According to Wikileaks, a Colombian official admitted that “false positives” was a common

According to Wikileaks, a Colombian official admitted that “false positives” was a common
Sunday, December 19th, 2010 | Posted by admin

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Text of the publication :

Extrajudicial executions of civilians by members of the Colombian Army who later had their victims as guerrillas killed in combat to inflate the numbers of “false positives” were not an isolated crime and timely in the Colombia of Alvaro Uribe, but a “phenomenon widespread. “

This was admitted to the U.S. ambassador, William Brownfield, the general appointed by the Ministry of Defence to investigate such crimes, as revealed by Wikileaks cables.

In a diplomatic dispatch entitled human rights initiatives are military resistance, Brownfield says what he has told Maj. Gen. Carlos Suarez, inspector general appointed by the Minister of Defense and now president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, to investigate such crimes .

According to the story of the ambassador, Smith not hesitate to describe the extrajudicial executions of “widespread” and stressed that the then army commander, Gen. Oscar Gonzalez, opposes his research and has “tried to intimidate witnesses to from testifying. ”

More:
http://www.goodmorningcolombia.com/?p=9521

African citizens, poor farmers, small villagers, and their children, tortures, mutilations using chain saws on the living, bodies being sawed or hacked apart while the person still lives, men, women, young and old, children, MOST of it conducted by the right-wing paramilitary narcotrafficking death squads with direct connections and cooperative ventures with the government, like Colombians? Even mass graves scattered throughout the country? Ovens constructed to handle the overflow of bodies after massacres? Bodies floating down the streams if the death squads don't gut them, and fill them with enough rocks to sink?

There's a Colombian woman who has spent her adult life standing by the water every damned day, sometimes in the company of her husband, and they try to snag the bodies and bring them out so they can be returned to the families and given proper burials. There was a major story written about her by a large newspaper which I posted here in the last year or two. Very intense, of course.

Maybe Venezuela should have a record like Colombia's, with the WORLD'S SECOND LARGEST DISPLACED POPULATION, second only to Sudan's.

Certainly, that would be pretty damned peachy, wouldn't it?

But your post made why the path that Venezuela is on is so much better than than one Colombia is on very clear.

Yet we continue to give Colombia billions of dollars to kill unarmed people, and conduct a war against Venezuela.

First do no harm--to the wealthy.

Fuck everyone else as necessary.