The Bogotá-based women's human rights organization Corporación Sisma Mujerreceived an e-mail death threat on 27 January, from the paramilitary group Central Bloc of the Black Eagles Truth and Death (Bloque Central de las Aguilas Negras Verdad y Muerte). The threat was also addressed to other human rights organizations, mainly those working with people forced to flee their homes by the internal armed conflict.
The email read: "…We continue to declare as military targets and [sic] elimination plan against those guerrilla leaders who hide behind the facade of NGOs and organizations of displaced people and those who help you under the banner of the human rights paradigm and who hinder the government's policies"(… Continuamos declarandolos objetivo militar y [sic] plan de eliminación contra los líderes guerrilleros que se cubren el rostro con la fachada de ONG y Organizaciones de desplazados y quines les ayudan bajo el paradigma de defensores de derechos humanos y quienes obstaculizan la politica del gobierno)
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