At least 54 Colombian girls sexually abused by immune US military: Report

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

At least 54 Colombian girls sexually abused by immune US military: Report
Mar 23, 2015 posted by Adriaan Alsema


US soldiers and military contractors have sexually abused more than 54 children in Colombia between 2003 and 2007, according to a recently released historic document on the country’s conflict. The alleged sex offenders have not been prosecuted due to immunity clauses in bilateral agreements.

The 800-page independent historic report was commissioned by the Colombian government and rebel group FARC to establish the causes and violence aggravators of the 50-year-long conflict they are negotiating to end. The document is to help negotiators determine who is responsible for the 7 million victims or the armed conflict between leftist rebels and the state while they are negotiating peace.

One of the scholars that helped redact the historians’ report, Renan Vega of the Pedagogic University in Bogota, focused part of this historic document on the American military that has actively supported the Colombian state in its fight against drug trafficking and leftist rebel groups like the FARC and ELN.

According to Vega, “there exists abundant information about the sexual violence, in absolute impunity thanks to the bilateral agreements and the diplomatic immunity of United States officials.”

Read more: http://colombiareports.co/more-than-54-colombian-girls-sexually-abuses-by-us-military-report/

[valerief]

1. I wonder how many boys, too. nt

[appalachiablue]

3. And how young they were. Degradation, awful.

[closeupready]

4. Boys and girls are both targets for sexual predators, there is no doubt.

Separately, can't predators be prosecuted by US military authorities, if not Colombian ones?

[Downwinder]

5. They can be but are not. Perhaps their superiors should

also be prosecuted.

[Trillo]

2. So much deception and hypocrisy.

[swilton]

6. Winning those hearts and minds!

[Fred Sanders]

7. No wonder all of Latin America has expressed support for Venezuela fighting a CIA covert operation.

[DeSwiss]

8. Well, what'd anyone expect?

The military of all empires and police states throughout history have always raped and pillaged wherever they went. Except in our case we call it: ''BRINGING YOU FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY.''

- But it's the same thing.......

K&R


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[Skittles]

9. can someone tell me why so many men want to fuck children?

seriously, so many sickos around

[niyad]

10. has anybody asked oxycotin rush?

[hopemountain]

11. it's a sick aberrant or distorted

perception of power, perversion, and sadism.

[One_Life_To_Give]

12. Should be chargeable under UCMJ

The bilateral agreements prevent US Soldiers from being tried in foreign courts without US Consent. But it doesn't exempt them from illegal conduct under the UCMJ. Just as we have seen with the Murdered woman in the Philippines.

[Xithras]

13. Until 2007, military contractors did not operate under the UCMJ

In 2007 Congress amended the law to apply the UCMJ to civilian military contractors working in all areas of US military operations. Prior to that, the UCMJ only applied to civilian contractors working in areas that Congress had declared war zones.

[Judi Lynn]

14. Colombian Report on US Military’s Child Rapes Not Newsworthy to US News Outlets

Colombian Report on US Military’s Child Rapes Not Newsworthy to US News Outlets
By Adam Johnson
Mar 26 2015

An 800-page independent report commissioned by the US-friendly Colombian government and the radical left rebel group FARC found that US military soldiers and contractors had sexually abused at least 54 children in Colombia between 2003 and 2007 and, in all cases, the rapists were never punished–either in Colombia or stateside–due to American military personnel being immune from prosecution under diplomatic immunity agreements between the two countries.

The report was part of a broader historical analysis meant to establish the “causes and violence aggravators” of the 50-year-long conflict between the government and rebels that’s presently being negotiated to an end. As Colombia Reports (3/23/15) would spell out:

In his report, the historian [Renan Vega] cited one 2004 case in the central Colombian town of Melgar where 53 underage girls were sexually abused by nearby stationed military contractors “who moreover filmed [the abuse] and sold the films as pornographic material.”

According to Colombia’s leading newspaper, El Tiempo, the victims of the sexual abuse practices were forced to flee the region after their families received death threats.

Other Americans stationed at the Tolemaida Air Base allegedly committed similar crimes, but possibly also never saw a day in court due to an immunity arrangement for American soldiers and military contractors agreed by Washington and Bogota.

More:
http://fair.org/blog/2015/03/26/colombian-report-on-us-militarys-child-rapes-not-newsworthy-to-us-news-outlets/

[Judi Lynn]

15. F.A.I.R. indicates this story is a news blackout here:

Yet here we are, over 72 hours since the Colombian and foreign press first reported on the allegations, and there’s a virtual media blackout in America over the case. Nothing on CNN, nothing on MSNBC, nothing in the New York Times or Miami Herald. Nothing in Huffington Post. Nothing in Fusion or Vice. Why?

As UK authorities and NATO officials stress the importance of clamping down on “false Russian” narratives in the media, perhaps our own media could stop providing a shining example as to why such anti-Western narratives are so often the only outlet for certain ugly truths.

Really sad.

[Judi Lynn]

16. The rape of a 12-year-old Colombian girl that never took place, according to US Army

The rape of a 12-year-old Colombian girl that never took place, according to US Army
Apr 7, 2015 posted by Alice Bradshaw-Smith

The United States Army has denied the 2007 rape of a 12-year-old Colombian girl allegedly carried out by their soldiers, in spite of compelling evidence and witness statements indicating the opposite.

The denial accompanied the announcement that US authorities will investigate the accusation that more than 50 girls were molested by members of the US military and employees of defense contractor Dyncorp in Colombia between 2003 and 2007.

The allegations against the US were highlighted by Colombia Reports last week through published extracts of a historic report on Colombia’s half-century long armed conflict.

In this historic document, scholar Renan Vega claimed that “there exists abundant information about the sexual violence, in absolute impunity thanks to the bilateral agreements and the diplomatic immunity of United States officials.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/the-rape-of-a-12-year-old-colombian-girl-that-never-took-place-according-to-us-army/

[Aristus]

17. Clint Eastwood's next movie: "American Rapist".

He turned one murderous, deranged psychopath into a "hero"; why not a whole bunch of them?

[Judi Lynn]

18. US army investigates reports that soldiers raped dozens in Colombia

US army investigates reports that soldiers raped dozens in Colombia

US soldiers or civilian defense contractors said to have sexually assaulted dozens in lengthy report on country’s decades-old internal conflict

Sibylla Brodzinsky in Bogotá
Tuesday 7 April 2015 15.25 EDT

The US army says it will look into claims that soldiers or civilian defence contractors sexually assaulted as many as 53 women and girls while stationed in Colombia between 2003 and 2007.

“After coordinating with Colombian authorities, we will initiate investigations into any credible allegations of sexual assault or any crime,” said Chris Grey, a spokesman for the US army criminal investigation command.

Colombia: is the end in sight to the world’s longest war?

The allegations resurfaced recently after they were included in a chapter of an 800-page report about the historical reasons behind Colombia’s 50-year-old internal conflict, commissioned by the Colombian government and leftist Farc rebels who are engaged in peace talks.

The author of the chapter on the role in the conflict of the United States – which has provided more than $9bn in mostly military aid to Colombia since 2000 – wrote that there was “abundant information about the sexual violence” by US servicemen and civilian contractors in towns near the Tolemaida military base in Tolima province. The alleged crimes have gone unpunished “thanks to bilateral agreements and diplomatic immunity granted to officials of the United States”, wrote Renán Vega, a professor of history.

More:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/us-army-colombia-rapes-investigation

(My emphasis.)