Potential Head Scissors

student murdered Carlos Andrés Valencia and police repression was unleashed at the University of Antioquia (March 2011). Video.

The University of Antioquia in its history has witnessed continuing violations of human rights, and in the last two years this situation has worsened as a consequence leaving death threats (06 March 2009 and March 10, 2011), murder within the university from a former student of law in March 2009, murder of student Carlos Andrés Valencia the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, shot on March 14, 2011 , and died on March 19, and a permanent marking and stigmatization of university policies to students who organize and carry out the assembly process, debate and opinion within campus. It is noteworthy that the University is militarized since February 10, 2005 with a permanent presence of police officers from national and September 15, 2010 the anti-riot police, in turn permanent aggressions have occurred had the university community by members of the private security company ATEMPI, as we can see the personality of Medellin.

On March 31, 2011, after the culmination of a student general assembly, which had tried a peaceful rally by the university, there is an isolated incident where a group masked student was present at the goal Barranquilla, after it is given a disproportionate attack ESMAD (Mobile Anti-Disturbance Squadron attached to the national police) that at no time sought to create a distinction between protesters and the university community , where he first took to the goals, gave entrance to the platforms, and it closed after college and began an onslaught of tear gas, stun grenades and stones students at that time were concentrated in the square Luis Fernando Barrientos, also has the use of armored vehicles, sometimes they nearly run over some students. Neither the intermediation of the personality Medellin was able to calm down the riot police, who for more than four hours in attendance at the alma mater and continued with the crackdown on the outskirts of the university in the surrounding streets, chasing any passerby who stopped to observe the situation that moment occurred.













The attack was so excessive that members of the national police on motorcycles chased people who were around the university, including assaulting minors in a nearby school, in such moments some people complained that police fired guns, making pick vanilla of 5.56, which is a weapon of war and IHL prohibited for use in the city, much less for such demonstrations.

is noteworthy that this type of income by the riot police to Medellin Public Universities using excessive force, are continued after militarization and closing of the University of Antioquia in 2010, where the September 15 happened something similar to what happened on March 31, 2011.

is disturbing that such incidents, which were used as a pretext for entering the security forces, are given a day after the rector general Martiniano Jaimes Contreras, manifest to local media that the " University requires a police presence inside ", as the first statement Alberto Uribe made the dean and the Academic Council Correa [1] , which reject violence presented, but nowhere in the statement refer to abuse of the use of force by riot police against the academic community. This same type of accusations have been made in earlier times, and post-closure of the university held on 15 September 2010, where even the central government rejected a statement by the personality of Medellin, which argued that the action performed that day students were peaceful.

In this context we can not forget that since 2009, she opened legal proceedings against student leaders, social activists, human rights defenders of the city of Medellín, which led to different stages the arrest of several colleagues and now, two years later remains open. This is in addition to general statements of the National Police Oscar Naranjo, who said: "There is a terrorist structure university protests " [2] , bringing with it a stigma and giving rise to legitimate public opinion nationally and internationally, arrest and detention of large numbers of students, as expressed in different communication media agency of the Colombian state security.

The current situation of higher education is well Colombian concern, both from the standpoint of financial, academic, as the situation of Human rights lives there.

All previous situation is transverse to the announcement by President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon, on March 11, 2011, which proposed a comprehensive reform of Law 30 of 1992, which is the general law on higher education our country. This reform aims to deliver the future of academic and scientific development to the needs of the productive sector and is a violation of university autonomy enshrined in Article 69 of the Colombian constitution.

Given the Really large rejection of the reform proposal by students, workers, teachers, academics and governing councils, which are beginning to stir large demonstrations like the one held on April 7, and the second half of 2011, the response the national government is continuing with a systematic process of marking and persecution of the academic community and this can see how all the media reported the news produced on the occasion of the demonstrations on 30 and 31 March 2011 .

Given the above national government responsible to the head of Juan Manuel Santos, the regional government at the head of Luis Alfredo Ramos Botero, the National Police General Oscar Naranjo, the head of policy in guiding university Alberto Uribe Correa, for violation human rights have now the University of Antioquia and the violations of the right to life, freedom of expression and integrity of any member of the academic community that may arise in the future product of what happens today.

organizations ask sisters and friends, comment on the current status of alma mater and make a permanent monitoring process on our situation, it would not be surprising that in days of killings occur or arrest warrants as a means to intimidate the movement that is fighting today the future of higher education in Colombia.

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