Bucaramanga, Colombia. Sunday, May 1, 2011
After two years of disciplinary and criminal investigations opened against the president of the UIS, Jaime Alberto Camacho, for alleged collaboration with paramilitaries, there is no progress.
student spokesmen Industrial University of Santander, UIS, consider the expulsion on 26 April of the student's degree in mathematics Lina Sofia Duran is a reprisal against them for their claims to shed light, so criminal and discipline, the alleged collaboration of the president of the school with paramilitaries in developing a "Plan Pistola 'against students with leftist thinking.
The student disciplinary process against Duran was initiated in 2009 for his alleged involvement in the closure of the university during the student protests were calling for the departure of the rector , Jaime Alberto Camacho Pico, then to make public a recording of a telephone conversation with an alleged paramilitary leader known by the alias of 'Felix'.
In that conversation, July 4 2007, 'Felix' reveals to Camacho Pico do a 'Gun Plan' against UIS students who "want to come up with things left, things are not going to bring benefit to the civilian population" and asks for a list Name the president is committed to providing. A month later came the first threat to students by paramilitary groups.
To Oscary Avila, delegate of the table college national security strategy is expulsion from the university to silence their voices of protest. "As soon as the conversation released students declare ourselves in meeting 14 permanent and disciplinary proceedings were opened between May and September of that year against students. Lina Sofia is part of the students who have been threatened and what we are seeing is that the students themselves who is threatening processes are removed, which suspended and expelled, "she complained.
At that time in college there were several protests and blockades, and the campus was closed on several occasions. Pico Camacho, told the newspaper Vanguardia Liberal in Santander, said the process originated "by a very serious flaw in the regulation typified undergraduate student" and noted that the student may file an administrative appeal against the measure.
While Avila criticizes the decision of the university, stating that "this student is saying that it alone almost closed the university", 5 young students are on a hunger strike in front of the UIS which, they say, will not lift until Duran is reinstated, you archive the proceedings against them and 14 other disciplinary proceedings.
NO ADVANCE RESEARCH:
Following the publication of the recording between Camacho Pico and 'Felix', a UIS professor filed a complaint with the Attorney General's Office. The process number 680016000160200905551 against the rector was at the stage of gathering evidence in the prosecution sixth delegate to the circuit criminal court specializing in Bucaramanga for the crime of conspiracy.
Against Camacho also has a peak at the preliminary disciplinary investigation being conducted by the Second Deputy Attorney Administrative Monitoring for alleged talks with integral of groups outside the law. " However, the last step of it was made October 29, 2009.
While research has not delivered results, threats against students follow. Currently there are 47 persons declared as military targets, as recounted Ávila. The latest threat came in January Gaitanistas signed by the AUC. This was communicated to the Prosecutor Vivianne Morales on February 1 this year by a letter further requested that appropriate investigations are ahead.
"THAT Compliance with commitments "
On 25 April, in a letter to Government spokesmen UIS requested to submit a report on the progress of investigations into the threats against beneficiaries precautionary measures and the "Plan Pistola 'within the university as was agreed at a meeting on 3 March in Bogotá to follow the precautionary measures in the UIS.
In the letter, also rejected claims that he gave the director of the Administrative Security Department, Felipe Munoz sobre cómo las Farc y el Eln se filtran dentro de las universidades por considerar que se pone en riesgo la vida de los estudiantes.
“Temo que estas declaraciones sean tomadas como un aliciente para que los distintos grupos paramilitares (hoy bautizados como las ‘Bacrim’) desaten operaciones militares al interior y exterior de las universidades públicas”, escribió Ávila en la misiva.
Publicada por: COLPRENSA, BOGOTÁ
Fuente: UIS students.
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