In response to the Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's call to his ambassadors to ban the screening of Insurgency of the 21st Century, Australian activist groups have started promoting the documentary.
The premiere screening took place on March 6, outside the Colombian embassy in Canberra, Australia. This coincided with a national day of protest against state terror in Colombia.
Uribe and his supporters say their continuing repression of Colombian people is part of the "war on terror". Insurgency of the 21st century presents an alternative view.
Members of the Communist Party of Australia, the Socialist Alliance, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, the Search Foundation and several others gathered at the screening to protest against the continual violation of human rights in Colombia, and demand freedom of speech and an end the criminalisation of international solidarity.
Speakers reflected on the more than 7000 political prisoners, the 4 million internally displaced people and the assassination of more than 2000 trade union leaders in the last 12 years, all carried out by Colombian state security services and paramilitary forces with connections to the government.
Part 1 of the documentary Uribe doesn't want you to see. The full documentary, in 13 parts in Spanish, is posted on YouTube.