US military aid to Colombia had a ‘significant impact’ on increased extrajudicial killings by Armed

US military aid to Colombia had a ‘significant impact’ on increased extrajudicial killings by Armed Forces
Jun 20, 2014 posted by Oliver Sheldon

Military aid provided by the United States to Colombia between 2000 and 2010 had a significant impact on the increase in cases over the extrajudicial killings of civilians by the army, known as “false positives,” according to a report released Thursday.

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and the Colombia-Europe-United States Coordination (CCEEU) conducted this research, released on Thursday by the Lawyers Collective Jose Alvear Restrepo, who seek to “defend and promote human rights and the rights of peoples (…) in order to contribute to the fight against impunity.”

The report states that it is an “attempt to understand what role was played (if any at all) by security assistance of the United States in the rise and fall of extrajudicial killings committed under the name of “false positives” by the Colombian Army during the period 2000-2010.”

The report revealed that “there is a correlation between army brigades that received a medium level of US assistance with extrajudicial executions.”

According to testimony from military leaders, the positive correlation can be explained by the fact that there was an established policy to produce inflated kill-counts so as not to miss out on US aid. As a result, military units engaged in the extrajudicial killings of civilians, which they subsequently presented as guerrillas killed in combat.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/us-military-aid-colombia-significant-impact-increase-extrajudicial-killings-armed-forces/

"False positives" is a remarkable euphemism meant to conceal the act of murdering innocent people and pretending they were rebels taken in war.