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Colombia's Killer Networks

by Human Rights Watch - £12.95  Human Rights Watch (1996)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781564322036 | ISBN 10: 1564322033

The junior and mid-level officers who tolerated, planned, directed and even took part in paramilitary violence in Colombia in the 1980s now occupy senior positions in the Colombian military. As commanders, they have not only promoted, encouraged and protected paramilitary groups, but have used them to provide intelligence and assassinate and massacre Colombians suspected of being guerilla allies. Human Rights Watch has obtained evidence, including the heretofore secret Colombian military intelligence reorganization plan called Order 200-05/91 and eyewitness testimony, that shows in 1991, the military made civilians a key part of its intelligence-gathering apparatus. Working under the direct orders of the military high command, paramilitary forces incorporated into intelligence networks conducted surveillance of legal opposition political figures and groups, operated with military units, then executed attacks against targets chosen by their military commanders. Human Rights Watch has also documented the disturbing role played by the United States in support of the Colombian military. Despite Colombia's disastrous human rights record, a U.S. Defence Department and Central Intelligence Agency team worked with Colombian military officers on the 1991 intelligence reorganization that resulted in the creation of killer networks that identified and killed civilians suspected of supporting guerillas.

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