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"Mr President, I wish to follow on from what Mrs Doyle has said. Mr Gearóid Ó Loinsigh is a personal friend of mine and two years ago I travelled with him to Colombia. These people, who are working with a human rights organisation, were invited by the local farming and mining community to investigate human rights abuses in a particular area. As soon as they arrived in that area they were confronted by the army asking them why they were there, etc. Then they recommended that they stay in a specific hotel which was known to be frequented by death-squad personnel. Fortunately they did not stay there, but at midnight that night that very hotel was raided by death squads. Parliament has a duty to send a clear message to the Colombian authorities. This issue of death squads, of the paramilitaries, and of their backing by the Colombian authorities has to be addressed.
The UN office in Bogotá, which is co-financed by the EU, has on about 100 occasions issued recommendations to dismantle these paramilitaries. The Colombian authorities are basically doing nothing but paying lip-service to these recommendations. The UN and Amnesty International have both confirmed that paramilitaries are involved in about 75-80% of human rights violations in Colombia. It is about time that the Colombian authorities lived up to international norms, and Parliament should send a clear message that if anything happens to these two human rights workers then they will be held responsible."@en1
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