Special Rapporteur Philip Alston just wrapped up a 10-day United Nations investigation into the hundreds (thousands?) of innocent Colombians murdered by the military to meet government kill quotas. The report is out, and it's devastating. The Uribe administration naturally still claims that most of the dead were a real live guerilla rebels, but duh they're just lying
:''The evidence that shows victims wearing newly ironed camouflage garments or wearing field boots four sizes bigger than their feet, or left-handed individuals holding a pistol in their right hand . . . negate even more the suggestion that they were guerrillas killed in combat.''The U.N. found that the murders were "more or less systematic," not the actions of a few bad apples, and that the government has pretty much refused to punish the culprits, choosing instead to harass human rights workers who talk about it publically.
On the up side, they found "no evidence" that Alvaro Uribe ever personally lured some kid out of the slums with the promise of a summer job, then strangled him and dressed him up, so the whole government is off the hook, probably! Trade deals for everybody.
Comments (2)
He reminds me of a Gremlin after you put some water on it.
Posted by Bosque
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June 20, 2009 3:10 PM
Posted on June 20, 2009 15:10
Anybody ever remember that creepy German flick, Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes?
Álvaro rather reminds me of Aguirre--a creepy, megalomaniacal ghoul. I hope that he meets the same fate as Aguirre.
With US allies like these, the remaining civilized Latin American nations have nothing to fear and all the moral high ground. Thanks Al: for nothing and, paradoxically, for something...
Posted by Brasil66
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June 20, 2009 11:06 AM
Posted on June 20, 2009 11:06