Just found a speech given by Senator Paul Wellstone on a Colombian massacre:

[Judi Lynn]

MASSACRES IN COLOMBIA (Senate - July 14, 2000)


Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, I want to bring something to the attention of the Senate today. Even though most Senators are gone, I want to do this because I think it should be done in as public a way as possible. I bring to the attention of colleagues a piece in the New York Times. It is a front-page story, `Colombians Tell of Massacre, as Army Stood By.'

When you read this story, there will be tears in your eyes. I don't know whether they will be tears of sadness or tears of anger. I will read just the first few paragraphs:

El Salado, Colombia: The armed men, more than 300 of them, marched into this tiny village early on a Friday. They went straight to the basketball court that doubles as the main square, residents said, announced themselves as members of Colombia's most feared right-wing paramilitary group, and with a list of names began summoning residents for judgment.

A table and chairs were taken from a house, and after the death squad leader had made himself comfortable, the basketball court was turned into a court of execution, villagers said. The paramilitary troops ordered liquor and music, and then embarked on a calculated rampage of torture, rape and killing.

`To them, it was like a big party,' said one of a dozen survivors who described the scene in interviews this month. `They drank and danced and cheered as they butchered us like hogs.'

More:
http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/071401.htm