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Judi Lynn

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Thu Aug 22, 2013, 11:53 AM Aug 2013

Prosecutor General: ‘Assassinations were state crimes’ (Colombian leftists)

Prosecutor General: ‘Assassinations were state crimes’
posted by Oliver Griffin
Aug 21, 2013



The Prosecutor General revealed on Tuesday that the assassinations of three politicians from 1989 – 1990 had twenty-five connecting similarities and claimed that they were state crimes.

Colombian media reported the claim that the murders of political leaders Luis Gallan, Bernado Jaramillo and Carlos Pizarro are alleged to have “twenty-five points of connectivity,” and that the circumstances surrounding the killings points towards the involvement of government agents.

Some of the coincidences include the supply of illegal fire arms from the same source, the assigning of the same bodyguards to the security teams of each victim and the same method of diverting attention away from the investigation once the murder had taken place.

Media sources have unanimously reported the investigators’ assertions that “the modus operandi of each assassination was the same; after the killings the perpetrators were shot in order to silence them.”

More:
http://colombiareports.com/prosecutor-general-assassinations-were-state-crimes/

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