Disappearances, Dismemberment & Chop-Up Houses in Colombia (Graphic imagery)

[Judi Lynn]

2. Colombia drug gangs cut up people alive in ‘chop-up houses' – HRW

Colombia drug gangs cut up people alive in ‘chop-up houses' – HRW

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:06 PM

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At night along the river banks of the Colombian port city of Buenaventura, residents say they can hear people scream and plea for mercy as they are cut up with chainsaws.

Gang members have been seen emerging from so-called “chop-up houses”, nestled in warrens of wooden shacks on stilts, carrying plastic bags with dismembered body parts that are thrown into the sea.

Fishermen say they have come across body parts floating in the waters of Colombia’s main port on the Pacific coast, an international shipping hub.

Buenaventura, home to 370,000 people, is a key smuggling point for cocaine being transported by sea and overland through Central America and Mexico en route to the United States, making it a hotspot for drug traffickers and criminal gangs and one of Colombia’s most violent cities.

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