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Klaralven

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Sat Jul 10, 2021, 06:34 AM Jul 2021

Mercenaries: the sinister export from Colombia's conflict

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He says that what happened in Haiti was a "typical case of recruitment" of Colombian ex-soldiers by private companies to carry out operations in other countries.

Colombian authorities say four companies were involved in the assassination.

A woman who claimed to be the wife of Francisco Eladio Uribe, one of the captured Colombians, said a company offered her husband $2,700 to join the unit.

Uribe retired from the army in 2019 and was embroiled in the "false positives" scandal investigated by authorities, in which soldiers executed 6,000 civilians between 2002 and 2008 to pass them off as enemy combatants in order to gain bonuses.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210710-mercenaries-the-sinister-export-from-colombia-s-conflict

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