Colombia Announces Probe Into Massacre

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia Announces Probe Into Massacre
Mar 1st - 4:24am

By TOBY MUSE Associated Press Writer

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Just days ahead of a visit by President Bush, Colombia said it was investigating 69 soldiers accused in a massacre two years ago that induced Washington to suspend $70 million in military aid to the South American nation.

While U.S. lawmakers said the move was a sign that the case was making progress at long last, friends and relatives of the victims said the government was only trying to free up the frozen aid for its long-running fight against leftist rebels.

Authorities are looking into whether the soldiers _ among them 11 officers and noncommissioned officers _ were involved in killing eight civilians, including three children, in a banana-growing region of northwestern Colombia near the Panamanian border.

The February 2005 massacre was brutal even by the standards of Colombia's conflict. Victims were hacked to death with machetes and chopped into pieces.
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"The government is worried that it may lose its military aid if it doesn't make a show of looking like it's investigating," Tuberquia said.
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http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=389&sid=1075397



Colombia's President Uribe and _{George W. Bush}

[Judi Lynn]

1. More on the story of the murdered inhabitants of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó;

http://www.mediosparalapaz.org/index.php?idcategoria=2378#top

[Judi Lynn]

2. Little known fact about the 3rd largest recipient of U. S. foreign aid, under George W. Bush:

Colombia has one of the most horrific human rights violations records in the world. Everyday there are approximately 13 political killings. Of all the kidnappings in the world, half of them occur in Colombia. Colombia also has one of the highest numbers of internally displaced people in the world, which means that its citizens are refugees in their own country. Several Peace Communities, refusing to abandon their land or pick up arms, stand firm in their quest for peace amidst all this violence and sorrow. Few Colombians know of these communities and even fewer internationals do.
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http://www.disarm.org/programs/colombia/index.html

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_Bush loves those right-wing whore/puppets who'll do anything for him for foreign aid.