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COLOMBIA: International Criminal Court Scrutinises Paramilitary Crimes

By Constanza Vieira

BOGOTA, Aug 27 (IPS) - The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor ended a three-day visit to Colombia Wednesday, where he has been investigating who is ultimately responsible for the human rights crimes committed in this civil war-torn country.

...In Colombia’s decades-long civil war, appalling human rights crimes are committed by all sides: the leftist guerrillas who took up arms in 1964, the security forces and the far-right paramilitary militias.

But the latter, whose leaders are drug traffickers or have ties to the drug trade, are blamed by the United Nations for 80 percent of all killings, while the insurgents are held responsible for 12 percent and the security forces are blamed for the rest.

more... http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43696

By romy on Aug 27, 2008, 15:14 in Politics & the war.

romy says on Aug 27, 2008, 15:15:

very good article... worth the read if you have interests in Colombia beyond finding women

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brano says on Aug 28, 2008, 09:04:

romy,

ever heard of PLAN COLOMBIA movie by Ungerman and Brohy Free Will Productions?

check it out on www.freedocumentaries.org

"I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty."

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pobrecito says on Aug 28, 2008, 12:54:

no comment from tasco? very strange.

De que vale la vida si cuando la tenemos parece muerta. La vida es para sentirla, para vibrar, para luchar, para combatir. Eso justifica nuestro paso por la tierra........Jaime Pardo Leal

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