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(160,527 posts)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.
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Dreyfus Donating Member (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 12:45 AM
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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 Colombias 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
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