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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Thu Sep 15, 2016, 10:27 PM Sep 2016

Colombia accepts role in 1980s killings of leftist politicians

Source: Associated Press

Colombia accepts role in 1980s killings of leftist politicians
Fri Sep 16, 2016 | 2:49am BST

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday acknowledged the state's responsibility in the killing of thousands of members of a leftist political party three decades ago and pledged to prevent such assassinations again.

Santos' statement comes less than two weeks before he will sign a peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), whose members were killed following a previous peace agreement in the mid 1980s when they formed the Patriotic Union (UP) political party.

Some 5,000 UP members and supporters were killed by right-wing paramilitary groups, often working with state backing.

"That tragedy should never have happened, and we must recognise that the government didn't take sufficient measures to impede and prevent the assassinations, attacks and other violations even though there was evidence the persecution was taking place," Santos said during an event where 200 survivors and family members of UP victims were present.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-colombia-rebels-idUKKCN11M04C?rpc=401

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Colombia accepts role in 1980s killings of leftist politicians (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2016 OP

Wow.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2016 #1

Wow. Those people are going to be in for a rude awakening if they ever have to learn the truth. Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #2

I look forward to the day when America gets fed up with the propaganda..... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2016 #3

K&R. (nt) enough Sep 2016 #4

Yet another reason Texano78704 Sep 2016 #5

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

1. Wow....

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Sep 15, 2016, 11:32 PM

Sep 2016

I've had arguments in the past with right-wing assholes who refused to accept the idea that a right-wing government could be anything other than a utopia.

The slaughter of union leaders in Columbia was one of my examples that has been dismissed as nonsense.

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)

2. Wow. Those people are going to be in for a rude awakening if they ever have to learn the truth.

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 02:52 AM

Sep 2016

All they have to do to affirm their beliefs, you could tell them, is to do their homework, invest in a little research. My god.

If they had any idea how wildly deeply in the dark they are, they would be ashamed to ever bring it up to you again.