Colombian soldiers accused of a 'false positive' family murder are released

[Judi Lynn]

Colombian soldiers accused of a 'false positive' family murder are released
Thursday, 24 November 2011 08:44
Tim Hinchliffe

Six Colombian soldiers accused of murdering a family in a "false positive" killing have been released from jail, after a one-year deadline for their trial expired.

The slaughter happened at a billiard hall in San Marcos village in the southern department of Huila in 2008. The soldiers allegedly killed the family of five and passed them off as members of the FARC's 17th Front.

The soldiers were released because their deadline to be called to trial had exceeded 12 months. They must now wait in their homes for another 90 days while legal proceedings continue, on the orders of a judge from the Second Municipal Court of Neiva.

Colombia's Prosecutor General's office is investigating more than 3,000 cases of "false positives" - a term used to describe the military murdering civilians then passing them off as armed combatants to inflate their kill rate.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/20661-colombian-soldiers-accused-of-murdering-family-released.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. The perps who gave the Colombian military $7 BILLION of our tax money

...to kill their own people are not on trial, unfortunately.

I do hope that the military thugs whom they funded and "trained" pay for their crimes--but these are just the low level agents of an evil policy designed, promoted, funded and implemented in Washington DC.

Clinton, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld and their chief operatives in Colombia, including their mafia don 'president' Alvaro Uribe, should be on trial as well, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The USAID designed these "pacification" programs (think Vietnam); the Pentagon has been on the ground in Colombia at military bases and "forward operating locations" throughout the country, while this and numerous other massacres occurred; the U.S. was supplying the Colombian military with weapons, equipment, spying technology and billions of dollars in military booty, including the pay raises offered for upping "body counts" with "false positive" murders; Colombian officers were "trained" at the U.S. School of the Americas; Blackwater has been there as well, "training" "foreign persons" IN COLOMBIA "for use in Iraq and Afghanistan."

In addition, there is now testimony that U.S. ambassador William Brownfield (appointed by Bush, retained in Colombia by Obama) was directly connected to Uribe's vast, illegal, domestic spying operation--spying on judges and prosecutors, as well as spying aimed at creating "hit lists' of trade unionists and other advocates of the poor--as well as evidence that Brownfield colluded with Uribe to remove death squad witnesses from Colombia, out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors and over their objections, and also colluded with Uribe on a secret U.S./Colombia military agreement that, among other things, granted "total diplomatic immunity" to all U.S. military personnel and all U.S. military 'contractors' in Colombia.

To top it all off, Bush gave the U.S. "Medal of Freedom" to Uribe (!)--the leader who oversaw all of these horrors--and the Obama administration has been coddling and protecting him.

The savagery of the Colombian military--in the "false positives" murders and numerous other, more targeted murders (of trade unionists, for instance)--is no accident. It was the policy of the U.S. government which was and is LYING when it says that it didn't approve of it.

The purpose? To terrorize the Colombian people in preparation for U.S. "free trade for the rich"; to drive 5 MILLION peasant farmers from their land, both to favor the big drug mafias and to arrange land grabs by Exxon Mobil, Occidental Petroleum, Monsanto, Chiquita, et al; to consolidate the trillion+ dollar cocaine revenue stream and direct it, in a more focused way, to certain beneficiaries (U.S. banksters, the Bush Cartel, the CIA), and finally to provide a backup war profiteer boondoggle (as if the other U.S. wars were not enough!).

Sheer evil--and these front men for the evil--who have been accused of these murders, have been released and may or may not be prosecuted--are minor players compared to those giving the orders and looting our treasury for these purposes.

What should be happening is a Nuremberg Trial but that is not going to happen because our Democratic Party leaders are as guilty as the Bushwhacks, in their collusion on these policies. It is one of the most disgusting things that I know about them, in a large field of disgusting actions, corruption and failure by those who allege to represent us.