occasions as well as a deputy in the Departmental Assembly of Huila (Asamblea del Huila), was travelling to a farm in the company of friends and La Plata municipal employees when guerrillas stopped the vehicle in which he was travelling, ordered him to lay on the ground and shot him a number of times in the head (ibid.). The report did not indicate why Durán was targeted by the FARC.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

References

Resistencia Civil Democrática (RCD). n.d.a. "Resistencia Civil Democrática." <http://www.ucin.org/rcd/rcd2.php> [Accessed 12 Mar. 2004]

_____. n.d.b. "Derechos humanos: Violaciones Año 1997." <http://www.ucin.org/rcd/hr/hr1997.php> [Accessed 9 Mar. 2004]

Additional Sources Consulted

Alcaldía de La Plata, Huila

Publications: Country Reports 1996-1998.

Internet sites, including: Amnesty International, Asamblea Departamental del Huila, Equipo Nizkor, Human Rights Watch, Noche y Niebla, El País [Cali], Radio Caracol [Bogotá], La República [Bogotá], Semana [Bogotá].

Topics: Militias,