Pubdate: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 Source: Irish Examiner (Ireland) Copyright: Examiner Publications Ltd, 2000 Contact: http://www.examiner.ie/ Author: Charles Hayes, East Ferry, Midleton, Co Cork. SPEAK OUT TO SAVE COLOMBIA I WOULD like to add my voice to those concerned about the people of Columbia, a plight well illustrated by the situation Colombian Peace Communities and Fr Brendan Forde find themselves. Eschewing arms and asking only that they should be left in peace, these rural folk now see their members massacred. They live in mortal terror of Columbia's so called Malitia. Brendan Ford and what remains of the Colombian Peace Communities will have a better chance of staying alive if people speak out. While the Death Squads are an unofficial arm of the Colombian establishment, the Colombian Government itself looks successfully to the US for military support. The murderers of Fr Ford's parishioners are not merely militiamen. They are also the politicians and military bureaucrats of Washington who place guns in the hands of the killers for their own gain. - --- MAP posted-by: John Chase