(6 Mar 2009) SHOTLIST
QUALITY AS INCOMING
1. Riot police standing outside Defence Ministry
2. Close up, riot police
3. Wide, protesters with banners
4. Women with placard (Spanish : "No more civilian killings in Huila province")
5. Various, marchers with pictures of alleged death-squad victims
6. Human rights activists talking
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ivan Cepeda, Colombian Activist:
"Well, it is a significant group of about 200 women, mothers of young men murdered by the army and the police. They come to the Defence Ministry with a very brave attitude to demand justice."
8. Protesters
9. Mirta Baravalle, member of the Argentine association Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo with protester
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mirta Baravalle, member of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo:
"As you see, it was necessary to be here with the victims of state terrorism because we have suffered it in Argentina and we know what it means to fight and to ask to put an end to all the injustices. That is the reason we are here."
11. Wide, protest march, zoom in to protesters
12. Various of people with the pictures of missing relatives
13. Marchers heading to the Attorney General's Office
14. Close up, protesters with placards
15. Riot police facing protesters
16. More people with pictures of alleged murder victims
17. Protesters outside Attorney General's Office
STORYLINE
More than 200 friends and relatives of people who allegedly disappeared during government crackdowns on dissent in the 1970s and 80s marched through the Colombian capital Bogota on Friday.
They were joined by human rights activists and representatives from the Argentine group, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who have long campaigned for more information about missing family members.
Many believe that those who disappeared were victims of police and military death squads and protesters have demanded a full judiciary investigation.
Ivan Cepeda one of the activists on the march said many of those attending were "mothers of young men murdered by the army and the police".
Another, Mirta Baravalle said she was on the march to show solidarity with fellow victims of what she described as "state terrorism".
Hundreds of relatives from the Huila department, where most of the alleged victims lived, travelled to Bogota for the protests.
The main march in the capital coincided with similar demonstrations in seven other cities.
All the marches were peaceful and no violent incidents were reported.
In Bogota, many marchers carried placards with pictures of their missing relatives as they walked to the Defence Ministry and then to the Attorney General's office with their demands.
The Attorney General's Office is currently working on more than 900 investigations into claims of army and police involvement in the deaths of 1,454 civilians.
So far 54 members of the army have been tried for similar cases, according to the Attorney General's Office.
Many of alleged victims went missing while security forces were engaged in a lengthy campaign against the insurgent group FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, established in the 1960s as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party.
It remains the largest as well as the oldest insurgent group in the Americas.
Government figures last year put its strength at 5-thousand plus, down from estimates of 160-thousand a decade before.
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