Excerpt of People's Global Action press release

"The paramilitary along with the army are putting under siege the 
peasants of Congo, Conguito, Murmullo Alto, Murmullo Bajo and La 
Sierpe in the area of Batata, in the department of Cordoba. With 
the help of lists [of people to be killed], assassinations, 
threats and restrictions in the access to food, they are imposing 
a terror campaign that has led several families to flee, to 
abandon their lands out of fear to become the victims of these 
death squads.

The threat for us are not only the incursions that they have made 
to the communities, killing people, giving threats and burning 
down our houses; the fear for us is permanent, now we cannot even 
go down to the market to buy things for our families. In the road 
to Batata they have installed checkpoints where military and 
paramilitary threaten us.

We the peasants of this area are distressed by the wave of 
assassinations and because this situation seems to be part of a 
project that has just started, consisting on expelling us from our 
lands so that the state can take possession of them and the 
company Urra can continue its projected dam.

The paramilitary groups act coordinated with the army brigade XI 
of Monter'a and with the complicity of the mayor of Tierralta, 
Hector Acosta, land-owner and cattle rancher; also the electricity 
corporation Urra is participating; the paramilitary themselves 
tell us that we should leave our lands because an environmental 
park has to be created on the banks of the reservoir of Urra's 
dam, they have told us that the Urra corporation is funding their 
operation in order to use our lands without having to pay for 
them.

On April 11 the paramilitary/military went into the Batata area 
and after gathering and threatening all people, saying that they 
would burn down their communities, they picked some people and 
took them away; they are since then missing. They are: Vicente 
Salcedo, 45 years old, peasant and carpenter, father of five 
children; Juan Salcedo, 35 years old, peasant; and Ms. Enidia 
Monterrosa, 40 years old, mother of two daughters, who lived in 
the outskirts of Batata. After picking their victims they left but 
on the road they met Luis Prez, 50 years old peasant and father of 
eight children; they killed him by shots in the head.

On July 25 the paramilitary/military went again into the 
communities and after threatening the population, they killed 
Carlos Cipriani, a 35 years old handicapped man; they cut him into 
pieces and put them into a bag; they also assassinated Eduardo 
Hoyos, 20 years old.

On August 23 the paramilitary/military went into the community El 
Conguito; after taking everybody out and burning down three 
houses, they continued towards Alto Murmullo. On the way they met 
Luis Prez Arroyo, 25 year old peasant father of four children; 
they tortured him and cut off his head. In Alto Murmullo they 
simulated a fight with the guerrilla and killed Carmelo Prez. They 
later went to the house of Ms. Blanca Jaramillo, 50 years old and 
mother of three sons. They took everyone out of the house and 
shooted at them; John Jairo lost one leg and Moreno a hand. They 
pretended to be dead and nothing more than that happened to them, 
but the paramilitary burned down the house of Ms. Blanca before 
leaving, as well as the house of Rafael Prez, another peasant. The 
radio and the press said that they were guerrilleros who had died 
in a fight with the army." 

Source:

http://www.agp.org/agp/en/PGAInfos/bulletin4full.html