Ex-paramilitary leader sentenced to 24 more years for massacre .

[Judi Lynn]

Ex-paramilitary leader sentenced to 24 more years for massacre .
Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:22 Caitlin Trent



Salvatore Mancuso, a former paramilitary leader who has already been charged for multiple crimes, was sentenced on Wednesday to 24 more years in prison for his involvement in a central Colombian massacre.

Mancuso has been charged with involvement in the massacre that occurred in June 1997 in the town of Mapiripan, located in the central department of Meta.

Approximately 100 paramilitaries raided Mapiripan where they killed, tortured and kidnapped its inhabitants. During the five days they were there, paramilitaries encountered no resistance from the Colombian authorities. Although the number of people slaughtered in the massacre has not been confirmed, it is thought that at least ten people were killed.

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Mancuso is currently in a United States prison for drug trafficking charges where he has implicated several Colombian army officials for various massacres in the 1990's.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/26444-ex-paramilitary-leader-sentenced-to-24-more-years-for-massacre.html

[BlueToTheBone]

1. good. May he never see the light of day again.

Thanks

[joycejnr]

2. We have a few leaders in this country that should be behind bars...

Kissinger, Rumsfeld - even West - to name a few. Anymore come to mind, or would that be considered depressing?

[Judi Lynn]

3. All the ones from the murderous, hate and greed driven Republican Party.

All they have learned from their previous atrocities against humanity is a determination never to be stopped again before they steal, lie, and murder their way back to complete power.

There will NEVER be a day any of them can be trusted again. Karl Rove has even been quoted expressing his goal for the Republican Party to become the ONLY party in power from now forward.

How the last pResident and his torture and death-loving cabal ever escaped going to prison will always be an inexcuseable mystery.

[sabrina 1]

4. It's still possible that a few of them may be held accountable. In some of the Latin American

countries it took decades before victims received any justice. I am sure they are watching what is happening in that part of the world. These war criminals in Latin America probably thought they were invincible also. But the many trials and convictions over the past number of years has probably shaken the confidence of a few other war criminals.

Even if trials do not happen until after they are dead, they should know that history has a way of exposing evil even if justice is denied during the lives of those responsible.

And they all worry so much about their 'legacies'.

[joshcryer]

5. Glad Santos is cracking down. He's great.