Plan Colombia: Government losing control while their military murders civilians and traffics drugs

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"Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Thursday he has received information accusing an army brigade of involvement in the illegal drug trade, reports Colombian media.

The Colombian president said that he had receive damning testimony from an informant against the army brigade, which is based in the municipality of Ocaña in the northern department of Santander.

The Colombian president said that members of the armed forces were committing extrajudicial killings - or "false positives" - to disguise their ongoing involvement in the drug trade.

He said, "The narco-traffickers have made alliances with the brigade ... and to make it look like their are pursuing the drug-traffickers, they have killed innocent people.""

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/8868-colombian-army-brigade-accused-of-drug-trafficking.html

Uribe's starting to panic, just recently, he said the "false positives killings" were just a political attack on him.

There's more.

In one city, they are terrorizing the residents.

"The ombudsman of the Colombian department of Caqueta, Alvaro Castelblanco Cardoso, warned Thursday that the population of his department is "under siege" both by the armed forces and by illegally armed groups, reports El Espectador.

The ombusman said that "false positives," extrajudicial killings by the army, continue to be a problem in the region, and that new reports of human rights violations by the army continue to surface.

According to the Castelblanco, "no less than 50,000 or 60,000 young people who live in the area are potential victims of displacement."

The ombudsman called for closer monitoring of the actions of the armed forces active in the area, in statements made in a Constitutional Court hearing on the situation of displaced people in Colombia.

"False positives" is the name given to the scandal in which the Colombian army was found to have killed innocent civilians, and reported them as guerrillas killed in combat, in order to inflate the statistics of enemy deaths. Colombia's Prosecutor General's Office is currently investigating some 1,200 cases of false positives."

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/8866-caqueta-population-under-siege-by-army-and-paras.html

And mass graves have been found.

"The biggest human rights scandal in years is developing in Colombia, though you wouldn't notice it from the total lack of media coverage here. The largest mass grave unearthed in Colombia was discovered by accident last year just outside a Colombian Army base in La Macarena, a rural municipality located in the Department of Meta just south of Bogota. The grave was discovered when children drank from a nearby stream and started to become seriously ill. These illnesses were traced to runoff from what was discovered to be a mass grave - a grave marked only with small flags showing the dates (between 2002 and 2009) on which the bodies were buried.

According to a February 10, 2010 letter issued by Alexandra Valencia Molina, Director of the regional office of Colombia's own Procuraduria General de la Nacion - a government agency tasked to investigate government corruption - approximately 2,000 bodies are buried in this grave. The Colombian Army has admitted responsibility for the grave, claiming to have killed and buried alleged guerillas there. However, the bodies in the grave have yet to be identified. Instead, against all protocol for handling the remains of anyone killed by the military, especially those of guerillas, the bodies contained in the mass grave were buried there secretly without the requisite process of having the Colombian government certify that the deceased were indeed the armed combatants the Army claims."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kovalik/us-colombia-cover-up-atro_b_521402.html

"Oh you don't check the bodies, those bodies are FARC guerrillas because we said so. Sorry we 'forgot' procedure. Just trust us."

BTW, this is all possible because of our tax dollars.