Teenage Screamer is beheaded in Colombia

A West Cork religious commun is in mourning after the horrific execution of one of their members by Marxist guerillas in Colombia.

Dubbed `The Screamers‘, the commune is based around a wooden-hulled ketch moored outside the picturesque village of Baltimore in West Cork.

Rebecca Garcia, mother of the murdered 18-year old, Tristan James, told the Sunday Independent she was stunned by the killing.

“I still can’t believe it. None of us have been able to come to terms with it,” she admitted.

Tristan and a Colombian commune member, Javier Noya, were kidnapped by the Marxist rebels of a faction of Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces.

The Colombian commune established by a British woman, Jenny James, in 1971 was based in the quiet Tolima region of Colombia near the village of Hoya Grande.

“Tristan was a lovely boy. He loved to help people and he was looking forward to coming to West Cork and helping crew our ketch,” Rebecca said.

“I am really afraid for the commune because the guerillas seem to believe their presence in the area could lead to spies infiltrating villages by pretending to visit farms the way our friends did,” she added.

Despite the escalating violence in Colombia, largely fuelled by the huge drug incomes derived from cocaine manufacture in rural regions, members of the commune felt they were safe because of the fact that they gave assistance to all causes.

However, both Tristan and Javier were kidnapped, then beaten and subjected to summary execution after a so-called military court-martial.

Both youngsters were beheaded after being accused of spying for the US-supported Colombian government.

Now, other commune members have fled Colombia and many hope eventually to make it to Ireland.

Members of the commune many of whose beliefs date back to mediaeval mysticism are known as `The Screamers‘ because of their belief that the so-called `primal scream’ or shout brings a person in closer contact with God.

However, the commune’s presence in West Cork in recent years has been far from uncontroversial.

Baltimore locals were unhappy at the publicity the group attracted when they first moved into the area more than five years ago.

“Oh, God, don’t tell me there’s more of them coming,” was all one local would say to the Sunday Independent.

Others stressed that the group largely keep to themselves, only travelling to local villages for supplies and material for their twin-masted boat.

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