Lilia Solano

Estimada Lilia,

Deseo expresarle a nonmbre de la Iglesia Anglicana de Canada por medio del Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund nuestros mejores votos de buena ventura a usted y a sus colegas de Justica y Vida.  Nuestras oraciones estan con ustedes para una continua proteccion de sus vidas y que su organizacion reciba el apoyo solidario del mundo por el trabajo extraordinario que hace Justicia y Vida en la promocion de los derechos humanos.
 

Lilia, nos conocimos en la conferencia que realizo KAIROS el ano pasado en Kitchener-Waterloo. Le aexo para sus archivos las cartas que fueron enviadas tanto a la s autoridades canadienses como colombianas.

Saludos solidarios,

 

Jose Zarate

Program Coordinator

Indigenous Communities and

Latin America and Caribbean Development Program

The Primate's World Relief and Dvelopment Fund

80 Hayden Street, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 3G2 CANADA

1-416-924-9199, extension 240   Fax: 1-416-924-3483

www.pwrdf.org

 

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To: The Acting Attorney General, Dr. Guillermo Mendoza Diago,
Fiscal General de la Nación (e),
Diagonal 22B (Av. Luis Carlos Galán No. 52-01)
Bloque C, Piso 4,

Bogotá, Colombia

 

Dear Attorney General/ Estimado Sr. Fiscal General,

 

We are writing out of serious concern regarding Lilia Solano, director of Justicia y Vida.

 

She has received a shot fired at her office on July 21, followed by a threatening phone call on July 23.

 

So we request an immediate, impartial and thorough investigation to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

 

We also ask that your authorities immediately activate effective protection measures, in communication with Lilia and her colleagues.

 

Please let us and our colleagues here in Canada  know what steps have been taken. We are very concerned as to her safety and also the safely of those who work with her.

 

Sincerely,

 

Christine and Melville Johnston,

17 Dock St.,

Victoria , BC,

V8V1Z9

Canada

 

cc. The Presidente Uribe
His Excellency Jaime Giron Duarte,

Justicia y Vida

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Please see below a copy of a letter from our Pastor, The Reverend Rhondda MacKay sent to President Velez of Colombia concerning your situation. She has also sent copies to the Ambassador for Colombia here in Ottawa, The Hon. Peter Kent, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Latin America), to Genevieve des Rivieres Ambassador of Canada in Colombia and James Lambert, Director General, Latin American and Caribbean Bureau at the Department of Foreign Affairs here in Ottawa.
 
Dear Presidente Velez,
It has come to my attention that Lilia Solano, a human rights worker who has visited Canada has received threatening phone calls and had a shot fired at her office on July 21st.
 
Please launch an investigation and activate appropriate protective measures to assure her safety.
 
I look forward to hearing that this has been done.
 
Sincerely,
 
(The Reverend) Rhondda MacKay

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