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Article

2 Feb 2017

Author:
Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians; Nnimmo Bassey, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (Homef); The Democracy Center; Global Justice Now and 56 additional signatures

“Public statement – to cease the judicial persecution against Miller Dussán and Elsa Ardila and in support of the Association of those affected by The Quimbo dam project (Asoquimbo), in Colombia”

2 February 2017

…Miller Dussán is a Colombian university professor and President of the Association of Those Affected by the Quimbo dam (ASOQUIMBO). El Quimbo is a mega-dam built by the Italian corporate energy giant ENEL-EMGESA, on the Magdalena river in the Department of Huila in southern Colombia…As a result of the above stated, the signatories below demand that:…Garzon Municipal Court in Huila to drop the charges brought as a result of accusations made by EMGESA against Miller Dussán and Elsa Ardila for the supposed crime of ‘blocking public roads in ways that affect public order’. We firmly believe that the legal cases being brought against these two environmental leaders are part of an overarching strategy of judicial intimidation, the final aim of which is to repress local resistance to mega-dams and other extractivist projects across the region…The Corporation, ENEL-EMGESA, immediately desist from the judicial persecution of leaders of ASOQUIMBO; withdraw the two charges it has brought; and withdraw its plans for building of any further socially and environmentally destructive mega-dams in Latin America…

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