The Huffington Post story wasn't sourced by the author listed, it was sourced by others who provided him the material, including a group in London. The following articles are from other sources, they do not mention US soldiers, and evidently there isn't a coverup since the site is being investigated by the government. Note the number of bodies is a large unknown, but the sites in the daisy chain (what I suspect is a FARC financed agitprop) are now mentioning up to 4000.
My conclusion? It's likely there are bodies buried at La Macarena. The number of unidentified bodies seems to be in the hundreds. Of these, the majority are FARC guerrillas. It's also likely innocent people are buried there, given the nature of these conflicts and the way an army behaves when fighting guerrillas.
To make sure the reader understands I'm even handed, I would like to mention that USA and British propaganda machines used the supposed existence of mass graves in Kosovo to justify an illegal bombing campaign and intervention in Kosovo in 1999, in which they, with their bombs, killed more than 600 innocent civilians and wounded thousands more. As it turned out, the civilians killed by the US and British bombs were far more than the civilians killed by the Serb Army prior to the initiation of the bombing in March 1999. Thus Tony Blair and Bill Clinton can be considered war criminals and if justice were to be served, they should be indicted and on trial in The Hague.
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From the LAtin American Herald Tribune at
http://laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=12393&ArticleId=328531"BOGOTA – Investigators from the Colombian Attorney General’s Office have found mass graves in the south-central province of Meta that could hold as many as 1,150 bodies of civilians and leftist FARC rebels, an official in the AG’s office told Efe.
The director of the Exhumations Unit in the city of Villavicencio, Nolberto Suarez, said that officials will go to the municipality of La Macarena in early March to investigate the reports of the graves local residents made to a non-governmental organization that defends human rights.
“We don’t know if there are only 20, 100 or the 1,150 bodies that one of the gravediggers said he saw buried between 2002 and 2005,” Suarez said.
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The following is from the UK government at
http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Commons/bydate/20100325/writtenanswers/part010.html . As you will see, the comment is a lot more nuanced, and the anti American hysteria seen in the daisy chain articles isn't evident:
"Chris Bryant: The mass graves in La Macarena were first brought to the attention of our embassy in Bogota in November 2009.
Our ambassador asked the Colombian Government, namely Carlos Franco, Director of the Presidential Human Rights Programme in Colombia, for information on the alleged mass graves. We received a reply on 16 February 2010, which I shared with Carolina Hoyos, a human rights activist whom I met on 16 March. According to Mr. Franco there are 650 corpses properly identified in their graves buried during the last 20 years. There are approximately 350 corpses not identified during the same 20 years. The burial of non-identified people at La Macarena's cemetery has been properly registered in the control books kept by the municipal authorities and the officers in charge of the cemetery's administration. We will continue to monitor developments in the investigation into these mass graves.
426I was dismayed to learn of the killing of Mr. Hurtado in the La Macarena region, who was President of the Human Rights committee of La Catalina. Our ambassador in Bogota raised Mr. Hurtado's assassination with the Director of the Presidential Human Rights Programme and the Head of the International Relations Unit at the Colombian Prosecutor's Office."
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The following comes from a Colombian paper
http://www.semana.com/noticias-nacion/alcalde-macarena-desmiente-hallazgo-fosas-2000-cadaveres/134485.aspx El alcalde de La Macarena, Meta, Eliecer Vargas Moreno, desmintió el martes la existencia de fosas comunes con 2.000 cadáveres de guerrilleros de las FARC y acusó a la prensa de exagerar la cifra.
"En este lado (es) donde se dice que había más de 2.000 fosas. Eso no es cierto, aquí lo que hay es un promedio de unas 386 desde el año de 2004", dijo el alcalde Vargas Moreno a reporteros en el cementerio de la localidad de La Macarena, mientras señalaba hacia las tumbas.
El burgomaestre acusó de "amarillismo" a un sector de la prensa y a "algunos medios internacionales", sin mencionarlos. Señaló que el objetivo del reporte era hacer daño al país y al municipio de La Macarena, ubicado a 275 kilómetros al sur de Bogotá, en el departamento del Meta.
Vargas explicó que en el lugar, aproximadamente de una hectárea, sólo reposaban los restos de unas 1.000 personas y de ellas, 346 han "llegado como muertos de las confrontaciones en la zona", sin que se les haya identificado.
"Y si vienen de la confrontación creo que son de las FARC", dijo.
Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) dominaron la zona hasta hace unos seis años, cuando el ejército lanzó una ofensiva sin precedentes por orden del presidente Alvaro Uribe.
Jesús Hernández, de 50 años de edad y sepulturero de la población, indicó a los reporteros que lleva nueve años ejerciendo el oficio y que se ha encargado de "recibir y sepultar a más de 300 guerrilleros, especialmente de las FARC.
Los cadáveres "llegan con sus botas y sus morrales y me encargo de sepultarlos" como personas sin identificar, relató.
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