THE FREEDOM FORUM AND CONCORDIA as hotbeds
Walter Bolton (gap) *
The veiled threat received by journalist Roger Rodriguez, part of a "Lieutenant Colonel" retired to a climate incitement to violence. The Uruguayan Press Association (APU), reported the incident to the Ministry Interior, but for now there is legal action. The Home Office is preparing to further investigation regarding the Freedom Forum and Concordia, the APU after denouncing the veiled threats that were posted on the Facebook site pro-military group the journalist Roger Rodriguez.
Meanwhile, the prosecution service is pending further information to determine whether justice requests the initiation of an investigation to determine if criminal liability by any member of the Forum. At press time the judge on duty, Gabriela Merialdo, had not been notified by the Ministry of Interior or from police headquarters regarding asunto.Es Presumably, if the Home Office has an investigation with some sharing of Leadership, such as the group specialized in computer crimes must be reported to justice.
FACTS. On Friday 4 Rodríguez journalist published an article in the journal Faces and Masks, in which he explains the genesis of the Freedom Forum and Concordia and the operational structure reveals names and positions of those seeking to defend military prison or in danger of being imprisoned for human rights violations during the dictatorship.
Monday 7 in the wall (page) of Facebook's Forum, member Héctor González wrote Marcos Varela's full name Rodriguez, noting that "it is at times defamatory tabloid journalist Republic, in others 'private investigator-patent' and hearsay witness (when you leave), something has to live and that is their gigs." Then published the names of the parents of Roger, his identity card number, date of birth, last address (street and number) and your landline. He called other members of the Forum confirmed the location of the street where the journalist allegedly lived. Confirmation came soon after when a member of the Forum, Javier Bussi, published a map that included the street.
After publication of these data, a reporter managed to communicate with Varela González: "I finished my home to call someone who said he Montevideo.com journalist to inquire whether the publication of reference was to do a 'escrache', it seems that Serpaj is concerned. Just in case I am saying that the "men of honor 'do not participate in such techniques Marxists. Confirm the ability of some ways to find telephone numbers, "he said. Varela González, according to his profile on Facebook, is a retired military "professional soldier in the Nationalist Resistance", graduated from the Military Academy to the promotion 1975, "Lieutenant Colonel February 1970 to May 2000." Lives in Maldonado. Varela said after some media that his attitude should not be taken as an act of "intimidation" but as an "exchange of information."
"The idea is that people know where you live and where you work, suddenly needed to talk to him as a man so anxious," said Varela. This phrase was ambiguous and suggestive accompanied by other incredibly fallacious as that in the dictatorship there was no rape of women and child abductions. "For my comrades put their hands in the fire that none had a murderous spirit (...) there errors without murderous spirit, "said Metropolis Wednesday 9 fm (The Republic, Thursday 10).
As a first point on this fact, it may be noted that the military Varela González chance that data obtained on Roger Rodriguez. It is clear that they are in a file that this man reached with ease. "In whose hands is, what other names are, why there is such file?, Are questions that should be answered by the relevant authorities if it is a military or paramilitary file. And this can only know if it is investigated. The tools are quick to find out the Executive Branch and the judiciary.
In the last few hours a new group member, Matí Tate, said in the wall his suspicions about the data published by Roger would come from the journalist's brother, the Captain Hermes Rodriguez. And beyond conjecture, a few hours later, Varela Gonzalez said: "What we've confirmed is that the captain Hermes Rodriguez is the brother of the journalist. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1979, was deputy chief of Naval Fusiliers from 2000 to 2003 and still active. " Obviously, Varela Gonzalez has a great capacity for research, or good contacts who review the relevant files. The Forum is engaged in a debate over whether captain or not it was an infiltrator in the group under the initials UM, prompting the reply from the anonymous member who writes from Uruguay Militaria, while others, like the retired officer Gerardo August took to defend the Captain.
In any case, what is at stake from these facts are not per se the information sources of the reporter that the forum-but of course you want to identify hazards that may face Roger Rodriguez, his family and eventually to some sources, real or invented in the Forum. On hearing the veiled threat, Roger Rodriguez reported the matter to the APU, the same Tuesday, 8 issued a statement expressing "its alert the authorities of the Ministry of Interior about the situation," the journalist, "who received a threat for his work in the area of \u200b\u200bhuman rights."
APU under any circumstance reject the attempt of intimidation and threats against workers in the independent exercise of their task of research, expression and dissemination to the public, "he said. For his part, also delivered a message Serpaj publicly talking about "veiled threat" to the "personal security" of the journalist. The statement added that the attitude of the military retired "worries those who seek justice and truth in order to strengthen democracy." He recalled that the work of the community "has helped to clarify crimes during the dictatorship." "We condemn these acts and support the partner Roger Rodriguez. So we watch and we disseminate this note by all social networks, organizations, newspapers and blogs, "said the statement.
president of the Human Rights Commission of Deputies, Daniela Paysée, Gap said that at the moment is bringing history to eventually raise the issue at parliamentary level. However, said the first thing is to ensure the safety of journalist and move with caution in this regard.
MANUFACTURE OF CLIMATE. Naturally, the idea of \u200b\u200bmilitary Varela González is convening a escrache by those who defend the human rights violators against a journalist who has worked in clearing up cases of those characteristics. Most members of the Freedom Forum and Concordia want to remain anonymous, as several of them, are members or relatives of such members, can go through the courts in the coming months to be investigated and perpetrators of crimes against humanity as torture. Surely it is not only to avoid emulating the method "Marxist", but to keep the faces Hidden cameras. But the most complex of these facts is what can happen from these veiled threats.
almost never a violent organization eventually cutting-one explained what was meant by that claimed to be heard very strong in the context of an "end to which we would not ever come" (see Gap, 4-II-11) - announced which threaten someone. It is possible that the Freedom Forum and Concordia never reach the end of committing an attack. But it is well known that the creation of environments for that to happen is one of the subjects rather have learned many of the soldiers who support the Forum in the intelligence and counterintelligence courses they were taught in Uruguay and abroad, especially those in the seventies sponsored by the United States and had as a mecca the School of the Americas in Panama.
Several examples can be browsed in the world: leaders, journalists, judges who are attacked by individuals claiming to act independently, but, if that were true, have been receptive to solicitations explicit or more or less silent on certain groups interest. According to public statements, the retired lieutenant colonel Varela Gonzalez seems to want to have someone come to talk to Roger Rodriguez, "because it is a restless journalist" ...
* See this blog entry "The Serpent's Egg"
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