metalero
17th January 2007, 18:38
Amid anger and hope to find the truth about their disappeared loved ones, hundreds of relatives of victims of paramilitarism and state terrorism gathered at Medellin prosecutor office where fascist scum Salvatore Mancuso was giving his declaration in the middle of the "peace process, (created by his old friend Colombian right-wing president Alvaro Uribe), a set of laws guaranteing impunity for thousands of crimes against humanity, including chainsaw massacres, political genocide against the Patriotic Union and leftist activist, as well as forced displacement of poor peasants.
"More than 2,750 killings (http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/colombia/document.do?id=ar&yr=2006) and disappearances were attributed to paramilitaries between the announcement by the AUC of a ceasefire in 2002 and the end of 2005. Because of its limited mandate, the Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia, set up by the OAS in 2004 to verify the ceasefire, could not take action against paramilitaries who failed to abide by the ceasefire nor comment on government policy.
The government encouraged demobilized paramilitaries to work in intelligence-related activities, such as the civilian informer network, as auxiliaries in security force operations, as civic police, and as private security guards. This raised fears that the mechanisms that led to the creation of paramilitary groups were being replicated and threw into doubt the governments commitment to reintegrate combatants fully into civilian life".
The article from a local newspaper (http://www.elheraldo.com.co/hoy070117/nacionales/noti2.htm) from Colombia says,
The demobilized paramilitary commander accepted yesterday during the free declaration he gave at the prosecutor office in Medellin, his participation in 87 criminal acts, including massacres, kidnapping and arms traffick. He also recognized being the mastermind of 336 murders of identified people, and hundred more who keep unidentified.
He also confessed his participation in the MASSACRES (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramilitarism_in_Colombia#Massacres) at El Aro, Ituango (Antioquia), San Jos de Morrocoy, San Pelayo (Crdoba); Maralabaja y San Jacinto, Bolvar; Ovejas, Sucre; Chigorod y Dabeiba, Antioquia; Chivolo, Magdalena and some criminal acts in La Gabarra (Norte de Santander)
"More than 2,750 killings (http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/colombia/document.do?id=ar&yr=2006) and disappearances were attributed to paramilitaries between the announcement by the AUC of a ceasefire in 2002 and the end of 2005. Because of its limited mandate, the Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia, set up by the OAS in 2004 to verify the ceasefire, could not take action against paramilitaries who failed to abide by the ceasefire nor comment on government policy.
The government encouraged demobilized paramilitaries to work in intelligence-related activities, such as the civilian informer network, as auxiliaries in security force operations, as civic police, and as private security guards. This raised fears that the mechanisms that led to the creation of paramilitary groups were being replicated and threw into doubt the governments commitment to reintegrate combatants fully into civilian life".
The article from a local newspaper (http://www.elheraldo.com.co/hoy070117/nacionales/noti2.htm) from Colombia says,
The demobilized paramilitary commander accepted yesterday during the free declaration he gave at the prosecutor office in Medellin, his participation in 87 criminal acts, including massacres, kidnapping and arms traffick. He also recognized being the mastermind of 336 murders of identified people, and hundred more who keep unidentified.
He also confessed his participation in the MASSACRES (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramilitarism_in_Colombia#Massacres) at El Aro, Ituango (Antioquia), San Jos de Morrocoy, San Pelayo (Crdoba); Maralabaja y San Jacinto, Bolvar; Ovejas, Sucre; Chigorod y Dabeiba, Antioquia; Chivolo, Magdalena and some criminal acts in La Gabarra (Norte de Santander)