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.