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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts)
5. Just like the crematories the Colombian right-wing paramilitaries (death squads use).
Tue May 26, 2015, 06:55 PM
May 2015

As everyone knows by now, these death squads, as per so many testimonies by paramilitary members, have worked closely WITH the US funded and supported Colombian military.

Here's just one post placed here already:

Dreyfus Donating Member (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 12:45 AM
Response to Reply #112

113. Colombian Paramilitaries used crematory ovens to kill their victims


I found today this hair-rising article about the pro Uribe Colombian Paramilitaries. As I know, Adolf Hitler used crematory ovens to dissapear death bodies. But I have never listened that he used it to kill their enemies or Jewish victims.

Next there is a segment of an article that appeared today in the Colombian Magazine Semana. At the end, you can see the link wher you can read all the rticle. Unfortunately is in Spanish. I had to translate myself the next segment. Just read it and I want you know that your taxes have helped to create all this terrifying history. Uribe, co-founder and main supporter of the paramilitaries, received from the US Government, 7 BILLION DOLLARS in 7 years. Most of this money was used for buying warfare and paying snitches; other money stopped in the Military Officer pockets. But an important portion of those BILLIONS, finished in the hands of the paramilitaries and druglords.

http://www.semana.com/noticias-nacion/paras-tambien-ten...

........Already inside the property, the former paramilitary described with details the property: “the first house was unfinished and beside there was like kind of deposit. Behind, like to 70 or 80 meters, it was working supposedly a brick factory. You could see 2 chimneys in the roof. In the entrance there was a first floor with a well trimmed and decorated garden. In the right side, there was one stairs and you descended like five meters. When you arrived at the end, you could see a huge oven, a kind used in industrial bakery.

The huge oven had a hermetic door, with the lockhandle outside. When the door closed, stayed incrusted in a wall metallic frame. It had very thick glasses, as armored. Outside there were 3 buttons. A red button was for starting to burn and the other two to graduate the temperature. Inside, the oven was completelly metallic and had like kind of a strong table with high temp resistances. Also under the table there were a kind of grills. To the sides of the table there were more high temp resistances. To the end of the room there were two electrical fans. They told us that we could not smoke. However, the air smelled like to pork chop burned. Only one person could fit inside the oven. The bodies were tied to the table. When the temperature was raising, the bodies were get up. A lot of people died before entering to the oven." According the calculations, in the week they were driven there between 10 and 20 people. And we had a procedure with them: "When they arrived with people in bags, we touched it so we realize if they were alive or dead" . And they told us: Leave them in the bags so they didn't throw away blood.

This is the legacy that Alvaro Uribe is leaving in Colombia.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=405&topic_id=33804&mesg_id=36212

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Posted by a wonderful DU'er:

Colombian Militia Boss: We Burned Hundreds of Bodies


BOGOTA – The erstwhile commander of Colombia’s right-wing militias said that his men systematically burned hundreds of their victims at the behest of officials and military brass who sought to downplay the level of violence in the Andean nation.

Salvatore Mancuso, extradited to the United States a year ago to face drug charges, made the admission while testifying via videolink from Washington.

A portion of the session, which featured the former head of the AUC militia federation answering questions submitted by families of the paramilitaries’ victims, was aired in Colombia on RCN television.

Mancuso said the burning of the bodies “was a favor that (now-deceased AUC founder) Carlos Castaño was doing for the authorities.”

He said the decision came after a meeting where politicians, senior military officers and other notables asked the AUC to dispose of victims’ bodies as a way of holding down the number of deaths that could be attributed to the militias.

More:
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=333321&CategoryId=12393

http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5584551

Brings back the memories of Buchenwald and Dachau.... Hulk May 2015 #1
Exactly what I thought... SoapBox May 2015 #3
" " " n/t MBS May 2015 #4
That's exactly what this unverifiable propaganda is supposed to do. Fournier May 2015 #26
Kinda like when Dubya wouldn't let the press see the coffins coming back from Iraq. nt SunSeeker May 2015 #2
Thanks for the reminder Ned Flanders May 2015 #21
Duct tape and tarps are good to have handy in the home FrodosPet May 2015 #29
Just like the crematories the Colombian right-wing paramilitaries (death squads use). Judi Lynn May 2015 #5
Yes, we know, thank you. NuclearDem May 2015 #9
Thanks for a good laugh! Jeeze..... 7962 May 2015 #10
Really... can you believe it. Yes, it's terrible what's happened in the world.. but, we're talking Cha May 2015 #23
Judi didn't make any "whataboutisms," she pointed out another regime doing something very similar. Scootaloo May 2015 #28
...otherwise known as a whataboutism. NuclearDem May 2015 #34
So why is it we're supposed to get hysterical thinking Russia uses them, which hasn't been proven, Judi Lynn May 2015 #25
Uh, because the OP is about Russia. NuclearDem May 2015 #33
Not only that nichomachus May 2015 #6
that's the gist of it. this time the PR machine is selling a World War yurbud May 2015 #12
Where is the evidence? Tempest May 2015 #7
Well, its not John McCain reporting it either. Its says "classified". 7962 May 2015 #11
Curve Ball said there are 18 mobile labs jakeXT May 2015 #13
that sentence alone is a big tip off it's pure bullshit. yurbud May 2015 #14
The scoundrels! Joe Chi Minh May 2015 #8
we should compile a list of all these PR stories that turned out to be pure bull shit yurbud May 2015 #15
Do you have that much time? Tempest May 2015 #17
that's a good one on just Ukraine yurbud May 2015 #18
Great reading this article. Outstanding journalist. Thank you. n/t Judi Lynn May 2015 #22
DUZY...nt Jesus Malverde May 2015 #27
The Ukraine reporting is just getting cooky. blackspade May 2015 #16
I'm hoping they're getting so sloppy because it's flop sweat yurbud May 2015 #19
Uh oh... blackspade May 2015 #20
Oh, I see the Putin apologists have tried to distract on your thread, 7962. Sickening. Cha May 2015 #24
Damn, that freedom of speech thing is so inconvenient sometimes, isn't it? MattSh May 2015 #30
Yeah, free to say anything you damn please.. Poor Putin.. It's so obvious. Cha May 2015 #31
Are you or have you ever been a commun... um, I mean putinist?! newthinking May 2015 #32
Yes, Cha's post represents an attack on freedom of speech NuclearDem May 2015 #35
I don't think anyone has implied otherwise LanternWaste May 2015 #43
Only reason I posted was the Representatives arent wingnuts. 7962 May 2015 #37
What transparent horseshit. bemildred May 2015 #36
That's the dumbest damned thing I've read in ages. Bugenhagen May 2015 #38
hmmm. wildbilln864 May 2015 #39
Careful. It's time for a... MattSh May 2015 #40
If they have evidence, sat. photos, ground photos/videos-release the pictures! Sunlei May 2015 #41
There's an old Ukrainian joke my uncle-in-law used to tell me MosheFeingold May 2015 #42
Do Russia have "Mobile Crematoriums" I suspect the answer is YES happyslug May 2015 #44
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