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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-11 03:48 PM
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1. What are the chances justice will be be allowed? Drummond is powerful,
their friends going all the way to the former Colombian President's office.

The Drummond brothers have been creatures from the black lagoon for years and years, sending so many innocent working men, all mens doing work these parasites could NEVER accomplish, to their hideous death, after the men were warned they were marked for murder, some of them going directly to Drummond to beg for minimal protection, at least, from the assassins.

Filthy ####s destroyed the lives of many U.S. workers first, before oozing their slimy way to Colombia to start life all over, raping that labor pool, and sending their ill-gotten product back to Alabama, to be bought by their old customers they already exploited while exploiting US coal workers mercilessly.

I hope the sky falls on the Drummond brothers.



Gary Drummond (left), the owner of Drummond Corporation, is a close friend of
former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe (right)


Drummond Accused of Killing Trade Unionists, Former Colombian President Uribe Called to Testify
News from Colombia | on: Thursday, 11 November 2010

A paramilitary death squad commander has revealed how executives of the US mining multinational Drummond ‘congratulated’ paramilitary commanders for arranging the assassination of two union leaders at Drummond’s Colombian coal mines. The court room admission, by now jailed paramilitary leader Alcides Mattos Tabares, comes just days after former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe was subpoenaed to testify in a civil case against Alabama-based Drummond for their alleged links to paramilitaries.

Mr Mattos Tabares explained how following the 2001 assassinations of Valmore Locarno and Victor Hugo Orcasita (the President and Vice-President respectively of the trade union representing workers at Drummond), two senior members of the Drummond management team met with the paramilitary commanders responsible for the murders to thank them for a successful operation.

Although one of Drummond’s former contractors in Colombia, Jaime Blanco Maya – the brother of the current Colombian Inspector General Edgardo Maya – has been arrested and charged in connection with the killings, so far no senior Drummond officials have been detained. But human right groups insist that both Gary Drummond, the US owner of the multinational, and Jean Jakim, Drummond’s head of security, were implicated in the murders and point to additional testimony from a former member of the DAS secret police who claims to have seen Drummond’s president in Colombia, Augusto Jimenez, handing over a bag full of cash to notorious paramilitary commander ‘Jorge 40’.

More:
http://www.justiceforcolombia.org/news/article/834/drummond-accused-of-killing-trade-unionists-former-colombian-president-uribe-cal

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