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[Tim Robertson]

Two More Trade Unionists Assassinated in Colombia


7 July 2010: The trade union world is again in mourning after the
assassination of two more trade unionists in Colombia. The ITUC, together
with its Colombia affiliates the CUT, the CGT and the CTC, has roundly
condemned the murders, expressing its deep shock at the news of the killing
of Nelson Camacho González, a member of the oil industry’s united workers’
union USO (Unión Sindical Obrera) and of Ibio Efrén Caicedo, an activist
from the Antioquia teachers’ association ADIDA (Asociación de Institutores
de Antioquia).

Ibio Efrén Caicedo, who had a strong track record as a trade union activist,
was assassinated on the day before the 20 June presidential elections. The
murder of Ibio Efrén brings to seven the number of unionised teachers
assassinated in Antioquia in 2010 so far.

Three days earlier, Nelson Camacho González died after being shot at
repeatedly at the bus stop on his way to work. The murder of Nelson Camacho
González is another in a series of systematic attacks and threats against
members and leaders of the oil workers’ union during industrial disputes.
The union has been in conflict with the multinational British Petroleum in
Casanare, with Ecopetrol-UT on the Andean pipeline, with TGI on the
departments of Boyacá y Casanare, and with Ecopetrol over various other
labour disputes.

In two protest letters to the Colombia authorities, the ITUC demands that
President Uribe and his government immediately initiate a full investigation
to identify and bring to justice those responsible for these two murders
that have further weakened the credibility of Colombian democracy.

http://www.ituc-csi.org/two-more-trade-unionists.html

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