In Their Own Words -- Leahy
Posted June 24, 2015
— “AS WE PROVIDED BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN AID TO THE COLOMBIAN ARMY OVER MANY YEARS, ITS TROOPS SYSTEMATICALLY EXECUTED CIVILIANS. WORSE YET, THE OFFICERS WHO WERE IN CHARGE HAVE ESCAPED JUSTICE, AND SOME REMAIN IN SENIOR POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY.”
Senator Patrick Leahy writing about allegations that the Colombian army killed civilians and then posed their bodies as enemy combatants to boost kill numbers.
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