Trial against 3 Irish men collapsing in Colombia

by m Wed Dec 04, 2002 12:12

Éire / Irlande is strange.

by Doubting Thomas Wed Dec 04, 2002 12:56

These men should be released immediately and be brought home to the Heros Welcome they deserve.

by robby - rn Wed Dec 04, 2002 13:31 rob_s57 at hotmail dot com Dungannon

Heroes? for doing what?

by Joe H Wed Dec 04, 2002 13:56

Even if they are proven innocent, they should not be given any sort of "heroes welcome", because all 3 have confirmed IRA links, which makes them scumbags.

by cleo mcwilliams Wed Dec 04, 2002 14:26

Joe h, stick to the facts and address the points made in the article, there is no evidence against the 3 irish men. They are innocent untill proven guilty, the law is the law, if the Colombian junta government has no real evidence to bring forward against these irish men in a LAW COURT, they should be released, and not held indefinitely but given the reputation, human rights violations and practices of some of these backward third world latin american junta dictatorships, where it is common place practise to disappear or arrest their own dissident or trade union activist citizens, this is all very well, but these 3 irish men are not colombian citizens, they are IRISH CITIZENS. The international community must step in to let the Colombian junta government know this is not how you treat IRISH citizens. They may have had links to the ira in the past, does this mean irish people with republcan links are not allowed to travel. The treatment of these 3 irish men under the colombian junta regieme is inhuman and unjust. The colombian junta government may think it is acceptable to treat their own citizens like that, to violate their rights to political expression, unionisation, and free association, by arresting, imprisoning, assasinating and disappearing colombian activist citizens, now the Colombian junta government think they can extend this inhuman, unjust repression to IRISH citizens. The fact remains that the Colombian junta dictatorship has no real evidence forensic or otherwise against the 3 irish men. In third world backward repressive junta dictatorships like Colombia, the 3 irish men are not safe in the prison, that they are in. Elderly Irish pensioner James monaghan, Martin Mccauley and Niall Connolly are being held in effective political isolation, in the right wing junta prisoners section of the prison, where their lives are under threat and in real danger from the surrounding extreme right wing junta militia prisoners.

by iosaf = o as if = i psi phi 23 Thu Dec 05, 2002 13:33

and read accounts of a riot which occured there in 2001.
Members of both AUC and FARC were ordered to attack each other, a bloodbath ensued with smuggled arms being used.
these photographs come from the Benetton funded Colors magazine.
wait for the first page to load, it is very graphic heavy the site, only 20 seconds should do it.
go to the grid on the left.
select issue 50.
about 12 photos in you will come to Columbia.
look at these people.
would you want any of your linguistic-ethnic-cultural-social-tribal-group there?
would you want anyone there?
whatever you think about the Irish prisoners, one can safely presume if you are reading this article you have thoughts on the present day prison system and 3rd world issues.
I say again the best way of extending debate in Ireland today about Columbia all her very difficult problems as the terror and oppression her people daily content with is to bring these three men back to Ireland.

by Jim West Tue Dec 10, 2002 02:01

The stupid arseholes are as guilty as sin. They were in Colombia to further instruct the local FARC terrorists how to murder even more innocent civilians more rapidly. Hopefully they will be convicted (Colombia is ridiculously legalistic), and jailed, where the Paras will undoubtedly cut their guts out. I will smile when this happens.