The title of this text is neither emotional nor an try to influence the now undoubtedly efficient authorities of the USA—particularly its judicial our bodies—to point out solidarity with Colombia. A lot much less is it an irresponsible suggestion for them to have interaction in conduct that might be thought of interventionist. By no means.
This opinion column’s title is a forceful and unavoidable name for the northern energy’s authorities to meet their constitutional duties and obligations by arresting a extremely harmful felony towards humanity who has already been criminally denounced earlier than them for the nonetheless unpunished kidnappings of three U.S. residents and the additionally unpunished homicide of one among them.
It’s now simple that this particular person, Petro Urrego, has positioned himself as one of the vital outstanding and visual leaders of the continental felony left-wing initiatives referred to as Twenty first Century Socialism and the Puebla Group. It’s neither unintended nor coincidental that Petro Urrego—apart from being the principle ally, companion, and defender of the Cuban overlord ruling his Venezuelan colony, the additionally illegitimate Nicolás Maduro—was lately appointed interim president of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
Let’s evaluation his background. In 1985, Mr. Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego was sentenced by a felony court docket decide to 18 months in jail for being a member of an delinquent armed group linked to drug trafficking and chargeable for terrorist acts throughout Colombia.
On the time of his seize, this harmful particular person was in possession of a military-grade weapons cache. After serving 15 of the 18 months of his sentence, he was launched on account of decreased sentencing for training and labor. In different phrases, Mr. Petro Urrego has a felony document for terrorism.
In 1989, one other submissive Colombian authorities signed a “peace settlement” with the defeated narco-paramilitary leftist gang M-19, a terrorist group during which Petro Urrego was an lively member and chief. By Legislation 77 of December 22, 1989, and Decree 206 of January 22, 1990, a process was established—blatantly in violation of Worldwide Humanitarian Legislation (IHL)—to grant authorized pardons individually and by written request to the defeated narco-paramilitaries of M-19.
In March 2018, I found that Petro Urrego was by no means pardoned as a result of he by no means requested the authorized profit, and due to this fact the authorized penalties of his simple and irremediable felony document for terrorism ought to by no means have been suspended.
Based on Articles 122, 179, and 197 of Colombia’s still-valid Structure, as a result of this despicable particular person has a felony document for terrorism, he has been—and might be for the remainder of his life—disqualified from holding public workplace, getting into into contracts with the state, or working for elected workplace. I additionally found that, fraudulently and illegally, in March 1990, three arrest warrants issued towards this man for his involvement in heinous crimes have been canceled.
With Petro Urrego’s authorized standing absolutely licensed by the Ministry of Justice and Legislation of Colombia as a non-pardoned demobilized member of M-19 (see connected certification picture), in 2018 I exhausted authorized avenues in Colombia earlier than two excessive courts (Council of State and Supreme Courtroom) to demand that the legislation and justice be utilized to this man and to forestall him from even working for the presidency of Colombia, as he was completely disqualified.
Along with denouncing his everlasting disqualification from working for elected workplace, I constantly emphasised his compromised felony standing as a nonetheless unpunished conflict felony, a nonetheless unpunished genocidaire, a nonetheless unpunished felony towards humanity, and a nonetheless unpunished perpetrator of significant violations of Worldwide Humanitarian Legislation (IHL).
From Could by way of October 2018, I filed 5 (5) ELECTORAL NULLITY ACTIONS with the Council of State, one among Colombia’s 4 excessive courts. All of those well-founded and legally sound filings have been denied in document time and thru rulings missing authorized substance.
Despite the fact that the political bias of those excessive courts was apparent and I had already begun investigating methods to attraction to worldwide justice beneath the precept of UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION, I nonetheless pursued the subsequent obtainable authorized treatment in Colombia’s justice system towards this felony: submitting an INVESTITURE LOSS CLAIM earlier than Colombia’s Supreme Courtroom of Justice.
Unsurprisingly, and once more in document time, the Supreme Courtroom rejected this movement in a ruling that appeared to have been written by Petro Urrego’s protection crew.
Having reached the conclusion that no well-founded authorized treatment would ever succeed towards this particular person or his felony comrades in Colombia, I devoted the next years—till January 2022—to finding out, researching, studying, and drafting an INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT (ICC) towards Petro Urrego, as a result of his standing as a nonetheless unpunished conflict felony, genocidaire, felony towards humanity, and perpetrator of significant violations of Worldwide Humanitarian Legislation (IHL).
To draft and file the mentioned INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT (ICC) in the USA of America, I invoked UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION—an idea established by worldwide felony legislation to deliver justice to victims whose nations’ judicial programs are both nonfunctional or complicit.
To make sure this mechanism labored and that the justice officers on this nation couldn’t refuse such a novel and complicated authorized motion, I made a decision to incorporate U.S. residents who had been victims of Petro Urrego and his left-wing Colombian narco-terrorist gang, M-19.
After 4 years of labor, the consequence was an 800-page e book submitted to judicial authorities in a number of nations, denouncing simply forty of the nonetheless unpunished atrocities dedicated by Petro Urrego and his comrades within the defeated left-wing Colombian narco-paramilitary gang M-19. I say “simply forty (40)” as a result of the Nationwide Middle for Historic Reminiscence of Colombia has recorded greater than 5,900 (FIVE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED) atrocities dedicated by Petro Urrego—none of them punished to this present day.
How does one attain such a level of indifference and contempt for Human Rights (HR)? Beneath the supposed banner of peace, and with the pathological intent of legitimizing and granting impunity to their felony comrades, leftist Colombian political operatives and bureaucrats have created and unfold 4 myths that contradict Worldwide Humanitarian Legislation (IHL).
Attributable to area constraints, I received’t cite excerpts, solely title the myths and record the IHL instruments that disprove them so readers can confirm on their very own.
First Fantasy: Nothing in worldwide legislation grants any particular person the proper to violate the Human Rights of others, not to mention beneath the guise of a “social battle,” “revolution,” “civil disobedience,” “rebel,” “insurrection,” or “social rebellion.” Some IHL devices that affirm this embrace:
- Article 30 of the Common Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- Article 5 of the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
- Article 3 of Protocol II Further to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 on the Safety of Victims of Non-Worldwide Armed Conflicts (1977)
Second Fantasy: It’s completely false that any of the atrocities dedicated by these notorious criminals may be categorised as political crimes or offenses and thus be eligible for amnesty, pardon, or forgiveness. IHL clearly defines which felony behaviors can by no means be amnestied, pardoned, or forgiven.
These acts are categorised as Warfare Crimes, Crimes In opposition to Humanity, and Critical Violations of Worldwide Humanitarian Legislation (IHL). These offenses are explicitly listed and described within the following devices:
- Part (b) of the Statute of the Worldwide Army Tribunal at Nuremberg (1945) – Warfare Crimes
- Part (c) of the Statute of the Worldwide Army Tribunal at Nuremberg (1945) – Crimes In opposition to Humanity
- Article 50 of the Geneva Conference I for the Amelioration of the Situation of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces within the Area (1949) – Critical Violations
Third Fantasy: There aren’t any privileges, immunities, blessings, safe-conducts, or any doc in any respect that may stop the investigation, arrest, extradition, trial, sentencing, and punishment of conflict criminals, genocidaires, criminals towards humanity, or perpetrators of significant violations of IHL. That is established in Article IV of the United Nations Conference on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).
Fourth Fantasy: Particular person accountability for any and all crimes dedicated inside a felony group applies to every particular person just by advantage of their membership in that felony group. That’s, it’s pointless to show that an individual held or fired a weapon—she or he is chargeable for every little thing dedicated by any member of that felony gang.
This was established within the STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL OF NUREMBERG (1945) and in Article II of the CONVENTION ON THE NON-APPLICABILITY OF STATUTORY LIMITATIONS TO WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (1968).
With the definitions of those atrocities clearly established, and reminding the reader that beneath Worldwide Humanitarian Legislation (IHL) the potential for prosecuting, attempting, and punishing these chargeable for these crimes has no statute of limitations, I’ll now share what I’ve performed earlier than the justice system of the USA of America, extra particularly by submitting my INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT (ICC) with the U.S. Division of Justice, Civil Rights Division – Prison Part.
On Tuesday, February 22, 2022, invoking UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION and performing as complainant, though I used to be in Washington, D.C., because of the COVID-19 protocols then in place at federal buildings, I had to make use of UPS’s licensed city supply providers to file with the US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION – CRIMINAL SECTION, my INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT (ICC) in Spanish towards Mr. Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego. I’ve affirmation that the doc was delivered.
Subsequently, on Wednesday, Could 4, 2022, as soon as once more in Washington and once more unable to file it in particular person as a result of COVID-19 protocols, I despatched the identical INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT (ICC) towards Petro Urrego to the U.S. Division of Justice, Civil Rights Division – Prison Part, by licensed city mail utilizing FedEx providers. This time I despatched the translated English model. I’ve affirmation that this doc was additionally delivered.
The names and particulars of the nonetheless unpunished Crimes In opposition to Humanity of kidnapping and homicide dedicated towards three American victims that I included within the aforementioned INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT (ICC) are as follows:
On August 4, 1975, American citizen Donald Cooper, who served as Basic Supervisor of Sears Roebuck in Colombia, was kidnapped. Mr. Cooper, a defenseless, harmless, and unarmed member of the overseas civilian inhabitants who took no half in hostilities, was held hostage for extortion functions by the accused Petro Urrego and his comrades from the defeated narco-paramilitary Colombian leftist gang M-19 for eighty-seven days. The accused Petro Urrego and his M-19 comrades collected a ransom of greater than $1 million to launch Mr. Cooper alive. That cash was utilized by these M-19 narcoterrorists to fund the political social gathering ANAPO (Nationwide Standard Alliance), in addition to to buy weapons and strengthen their felony infrastructure.
Whereas he was held hostage, Mr. Cooper was subjected to every kind of indignities, atrocities, abuse, humiliation, and mistreatment. Together with this torture, Mr. Cooper was intentionally saved within the deplorable hygienic and sanitary circumstances that the accused Petro Urrego and his narco-paramilitary M-19 comrades deliberately imposed on their victims within the macabre «folks’s prisons» they designed particularly to carry their hostages.
At daybreak on January 19, 1981, Mr. Chester Allen Bitterman, an American Christian missionary linguist, was kidnapped and in the end murdered after being held hostage for 48 agonizing days.
After violently storming the Summer season Institute of Linguistics headquarters in Bogotá, D.C., a bunch of seven M-19 narco-paramilitaries, aspiring to kidnap the native director Álvaro Wheeler, in the end kidnapped trainee translator Chester Allen Bitterman, a defenseless, harmless, and unarmed member of the overseas civilian inhabitants who took no half in hostilities and who, sadly, occurred to be current on the time.
As Petro Urrego and his M-19 comrades publicly acknowledged, the felony, deranged, and extortionate goal of attacking the Summer season Institute of Linguistics was to take a defenseless, harmless, and unarmed member of the overseas civilian inhabitants hostage to ship a message to the world and to the newly sworn-in President of the USA, Mr. Ronald Reagan: The Summer season Institute of Linguistics, a pastoral NGO that taught languages and evangelized indigenous communities in varied nations around the globe, needed to depart Colombia inside thirty days, or else the American citizen could be killed.
Since neither the U.S. authorities nor the Colombian authorities acceded to the calls for of the accused Petro Urrego and his defeated M-19 comrades, after forty-eight days of captivity in extraordinarily degrading and precarious circumstances, Mr. Bitterman was murdered. His lifeless physique was discovered wrapped in an M-19 flag on a public transport bus.
Diego Ascencio, the accredited Ambassador of the USA of America to Colombia, was kidnapped together with fifty-six (56) different folks (25 of whom have been overseas diplomatic personnel). His captivity lasted sixty-one (61) days, starting on Wednesday, February 27, 1980, at 12:15 p.m. and ending on April 25, 1980.
The mass and extortionate kidnapping for media functions of this internationally protected particular person, in addition to the takeover of an internationally protected constructing—specifically, the Dominican Republic Embassy in Bogotá, D.C., capital of Colombia—lasted 60 days. The accused Petro Urrego and his defeated M-19 comrades demanded, in trade for releasing all their hostages alive (together with minors), not solely $50 million but in addition the discharge of 300 of their narco-terrorist comrades imprisoned in Colombian jails.
It is very important word that U.S. authorities, in accordance with 18 U.S.C. § 1201, are obligated to research the kidnapping of three of their residents and the homicide of one among them, as these are federal crimes. Part 1201 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code clearly states that «whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward (…) any particular person shall be responsible of kidnapping and shall be punished by imprisonment for any time period of years or for all times and, if the demise of any particular person outcomes, shall be punished by demise or life imprisonment.»
Moreover, and as established by the U.S. Division of Justice, hostage-taking (kidnapping) turns into against the law beneath federal jurisdiction when, amongst different circumstances, the hostage is a U.S. agent or citizen overseas or an internationally protected particular person (diplomat).
So then, can we agree {that a} sovereign, revered, highly effective nation with robust establishments like the USA of America can not settle for {that a} kidnapper and assassin—who represents the worst sort of unpunished criminals in latest human historical past—continues to stroll free? Or will we not agree on this fundamental precept of legality and humanity?
For the previous three a long time, the Cuban-origin globalist plague referred to as “Twenty first-century socialism” has carried out a macabrely efficient playbook throughout a number of nations, ensuing within the financial, social, political, and ethical collapse of many nations within the Americas—and now its goal is Colombia. These notorious and insatiable communists have additionally written the script to be adopted by the supposed “opposition leaders” within the affected nations—unscrupulous politicians who’ve been and proceed to be accomplices within the success of this induced calamity.
Fortuitously for the residents and buyers of Colombia, South America, and probably the world, what these notorious criminals didn’t anticipate when implementing their sinister playbook in Colombia was that their prized pawn—Petro Urrego, the fratricidal determine—had a deeply compromised authorized document that somebody may uncover and prosecute on the worldwide stage.
Now that I’ve denounced him, it’s exactly the impunity that Petro Urrego has loved till now that condemns him to political and, in the end, judicial demise. As soon as he’s not in energy as a result of he’s convicted of the felony expenses towards him, every little thing he did as president will turn out to be null and void, as a result of “in legislation, every little thing is undone the identical means it was performed.”
Though Petro Urrego has confirmed to be a grave and harmful regional risk to Washington and to all civilized nations on Earth, the excellent news is that it’s now within the arms of the USA Justice System to place an finish to this murderous, harmful, and nonetheless unpunished felony profession.
Within the case of this delusional felony, there is no such thing as a doable justification—political, ideological, geostrategic, or in any other case “politically appropriate”—to intervene or stop the rule of legislation, the applying of justice, the prevalence of fact, and the load of accountability from taking their course. And he is aware of this—which is why he’s so wanting to deliver Colombia right down to the extent of these damaged, foul-smelling transnational felony leftist cesspools like Cuba, like Venezuela (now a Cuban colony), and like Nicaragua.
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