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COLOMBIA ANALYSIS: Las Pavas—The criminalization of victims

published by Aletho News on Tue, 2012-02-14 21:54

... The paramilitaries who displaced the community, the palm-oil cultivators Daabon and Aportes San Isidro responsible for the environmental degradation and continued occupation of the land are not the subjects of judicial investigations.  It is the dispossessed and displaced campesinos who are under investigation...

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Trained for Pain: Get your Torture Degree from School of Americas

published by Tom Sullivan on Sun, 2011-07-17 22:04

It's been 30 years since Colombian soldiers kidnapped, beat, tortured, starved and electro-shocked Hector Aristizabal — but it's a memory he lives with everyday. Aristizabal said the Colombian military held and tortured him for ten days, all for having a "subversive book." "Few people have survived torture in Colombia, so I am very lucky to tell this story. Most people get tortured for ten days, that's the standard, and then they get shot and killed," said Aristizabal. "Many have been disappeared — more than 80,000." 

Trained for Pain: Get your Torture Degree from School of Americas
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