Paramilitary Death Squads - Colombia

July 1998
All over Colombia the AUC paramilitaries massacred so-called guerrilla sympathisers and 'cleansed' the areas for the army.

Refugees tell stories of wildly indiscriminate killing sprees: "They cut people's heads off. Many people were disembowelled. They are laying down the seeds of terror." We track the paras to a wealthy ranch they now use as a training base. With the backing of these ranchers the AUC and its leader, Carlos Castano, defeated the guerrillas and liberated them from the guerrilla's protection rackets and raids. The AUC are now maintained by such landowners as virtual private armies. But the fear and death spread by the new power brokers is a heavy price to pay for their security. And now, as the government tries to broker peace, the force it has unleashed goes on killing and prolonging the agony of civil war in Colombia.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[jagtem]

@Colombiano603

American military forces are the biggest terrorists in the world.

[anonops1980]

Gee, it sure is commie around here!

[HomelessOnline]

@jagtem Oh, I know! Because they pissed on taliban carcasses, right?

[HomelessOnline]

@jagtem - because they behead people for belonging to a different religion? Because they fly planes packed with civilians into civilian towers? Because they line up and execute people? Because they use children to clear mine fields? Because they kill children and stuff their carcasses with bombs that will go off when the kids' parents come to collect their child's bodies? Because they captured Saddam? Because they cut off people's faces with piano wire? Stick to simple slogans, jackass.

[mst3k4evur]

FARC and the AUC, so evil that they deserve eachother.

[FishizzleBoy]

O_o, hmmmm? I love America!

[lazer1million]

@FishizzleBoy

Why would anyone leave the imperial Homeland and go live in a third world pisshole full of CIA and DEA trained paramilitary death squads?

People are just pissed that our country is deeply involved in all of the corruption and bloodshed around the world.

I tell you what, if you want to live in a totalitarian police state that arms killers, than why don't YOU move to China? They take good care of their sheeple there, you'd like it.

[mohiahmed1]

why you gotta have war here!?!?!?!, cant you all just get along, snort coke, smoke weed, fuck bitches smh -_-

[stealth1692]

@318ray why?

[juanibarra1026]

@FishizzleBoy learn how to spell colombia

[FishizzleBoy]

I wonder how many people who say "I hate America" live here, well hey! Your more than welcome to go live in columbia if you dont like the way we do things here.