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Colombia: 1. Please provide information regarding the human rights/security situation in Colombia generally, particularly in reference to extortion, violence and other threats of harm perpetrated by FARC. 2. Please provide information on groups targeted by FARC for harm/extortion/kidnapping etc. 3. Please provide information on the availability of state protection in Colombia against attacks from FARC. Is there a reasonable level of state protection in Colombia against FARC attacks and would protection be denied to people for a Convention reason? 4. Please provide information relevant to internal relocation to avoid the risk from FARC, including information on which parts of Colombia FARC is most/least active. Please also discuss the relative power/influence/presence of FARC in and around Bogota

20 April 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 1. Was an ELN guerrilla group ‘Frente Efrain Pabon Pabon' active in Santander in 2007/8? Is it active now? If so, in what parts of Colombia and who does it generally target? 2. What protection is likely to be available by the authorities from threats or attacks by this group (or, if information on the group can't be located, by the ELN generally)? 3. Are there any practical barriers to relocating within the country (to, for example, Bogota)?

19 July 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 1. Please provide recent information in relation to criminal gangs in Colombia and the prevalence or otherwise of extortion and kidnapping. 2. Are there any reports of threats or harm to civilians or business people who refuse to co-operate with criminal gangs in Colombia?

23 March 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 1. Please provide any available information on whether Soacha is a dangerous suburb of Bogota. 2. Please advise if Soacha is on the outskirts of Bogota 3. Is there information that, since 2003, the Colombian Government has made agreements with the FARC and has then reneged on those agreements? 4. Please provide information on the recent operation of the FARC 5. Does the Colombian Government currently struggle to provide basic services such as education and health to the people of Colombia?

18 November 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 1. Are there any reports of leftist groups asking civilians to attend meetings or attempting to extort money in Bogota in 2003? 2. To what extent are FARC or other leftist groups still active in Medellin? 3. Are there any reports indicating that FARC or other leftist groups still make demands for money in urban areas such as Bogota? 4. Are there any reports of a group known by the name "urban militias FARC-EP" or some similar name?

16 November 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 1. Please provide a description of an attack on protesters by the authorities (Anti-disturbance Mobile Squadrons or ESMAD) on 22 September 2005 at Valley University (Universidad del Valle - CERUV), including a list of the names of killed or wounded. Please include any eyewitness type reports with specific details. 2. Please provide information about ensuing, related protests, including about a protest at La Ermita church. 3. Please advise as to whether there was a national strike in Bogota on 22 May 2007? What was its purpose? 4. Please advise whether student activists were targeted in 2006 or 2007 by paramilitaries or the authorities? For what reasons were they targeted? Is there evidence they were seriously harmed?

16 April 2008 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 1) Give brief overview of any significant differences between the current security situation in Colombia and that in 1996, esp. relating to a) FARC, b) the FLSDC and c) paramilitaries; 2) What is the security situation in the town of Armenia now? 3) Are FARC or paramilitary groups currently forcibly recruiting young men? If so, what is the current prevalence of this in the Armenia area?

17 January 2008 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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