Edited sentence: Crimes Committed by the State.Further, venal law – suits have been based on “secret witnesses” who mostly work with military units imprisoning hundreds of leaders and social activists.It also exists because of the political, economic and social power, which large landowners and drug-traffickers possess, and because the government is weak, its hands tied due to legal proceedings, and because of the financing of electoral campaigns by drug trafficking.It also shows the hypocrisy of the government of Ernesto Samper.It is a heart-rending testimony to the drama lived by the Colombian political opposition.It is because of this that a petition or lawsuit is circulating in the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights of the Organization of American States.It tells the international community that it is committed to the defense of human rights when in reality more crimes are committed and other violations of human rights happen because of the actions of the official forces.More than 3500 leaders and members of the PCC and UP have been assassinated between 1998 and today.State terrorism has taken roots in Colombia, because there exists a bipartisan political regime with a history of violence and exclusion.The Patriotic Union and the Communist Party in particular are central targets in the dirty war.The actions of the international community and the daily struggle of the Colombian people for the right to life and liberty will successfully call a halt to the barbaric terrorism of the Colombian state.The crimes committed against the Colombian Peoples’ organizations are continuing within the framework of State-Terrorism:  It consists in a combination of various factors:  open police and military repression, the denial of political and trade union guaranties, regressive reforms in parliament, restrictions of the freedom of the press and the never prosecuted actions of paramilitary groups.The numbers speak for themselves.The targets of this dirty war especially are leaders and members of oppositional groups and of the union movement, also the spokespersons of the indigenous communities, of agricultural and suburban/urban communities, student activists and defenders of human rights.There exist several military plans for the extermination of their leadership.This is a lawsuit accusing the state of Colombia of political genocide.This is an incomplete summary of the crimes committed on a daily basis against the members of PCC and UP in 1996.Various prosecutors’ offices, aiming at the condemnation of the Colombian Communist Party, have initiated shameful political proceedings