Jaringan Advokasi Tambang

Mari dukung  warga Cibanas El Salvador  menyelamatkan diri dari represi pertambangan skala besar, atas dukungan aparat. Serukan penghentian kekerasan dan pembunuhan terhadap  masyarakat dan para aktivis anti tambang di sana. Serukan pemerintah El Salvador segera melakukan investigasi dan mengungkap motif pembunuhan Ramiro Rivera Gómez. Caranya?

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Mari dukung  warga Cibanas El Salvador  menyelamatkan diri dari represi pertambangan skala besar, atas dukungan aparat. Serukan penghentian kekerasan dan pembunuhan terhadap  masyarakat dan para aktivis anti tambang disana. Serukan pemerintah El Salvador segera melakukan investigasi dan mengungkap motif pembunuhan Ramiro Rivera Gómez.

Bagaimana Caranya? Mudah, Kirimkan draft surat dibawah kepada :
 (1) Mr. Rodolfo Delgado,
Head of the Organized Crime unit of the Attorney General’s Office, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
(2) copy ke Oscar Luna, Human Rights Ombudsman
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Jangan lupa, surat anda ditunggu hingga tanggal  10 Januari 2009, sampaikan pemberitahuan bahwa anda telah mengirimkan surat ke This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it dan This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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To :
Mr. Rodolfo Delgado,
Head of the Organized Crime unit of the Attorney General’s Office

cc. Oscar Luna, Human Rights Ombudsman


As a member of the international community, I want to express my profound concern about the most recent act of violence toward a community leader in Cabañas: the assassination of Ramiro Rivera Gómez. After being shot eight times in August, Mr. Rivera was under the protection of the Victims and Witnesses Protection Unit of the National Civilian Police.

The assassination of Ramiro Rivera appears to be another systematic act of violence that has occurred in Cabañas since June of this year: the kidnapping and brutal assassination of the activist Gustavo Marcelo Rivera; the death threats against journalists at Radio Victoria, the director of the Association for Social and Economic Development (ADES) and other community leaders in Cabañas; the sabotage of the broadcasting equipment at Radio Victoria; and the assassination attempt against the community leaders Father Luis Quintanilla and Ramiro Rivera.


I believe there is sufficient evidence to assume that Ramiro Rivera's murder and the other crimes are linked and part of a campaign to intimidate community organizations in Cabañas. It is alarming that the Attorney General’s Office under the direction of former acting Attorney General Ástor Escalante attributed these crimes to common violence, ignoring the evidence and antecedents that indicate the political nature of these events.

Therefore as a member of the international community, I now call on the Attorney General’s Office under the leadership of new Attorney General Romeo Barahona to carry out impartial, exhaustive and effective investigations of the assassination of Ramiro Rivera and all of these crimes in order to bring to justice the intellectual and material authors of these crimes and guarantee the protection of other community leaders in the region.

After the assassination of Marcelo Rivera in June, over 100 organizations in the U.S. and Canada sent a letter to the Attorney General’s office expressing their serious concern about the human rights abuses. Representative Jim McGovern of the U.S. Congress expressed the same concern in his meetings with Mr. Attorney General Romeo Barahona and with representatives of the administration of Mr. President Mauricio Funes during his recent visit to El Salvador.

I am sending a copy of this message to the Human Rights Ombudsman, Mr. Oscar Luna, who has shown a strong commitment to protect the security and human rights of social movement leaders in Cabañas.

Leaving these crimes in a state of impunity creates a climate of fear and uncertainty for the rest of the community leaders, undermining the advances in the democratic process in El Salvador.I thank you in advance for your efforts to speed up the investigations and I hope that there will soon be justice in these cases and that the victims' lives will be protected and Ramiro’s family will be compensated for their loss.


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