Reply #4: Once DU'ers read enough of this pathetic event, no amount of spin

[Judi Lynn]

will dissaude them. All that's missing is the investment of time! More:

Steel Workers to Attack Drummond Coal Co. Role in Columbian Unionists' Murders
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

(Press Associates, Inc.)
By Mark Gruenberg

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. --The Steel Workers, aiding
their Colombian union brethren, will attack the role
of Alabama-based Drummond Coal Co., in murders of
three top union leaders at Drummond’s La Loma mine in
the South American nation.

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One link, the witnesses told the lawmakers, is that
Drummond knew about the killers’ plans, and did
nothing, even when the unionists asked for the same
protection--such as sleeping in the guarded barracks
at the mine--the company gives its Colombian on-site
managers.

“As became apparent shortly after the killings, the
Drummond Co. was well aware of the threats posed by
Right Wing paramilitaries in the region,” Kovalik
testified. Drummond denied the union leaders’
requests for protection, and instead said “they hoped
the (Colombian) government, and in particular the
agency known as the DAS”--a special security
service--“would be able to assist them with their
concerns."

Kovalik, quoting the DAS chief’s affidavit, said the
president of Drummond’s Colombian subsidiary “handed a
suitcase full of cash” to the leader of the
most-prominent paramilitary group, AUC, and “openly
stated the money was in exchange for murdering” the
first two union leaders at La Loma mine, Locarno and
Orcasita. AUC murdered all three.

“Drummond’s leaving the fate of its workers to the DAS
was tragically ironic, for in early 2006, the DAS
itself was collaborating with right-wing
paramilitaries to have trade unionists killed,”
Kovalik said. “Indeed, according to former DAS
intelligence officer Rafael Garcia, the DAS was
keeping and providing the paramilitaries with a list
of trade unionists it wanted them to kill.”
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