In Depth back to UNI In Depth home page 03/13/2008 Assassination of trade unionist in Colombia On March 8 Leonidas Gomez Rozo was shot dead at his home in Bogotá. He worked at CITI BANK and was a trade union leader who performed a number of functions in the Union of Colombian Bank Employees and in the Unitarian Workers Central of Colombia. His assassination took place after a number of threats had been received via email by various social and human rights organisations warning that the campaign against the members of the families of leaders opposed to the government would be intensified. Leonidas Gomez Rozo had been playing an important role in helping to implement the goals fixed by UNI in Colombia. UNI has sent a letter of protest to the President of Colombia and we would also ask you to send a protest message against this assassination and to demand that the Colombian government carry out a rapid and exhaustive inquiry and bring to justice the persons who ordered and carried out this new crime against the Colombian trade union movement and to ask that the necessary measures be put in place to put an end once and for all to the violence perpetrated against the trade union movement and other civil society organisations. A click and go message has been set up at http://www.uniglobalunion.org/uniindep.nsf/ProtestAssasinationColombia-en?openform En español: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/uniindep.nsf/ProtestAssasinationColombia-es?openform Thank you for your solidarity. ______________________ Union Network International http://www.union-network.org - contact@union-network.org