Colombia's security forces investigated for 3000 extrajudicial killings .

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Colombia's security forces investigated for 3000 extrajudicial killings .
Monday, 13 August 2012 10:45 Adriaan Alsema

Members of Colombia's security forces are under investigation for the extrajudicial execution of almost 3,000 civilians, the Prosecutor General's Office said Monday.

Until June 1, 1,882 members of the security forces had been charged with the murder of 2,984 civilians, a prosecution spokesman told Colombia Reports.

Since the scandal broke in late 2008, an additional 216 members of the security forces have been sentenced for the murder of 523 civilians who, after being killed, were dressed up and registered as guerrillas, said the official.

~snip~

The massive killing of civilians by the security forces forced former President Alvaro Uribe and his then-Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos to purge the military command while civilian courts were given jurisdiction over alleged "false positives" cases previously handled by military tribunals.



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[99th_Monkey]

1. Extrajudicial Killings. hmmm. Is that like a Prez having a "kill list"? ~nt

[Coyotl]

2. If the President does it it is not illegal.

Just ask Dick Nixon!

[99th_Monkey]

3. Well, hush my mouth

I almost forgot that US Presidents are completely above the law in every regard.

My bad

[Judi Lynn]

4. The squads approach poor farmers and shoot them in sight of their families,

or lure young poor men from the city to phony jobs outside the vountry, or even talk mentally impaired young men to leave their homes and come to a new job, and murdr them all. They dress their bodies in old uniforms, or put serious weapons in their arms, photograph them, bury them, and claim they are rebels killed in battle.

Sometimes they are buried in mass graves.

They have also been burned in crematoria scattered around the country.

This doesn't sound like the U.S. President to me, not yet.

Also, the Colombian President just past most clearly had an administration which passed the names to death squads, to militaries, of indigenous leaders, union workers, teachers, clergy who help the poor, political activists, leftists, African-Colombian leaders, etc., etc.

This is real, and not altogether funny at all. It has also been going on with full U.S. government awareness all these years as billions of U.S. tax dollars have been shoveled into the political machine of that country, a machine known to be deeply tied to the narco-trafficking death squads.

[99th_Monkey]

5. You pretty much missed my point

i.e. that term "extrajudicial killing" applies equally to both situations, the main
"difference" being that drones are more tidy than death squads, no muss, no fuss
for us, long-distance killings abroad from air-conditioned bunker in USA, generally
taking out scores of innocents along with the actual person being targeted.

Whether by Drones or Death Squads .. both are extrajudicial killings.

[Judi Lynn]

6. The U.S. is connected to both the drones you mentioned AND these events in Colombia,

as it continues to pour boatloads of U.S. taxdollars into a feudal system which is hell on earth for the poor, the indigenous, the African-Colombians, and for everyone who dares to speak against it.

When more U.S. Americans develope a sense of moral concern for the human race both hideous situations will be affected appropriately.

As it is, there is very little concern whatsoever for the effect these brutal measures have upon living human beings who have absolutely no where to hide from circumstances they have NEVER deserved. Primitive, heartless, and utterly soulless, this machine seems determined to destroy men, women, the old, the new to the world, and the world itself they should be able to call "home".

[99th_Monkey]

7. Well said

I now see we don't really disagree one iota.

Thanks for the exchange

[Bacchus4.0]

8. that's almost as much as the Venezuelan police commit in one year

http://en.mercopress.com/2009/12/07/venezuela-tackles-crime-20-of-which-committed-by-the-police-force

Venezuela tackles crime, 20% of which committed by the police force
Almost a fifth of all registered crimes in Venezuela are committed by law enforcement officers, particularly those most violent such as kidnapping and homicides, revealed Home Secretary Tareck El Aisammi.



I bet you won't see prosecutions though.

[Coyotl]

9. Great to see that Chavez is addressing the problem of police crime

Don't hold your breath for Honduras to do same!