Free Colonel Plazas,
Arrest Judge Maria Stella Jara
and her Accomplices
On November 6, 1985, terrorists from the M-19 group, funded by drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, invaded the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, shot and killed dozens of people, set fire to the archives, and staged a trial, demanding the presence of then-President Belisario Betancur, whom they would “judge.”
Summoned by the President, Colombian army troops knocked down the doors of the building with tanks, killed some terrorists, imprisoned some others, and freed 240 hostages—all this happened at the same time that 90 other hostages were dying in the flames and in the crossfire, and the building was being reduced to a pile of rubble and bodies.
Four years later, the surviving terrorists were granted amnesty, and with the aid of their agents and supporters infiltrated in the Colombian justice system, launched a legal assault against the authorities, by accusing them of several crimes and attempting to destroy those who had not been vanquished by criminal violence through a character-assassination campaign.
They achieved some isolated successes through this effort, but their most shocking victory came on June 14, 2010, when Col. Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega, commander of the troops that drove the invaders from the Palace of Justice, was sentenced by Judge Maria Stella Jara to thirty years in prison, after being found guilty of the forced disappearance of eleven people, including terrorists and Palace staff members, who, according to the indictment, would have been removed from the Palace building, taken to the Army Cavalry School, and then murdered.
Immediately after signing the sentence, Judge Jara fled to Germany, claiming she had been receiving death threats, of which she never presented the slightest evidence. Indeed, she had far more serious reasons to flee the country. In prostituting the judiciary in order to use it as an instrument for political revenge, Judge Jara committed a heinous, cold, and premeditated crime, and she knows that if she had stayed in Colombia, sooner or later, she would have been the one sent to jail instead of Colonel Plazas.
Not only did the judge condemn an innocent, but she also sentenced him for a crime that never took place. Colonel Plazas, however, was not a victim of a simple miscarriage of justice.Judge Stella Jara knows exactly what she did. The eleven “disappeared” who are allegedly missing in the final report on the victims found in the Palace of Justice have never actually disappeared. The mortal remains of several of them are stored in a forensic laboratory atUniversidad Nacional (National University) in Bogotá (an institution full of people who support the M-19).
On February 24, 2010, Bogotá’s Caracol Radio Station reported that four of the eleven people had been already identified. Until the end of the lawsuit, Judge Maria Stella obstinately prevented the defense attorneys from having access to the report of the autopsy. Of the remaining “disappeared,” one (a woman) was returned by the University to her family, but the judge never accepted to at least diminish the official number of “disappearances” from eleven to ten. Another one died in 1986, a year after the military action, and was buried at Cementerio del Sur (South Cemetery) in Bogotá, but the testimony of the gravedigger who buried her was ignored by the judge. The Colombian Army repeatedly indicated the place where three others are buried, but the judge never allowed their bodies to be exhumed. One of the girls who could be seen in the photos of the rescue was also listed as “disappeared,” but soon afterwards a lady appeared on TV stating that the person in those images was no one else but herself. The judge, to intimidate her, requested that she should be investigated for “false testimony,” changing the subject when nothing could be proved against the honesty of the lady’s statement. Now, if we redo the calculations taking all these facts into account, how many of the “disappeared” are left? One. And the judge never allowed anyone to verify whether this person is or is not one of those in the forensic laboratory of the National University. The Colonel was convicted for a crime that never happened.
To give the impression that a crime did happen, the judge, in addition to blocking access to evidence, made use of several shamelessly false testimonies. The chief witness who claimed to have seen the transfer of the “disappeared” to the Cavalry School is former Army Corporal Tirso Saenz, who said he had participated in the military recapture of the Palace, but it has been found out that he could never have been there because at that time he was in jail— and here is the height of irony—for false testimony! Later he himself denied his statement, but the judge did not budge at all: in order to condemn Colonel Plazas, any lie is good enough, even if it is a lie contested by its own author.
A second crucial testimony was that of Edgar Villamizar, who, being in another city at the time, could not possibly have seen anything at the Cavalry School. He claimed to have been transported in a rush to the School by a helicopter, but, back in 1985, the Colombian Army had no helicopters at all. This man flew thanks to the powers of his mind.
Third testimony: Auxiliary Police Officer Ricardo Gámez claimed that he had participated in the rescue operation, during which he had supposedly heard Colonel Plazas order his men to kidnap eleven people. But he could not possibly have participated in any such operation, since he had deserted from the police in 1979.
Everything we say here can be verified in the documents reproduced at http://www.palaciodejusticia.org/ .
It is most evident that the condemnation of Colonel Plazas is the result of a trap set up by his accusers with the manifest connivance of Judge Maria Stella Jara. Among these stand out, for its vengeful viciousness and compulsive lying, the “Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo” (a million-dollar lawyers’ collective that defends the Colombian narco-guerrillas), and Prosecutor Angela Maria Buitrago, who has been recently removed from office forincompetence. Voluntary incompetence, it must be made clear, since the said lady put hundreds of lawsuits on the back burner in order to devote all her working hours to the fulfillment of her ultimate dream: the destruction of Colonel Plazas.
In view of these facts, we the undersigned call on the Colombian authorities to initiate an investigation to determine and punish the criminal conduct of Judge Maria Stella Jara, Prosecutor Angela Maria Buitrago and the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective in this perverse lawsuit. More than the freedom of an innocent, what is at stake is the honor of the Colombian justice system.
Sign the petition / Firme la petición / Assine a petição / Signez la pétition
Felipe Rodrigues de Souza,
brazil, ,
Libertem o Coronel Plaza ! justiça já ! abaixo o narco esquerdismo !
María José Rueda,
Colombia, ,
Es increíble la indiferencia de la justicia y la sociedad ante este caso
Diana Moreno,
Colombia, ,
I want to claim freedom for the Colonel Alfonso Plazas Vega because I know about his integrity and transparency, and He is an hero that defended us against the terrorist grup M-19 and the principal reason We claim his freedom is because he is inocent and there are not any prove that compromise him.
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Colombia, ,
Justicia!
Vanderlei Dallagnolo,
Brazil, , www.primevento.com.br
Free Plazas Vega, now!
Ricardo Mauro,
Brazil, ,
This Judge should be condemned to prison for life.
It's Unacceptable that the Colombian judiciary system continue to ignore the basic facts of the case. It's a Crime against Humanity!
Gleyson Ferreira,
Brasil, ,
Pessoas como o Coronel Alfonso Plazas Vega não merecem passar por este tipo de situação. Ele está pagando um preço altíssimo por defender a Pátria contra terroristas e agora, estes algozes que se dizem "DEFENSORES DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS E A FAVOR DO POVO" conspiraram para que este não ficasse de estorvo e de barreira.
Todos os dias eu rezo para que VOCÊ e todos os militares e policias consigam se livrar de toda este jogo que montaram para vocês meus amigos.
Que Deus esteja com vocês, nunca percam a fé e um grande abraço.
Gustavo Stocker,
Brasil, ,
Carlos Souza,
Brazil, ,
Valter,
Brazil, ,
Rochelle D\'Abreu,
Brazil, ,
Zoodorgowcare,
Luxembourg, Zoodorgowcare, http://www.uk-karenmillen2012.com
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marco antonio justino de faria,
brasil, ,
Luis,
United States, None,
Márcio Vianna,
Brasil, ,
Atos de revanchismo terrorista como este contra o Coronel Plazas estão se espalhando como uma doença, que, como tal, deve ser devidamente remediada. Uma frente conservadora supra-nacional deve ser formada, e esta deve se dispor a rechaçar atos vergonhosos como esse. Enquanto isso, meus comprimentos pela a iniciativa de fazer circular a informação, é isso mesmo que tem que ser feito.
Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato,
Brazil, ,
Muito preocupante constatar que comunistas conseguiram se infiltrar em todas as instituicoes, contaminando a justiça não so' colombiana como tambem a brasileira.
Ivan pulido,
Colombia, ,
betopernambuco,
Brasil, ,
EUA must to clean Latin america from comunism
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Brazil, ,
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Brasil, ,
Infelizmente isto esta acontecendo em toda América latina,e temos que parar estas injustiças.
Antonio da Silva Ortega,
São Paulo - BRASIL, Professor,
ESTA CONDENAÇÃO do CORONEL PLAZA VEGAS É UMA DEMONSTRAÇÃO QUE O NARCOTRÁFICO E O TERRORISMO ESTÃO UNIDOS PARA PUNIR A NOSSA CIDADANIA LATINA COM O CONSENTIMENTO DE UMA JUÍZA INAPTA.
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Brasil, ,
marli,
Brasil, ,
Vergonha de ser latino-americana!!!
João B Santos,
BR, ,
Renato Grimaldi,
Brazil, ,
Eduardo Garcia Oliveira,
Brazil, private,
Do not allow be arrested men with life dedicated to
freedom and truth.
Maria Célia Silva de Oliveira,
Brasil, São Paulo,
Vilson Pereira,
Brazil, ,
Liberdade já para o herói Plazas Vega.
Hugo Machado,
Brazil, ,
Jorge Londoño,
Colombia, ,
Necesitamos una constituyente para hacer una verdadera reforma a la podrida justicia colombiana y sacar a todos los criminales cómplices de las narco-guerrillas y asesinos como FARC y M19. La toma del palacio de justicia fue un golpe de estado a la justicia ya que asesinaron a sangre fría a honorables magistrados y hoy esos asesinos ocupan el palacio.
Rodrigo Puyana,
Colombia, Promisión,
Libertad para Plazas Vega YA!
Gustavo Santiago Gomes,
Brazil, Exército Brasileiro,
Glory and justice to patriot fighters against the communism
Abdon Estrada,
United State of America, CAdm,
El Coronel Plaza es un defensor del pueblo colombiano, del terrorismo y el narcotrafico
Gustavo Barreto,
Colombia, ,
Hoy negaron por octava vez la libertad condicional del Coronel Plazas. Según esto los plazos de ley no aplican a los jueces del Coronel. Que "justicia" tan INJUSTA!!
Leonardo Costa,
Brasil, ,
Free Colonel Plazas!
He is innocent.
Sérgio da Silva de Oliveira,
Brazil, ,
Enough! Terrorists must go to jail! Communism is chaos and destruction!
Edson Alves dos Santos Junior,
Brasil, ,
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Brazil, ,
Freedom is a inherent estate.
Marina Morena Ohana Almeida Viana,
Brazil, Peregrinos do Amor,
Andres Ospina Stepanian,
Colombia, Home,
Col. Plazas, whom I have the honor to meet in person, is a real colombian hero, he deserves to be free and the real criminal narco - terrorists like Petro, Borja, Navarro, etc., must be in jail for a long time, long life to Col. Plazas Vega.
Renato T. Almeida,
Brazil, ,
Go out with the Komminterm and the Desinformation and Demoralization. Free all the heroes like Col Plaza, that defended the free countries against the communism horrors that reaped several million souls and enslaved free million peoples.
Nicolas Daniel Candioti Piocoppi,
Brasil, ,
Pedro Afonso Sampaio Pinto,
Brazil, UFRJ,
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Brazil, MSFN,
Italo Lorenzon Neto,
Brasil, Frente Integralista Brasileira, www.integralismo.org.br
Flávia Manduca Ieneck,
Brasil, , http://magalavia.wordpress.com
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Brasil, ,
The day will come when communism and socialism of the XXI century and their mentors will be wiped off the earth
Anti-comunist,
Brazil, ,
We must make justice and stop the hypocrisy concerning the 1960's government. Treacherous terrorists, sponsored by International Comunism, tried to take control all over the world, and failed thanks to army intervention. Now, after decades of cultural wars, these criminals fooled nations around and have been elected, seeking vengeance against the law. They must me stopped!
Cristiano Arruda Cruz,
Brazil, ,
!Los imperialistas de satán caerán a bala!
!Viva el nuestro heroe mundial Cel. Plazas Vega!
Augusto Cezar Silva de Lima,
Brazil, ,
É a tal inversão revolucionária. Os vermelhos continuam convertendo heróis em vilões, vilões em heróis. Estamos em fase de chamar o capeta de Deus e seus anjos de assassinos, é uma lástima. LIBERDADE A PLAZAS VEGA!!!
PS: Lembremos também do pobre Penã Esclusa...
André Fioravanti,
Brazil, none, none
Lá com cá, parcelo do judicíario de orientação marxista, e pior ainda vendido as FARCS
abner cambuim,
Brazil, ,
esta juíza tem que ser presa alem de todos que conspiraram esta fraude..
STAN BAARS,
Netherlands, ,
Uner Augusto de Carvalho Alvarenga,
Brasil, ,
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Brasil, ,
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Colombia, Militar,
Es más que justa su libertad, los presos deben ser los narcoterroristas del M19 como Petro, Vera Grave, Navarro, Otti Patiño y demás traidores de la patria, esos asaltantes mafiosos del palacio de justicia que hoy se prcian de ocupar altas posiciones en el gobierno pasado y actual, que no tienen vergüenza y no han tenido el valor civil de pedir disculpas a la sociedad colombiana todo por que son asesinos arrogantes sin escrúipulos y así se lancen de candidatos a la presidencia de la República, a la alcaldía de Bogotá, sean representantes a la cámara y otros segurirán siendo los mismos asesinos del palacio de justicia, así son vistos y seguirán siendo vistos por todo el pueblo colombiano; el coronel Plazas es un santo barón que merece la justa libertad; hoy ya conoce Colombia entera el complot que hizo la fiscal Buitrago y la juez Jara, todo direccionado por el grupo Alvear Restrepo y los narcos que continúan azotando a Colombia.
jaime Londoño,
colombia, ,
Daniel Antônio Montarroyos Malheiros,
Brasil, ,
Luiz Fernando Ramos Aguiar,
Brazil, ,
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Brasil, ,
Abaixo a revolução sanguinária!
fernando frascari,
brasil, ,
Marc Laurent,
Brasil, ,
Isto é um disparate!
Hermenegildo Barroso de Melo Filho,
Brazil, ,
Plazas Vega é um herói! Liberdade para ele! Cadeia para M-19!
PAULA SANTA,
Colombia, ,
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Brasil, ,
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Brasil, ,
My enemies are in power
Pedro Henrique Maitan Pelogia,
Brasil, ,
Aníbal Guerra B.,
Colombia, Movimientos de acción Civil., http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1270425797
Es una injusticia.
Gabriela Moraes,
Brasil, CONS, www.consbr.org
josé arimatéia b. araújo,
brasil, ,
Indignado
José Arthur,
Brasil, CONS, www.consbr.org
Que essa injustiça seja revertida JÁ!
Fernando Cavagnoli,
Brasil, CONS, www.consbr.org
Solange Igarashi,
Brazil, ,
Thierry Adrian Lehnhart Rabenschlag,
Brazil, Partido Republicano Progressista, www.prp.org.br
jjose henao bernal,
manizales, ,
Que liberen al Sr coronel Plazas Vega. Hoy en dia la justicia colombiana, esta en manos de àlgunos criminales que estan disque administrando justicia, todo esto con el visto bueno del Sr. Santos y sus secuaces.
Carlos Hernandez,
Colombia, ,
Leonor Parra,
Colombia, , Bogotá
El encarcelamiento y pena tan dura para el coronel Plazas Vega es la peor injusticia que han cometido los jueces de este pais!!!
nelson Ospina C,
Colombia, ,
HUMBERTO SANTOS OLMOS,
Barranquilla, ,
Una gran desigualdad en el tratamiento de la justicia, los verdaderos responsables están libres, y condenan a quienes defendieron la institucionalidad.
gerardo,
colombia, pensionados, neiva
apoyo
Juan Manuel Avila Palomino,
Colombia, Bogota, Bogota
ojala
alberto sanabria,
colombia, civilian, bogotá colombia
Luis Carlos Guzman,
Colombia, , clubdelpensionadodelasffaa
Aquí, lo que enfrentamos viendo es la violacion al debido preceso, es mas como entender la justicia colombiana, en donde los miembros del entonces M-19, hoy en dia hacen parte del mismo gobierno ocupando altos cargos diplomaticos, congreso ect. y los militares que defendieron la democracia hoy si enfrentan cargos ante la justicia. En donde está el derecho de igualdad, el debido proceso, etc?
Pedro Augusto Pereira Silva,
Brazil, ,
Joaquim Almeida,
Brasil, ,
Wagner Checato Mello,
Brasil, ,
JOSE RAUL MARTINEZ NIÑO,
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Bruno Fernandes Mamede,
Brasil, ,
Paulo Sergio dos Santos,
Brasil, ,
Marcos Ronald Roman Gonçalves,
Brasil, , http://mrrg-odontologia.blogspot.com/
Ixmael,
Brasil, ,
Pão e paz, justiça e liberdade.
Isso ficou parecendo slogan do pcc
- mas não é.
romney,
Brazil, ,
Belo Horizonte
Mauro Tosetto,
Brazil, ,
Abaixo o Foro de São Paulo!
Rodrigo,
Brasil, ,
Devis mutuelle,
France, , http://www.mutuellesmutuelle.com
Affaires à suivre !!! Que la vérité soit dévoilée !
José Basílio,
Brasil, MP Mato Grosso, Cuiabá MT
The human being can't accept that kind of crime!
Luis Alejandro Galvis Morales,
Colombia, Ejercito Nacional, San Mateo (Boyacá)Colombia
Como Sargento Mayor retirado del ejercito.,.,.,tuve la oportunidad de conocer a mi Coronel Plazas y de trabajar en La Escuela de Caballeria durante nueve años, cuando ocurrio la toma violenta del palacio de justicia me encontraba en el SINAI como integrante de la comisión de paz del batallon colombia Nº 3; como colombiano y como subalterno que fui de mi Coronel Plazas quiero brindarle a él y a su familia mi apoyo como lo deberia de hacer todo el pueblo colombiano que sufrió los horrores de la guerra librada por el grupo narcoterrorista del M-19, he insentivar a los colombianos a repudiar a los verdaderos autores de los crimenes cometidos en el palacio de justicia, cada uno de los lideres y milicianos q conformaron esta guerrilla, por que mientras mi Coronel paga una condena injusta.,.,.algunos de los pertenecientes al desaparecido M 19 se sentaban muy comodos en las sillas del congreso a hablar con sinismo de JUSTICIA cuando deberian ser ellos los q deberian de estar en la carcel pagando por la muerte de los inocentes que enpañaron de sangre los pacillos del palacio de justicia.
João Kannebley,
Brasil, ,
Thiago Vieira,
Brasil, ,
Enrique Nuesch,
Brasil, Universidade Federal do Amazonas,
