Today the three Irish neutral passport holders refused to attend trial in Columbia

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday December 03, 2002 12:35 by ipsiphi ipsiphi23 at email dot com barcelona

they think they will not recieve a fiar trial.

below are links to a variety of sources on Columbia. Bring these men home. They are passport holders of a neutral state and are being tried in a country with an appaling humanrights records. And that country is party to the international war on terrorism. Bring them home to castigate them if you will, just bring them home.

to start RTE this morning

Charlie Bird, Chief News Correspondent, reports from Bogota
28k - http://www.rte.ie/news/2002/1203/morningireland/morningireland1a.ram

Malcolm Deeze of the Latin American Centre at Oxford University
discusses
the issue of a fair trial
28k -
oxford university bod hums dumbly in a MI6 way.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2002/1203/morningireland/morningireland1b.ram

well I would follow with this site;
cia columbia

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/co.html
uincef columbia
http://www.unicef.org/statis/Country_1Page37.html
parties to the conflict.
http://www.web.net/eln/News/news.html
bbc on FARC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1746777.stm
bbc on AUC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1746943.stm
human rights watch on Columbia.
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/colombia/

note hjow out of date most of the BBC info is.
dumbly humming.