http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/interviews/colombia141206 Comments for ""We still don't know where our relatives are", José Daniel Álvarez " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/interviews/colombia141206 <p> <strong><em>A terrible personal experience prompted you to become a human rights activist...</em></strong></p><p><strong></strong> I consider myself a victim. Before I was a human rights activist, my father and my uncle disappeared along with 42 peasants from the Colombian village of Puerto Bello. That is how I got into human rights. <em></em></p><p><em><strong>The US State Department human rights report notes evidence that even in 2005 &quot;tacit non-aggression pacts between local military officers and paramilitary groups existed in several regions&quot;. From your experience, do you think there is collusion between the government and the paramilitaries?</strong></em> </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/interviews/colombia141206" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/interviews/colombia141206">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/interviews/colombia141206#comment Creative Commons normal democratic society human rights insurgency José Daniel Álvarez terrorism Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:14:58 +0000 KVB Tharoor 17998 at http://www.opendemocracy.net