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Omar Moreno – a statement from The Landworkers’ Alliance and the ORFC

Omar Moreno – a statement from The Landworkers’ Alliance and the ORFC
14/01/2021 Abel Pearson

The Landworkers’ Alliance and the organisers of the Oxford Real Farming Conference would like to express our sorrow at the death of Omar Moreno. Omar Moreno is the brother of Aide Moreno, a leader in the Agricultural Union Federation (Federación Sindical Unitaria Agropecuaria – FENSUAGRO) of Colombia. Aide spoke on the criminalisation of the peasantry at this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference. We further condemn the threats and intimidation levelled at Nury Martinez and her family by Aguilas Negras – Bloque Capital paramiliary group. Nury Martinez is the President of FENSUAGRO and another speaker at this conference.

Between the date of the signing of the Colombian Peace Accords in 2016 and March 2020, 38 leaders of FENSUAGRO and associated organisations have been assassinated. In the course of these four years, 1,058 social leaders and human rights defenders have been murdered. Of the total number of victims, 254 have been killed in 2020, which means that on average, six social leaders or human rights defenders are killed each week in Colombia. 

We express our solidarity with the struggles of peasants and social movement leaders in Colombia, and reject and denounce these serious attacks on the lives and fundamental rights of those fighting for peasants’ rights in Colombia. We demand that the Colombian Government, specifically President Ivan Duque Marquez, investigate these events and bring those responsible to justice, and urgently take effective protection measures for peasant and social leaders who have been threatened and harassed by paramilitary groups.

We further demand that the Colombian government tackles the root cause of this violence, the power of large landowners and the expulsion of the peasantry from their farmlands, by implementing its commitments to land redistribution as stipulated in the 2016 Peace Accords. To this date, only 4% of the land that the accords mandated for redistribution has been given to landless peasants.

We also demand that the UN, and in particular the EU and its Member States, as guarantors and supporters of the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement, take immediate action to ensure that the Colombian government fulfils its responsibility to protect the peasant and social leaders under threat, as well as effectively fulfilling all the commitments set out in the Agreement.

We also ask European civil society organisations to highlight the seriousness of the situation surrounding the Peace Process in Colombia and to put pressure on national and international institutions to react accordingly. Drastic action is required to protect human rights defenders and the international community must intervene to ensure the necessary monitoring, follow-up and support to stop this massacre.

La Via Campesina has produced a series of Ceasefire Bulletins on the situation for peasant leaders in Colombia – to follow this bulletin, sign up here.  

In Spanish:

La Landworkers Alliance y la Oxford Real Farming Conference desean expresar nuestro pesar por la muerte de Omar Moreno. Omar Moreno es hermano de Aide Moreno, líder de la Federación Sindical Unitaria Agropecuaria – FENSUAGRO de Colombia, quien habló sobre la criminalización del campesinado en la Oxford Real Farming Conference de este año. Condenamos además las amenazas e intimidaciones dirigidas contra Nury Martínez y su familia por el grupo paramilitar Águilas Negras – Bloque Capital. Nury Martinez es el presidente de FENSUAGRO y otro ponente en esta conferencia.

Entre la fecha de la firma de los Acuerdos de Paz de Colombia en 2016 y marzo de 2020, han sido asesinados 38 líderes de FENSUAGRO y organizaciones asociadas. En el transcurso de estos cuatro años han sido asesinados 1.058 líderes sociales y defensores de derechos humanos. Del total de víctimas, 254 han sido asesinadas en 2020, lo que significa que en promedio, seis líderes sociales o defensores de derechos humanos son asesinados cada semana en Colombia.

Expresamos nuestra solidaridad con las luchas de los campesinos y líderes de movimientos sociales en Colombia, y rechazamos y denunciamos estos graves atentados contra la vida y los derechos fundamentales de quienes luchan por los derechos de los campesinos en Colombia. Exigimos al Gobierno colombiano, específicamente al presidente Iván Duque Márquez, que investigue estos hechos y lleve a los responsables ante la justicia, y que tome con urgencia medidas de protección efectivas para los líderes campesinos y sociales que han sido amenazados y acosados ​​por grupos paramilitares.

Exigimos además que el gobierno colombiano aborde la raíz de esta violencia, el poder de los grandes terratenientes y la expulsión del campesinado de sus tierras de cultivo, implementando sus compromisos de redistribución de la tierra según lo estipulado en los Acuerdos de Paz de 2016. Hasta la fecha, solo el 4% de la tierra que los acuerdos ordenaron para la redistribución se ha entregado a campesinos sin tierra.

También exigimos que la ONU, y en particular la UE y sus Estados miembros, como garantes y partidarios de la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz de La Habana, tomen acciones inmediatas para asegurar que el gobierno colombiano cumpla con su responsabilidad de proteger a los líderes campesinos y sociales bajo la amenaza, así como el cumplimiento efectivo de todos los compromisos establecidos en el Acuerdo.

También pedimos a las organizaciones de la sociedad civil europea que resalten la gravedad de la situación que rodea al Proceso de Paz en Colombia y presionen a las instituciones nacionales e internacionales para que reaccionen en consecuencia. Se requiere una acción drástica para proteger a los defensores de los derechos humanos y la comunidad internacional debe intervenir para garantizar el monitoreo, seguimiento y apoyo necesarios para detener esta masacre.

La Vía Campesina ha elaborado una serie de Boletines de Alto el Fuego sobre la situación de los líderes campesinos en Colombia. Para seguir este boletín, suscríbete here.

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