6 soldiers and 2 police officers detained for murdering civilians

[Judi Lynn]

6 soldiers and 2 police officers detained for murdering civilians
Friday, 15 July 2011 11:49 Matt Snyder

Six soldiers and two police officials have been detained for murdering civilians and reporting them as guerrillas in "false positive" killings Friday, CM& Noticia reported.

The men were accused of killing two civilians on two different occasions.

In the first occasion, the soldiers and policemen were accused of murdering a farmer after she walked past a military patrol. She was later buried, claimed, and listed as an enemy killed in combat with the FARC. The attack occurred in 2004.

The group was also accused of killing Garcia Garcia, after he was arrested as he was traveling with his wife and children. The men then allegedly presented his body as a fallen guerrilla.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/17671-6-soldiers-and-2-police-officers-detained-for-murdering-civilians.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. This reminds me of Abu Ghraib...

What about the U.S.-funded ($7 BILLION) Colombian generals and police chiefs and U.S. supported president/commander-in-chief Alvaro Uribe, who provided bonuses and promotions on a "body count" basis as an enticement to slaughter civilians, and most particularly peasant farmers, 5 million of whom were driven from their lands by state terror?

What about the Bush Junta, the U.S. State Department, the Pentagon, Rumsfeld, U.S. commanders in Colombia and U.S. senators who were providing "training," "technical assistance" and political support for such policies?

And what were the U.S. soldiers and U.S. private military 'contractors' at all the U.S. bases in Colombia doing, while the Colombian military was going on their "turkey shoots" into the countryside?

Why did the U.S. ambassador feel the need to get Uribe's signature on a secretly negotiated U.S./Colombia military agreement, giving "total diplomatic immunity" to U.S. soldiers and U.S. military 'contractors' in Colombia, more than a decade into the U.S. military presence in Colombia?

Why did the U.S. ambassador collude with Uribe on midnight extraditions of death squad witnesses to the U.S. and their "burial" in the U.S. federal prison system, out of the reach of the Colombian prosecutors and over their objections?

What stinking, bloody Bushwhack horror lurks beneath these mysterious actions?

I'm not sorry to see murderers caught and prosecuted but these were very low level operatives in what is very likely a much, much bigger criminal enterprise run by the Colombia and U.S. governments and, just as with Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and U.S. torture dungeons around the world, and many acts of mass murder, kidnapping, torture, terror, displacement, deliberately created social chaos and theft on an unimaginable scale, the perps who gave the orders, and created the policies, and whose crony corporations and war profiteers hugely benefited from these orders and policies, are running around free, actively immunized and protected by the U.S. government.

This prosecution of a few low level murderers is not enough, and it may, indeed, be part of a coverup.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Exactly! They were reinforcing the idea the country is teeming with so many enemies

they need boatloads of money, and American physical presence in the country to defend their innocent, peace-loving lives. The more, the better protected they are from those rotten, sneaky, poor leftist meanies who are just ruining everything.

How can they keep lotsa poor people available for slave-labor, and total control of all the land for selling to any multinational corporation which wants it, to do as it wishes if they are able to protect themselves, anyway?

If only the poor would shut the #### up, work as hard as they can for no money, learn to sleep standing up so they take less space, go naked and hungry so money is not wasted on them, and then drop dead when they start slowing down.

Then, and only then, the Colombian government might not need as much money for government elites and their friends, but the U.S. would STILL want to keep Colombia available as Donald Rumsfeld termed it, a "lilly pad" for a base of operations in South America.