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U.S. Aid to Colombia Contravenes Human Rights Intentions
New Report Shows Dramatic Ties to Extrajudicial Killings
A detailed report released today by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) describes how U.S. funding to the Colombian military has been supporting army units whose members have killed hundreds of civilians.
Read a summary and download the full report.
Drawing on extensive data from the Colombian Attorney General’s and Inspector General’s offices, 20 human rights organizations, the U.S. State Department, and the Colombian military, the report shows that massive military training, equipment and intelligence provided under the rubric of Plan Colombia have abrogated U.S. human rights law and contributed to the killing of thousands of civilians by the Colombian Army.
CIA Paid Colombian Intelligence Agency to Spy on South American Embassies
On May 4, the Colombian Senate held a special hearing on the illegal activities of the Colombian intelligence Agency (DAS). Such activities have included not only illegal surveillance, but a series of acts that amount to State terrorism, such as death threats, kidnappings, harassment of children, blackmailing and framing of Supreme Court Justices, opposition leaders, journalists and human rights defenders. DAS even created a manual for how to threaten the children of their targets.
Colombian High Court Throws Out U.S.-Colombia Military Bases Deal
Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled invalid the agreement signed last October allowing the United States to use at least seven military bases in Colombia.
Secret Prisons and Erosion of Human Rights
We learnt this week about the secret prisons run by the Iraqi army designed to isolate hundreds of Sunni prisoners from the action of courts. God forbid, with no evidence that would stand in trial, the prisoners would have been granted a habeas corpus request! Detainees were disappeared, their relatives unable to find their whereabouts. Tortured. Sodomized. Raped.
The Choir Praises the Dumping of the Bases Agreement
A couple weeks after the ruling declaring invalid the US-Colombia military bases agreement, as the dust settles, politicians and analysts are giving kudos to the Constitutional Court ruling saying that it was for the better. Most of those voices come from former supporters of the deal —including liberal party presidential candidate, Rafael Pardo— can be explained largely by the strong anti Chavez sentiment that saw the bases agreement as a strong deterrent tool against Venezuela.
