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| [nettime-lat] FW: <nettime> Colombia: horror and sadness |
---------- From: Bill Spornitz <[email protected]> Reply-To: Bill Spornitz <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:49:45 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: <nettime> Colombia: horror and sadness Recently, a Colombian family member (a 23 year old photojournalist) was abducted and disemboweled by paramilitaries. Disemboweling is popular because of the ease with which the victims' bodies can be thrown in the sea and evidence destroyed. Our family has been shattered by this crime. For us, these sad events underscore the ever-present horror and brutality that hangs like a hellish fog over life in Colombia. There is no question: the attitudes and behavior of the Americans are not helping. American involvement in Colombia is a national shame. No responsible, feeling person can turn away. from: http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/fr/fr010329_1_n.sh tml Secrecy in Colombia US military aid to Colombia may be on a large scale but the US government insists that it is not launching another Vietnam as American troops in the country are forbidden to engage in combat with the country's guerrillas. However, private American companies, paid for by the State and Defence Departments and staffed by ex-servicemen from the Special Forces and by pilots, suffer no such restrictions. Last month the world's largest aerial eradication programme, funded by the United States to destroy drug crops in Colombia, ran into a spot of bother. Guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fired on a crop-dusting aircraft and supporting helicopters. The pilot of an American-supplied Huey helicopter was hit in the barrage of small arms fire, but managed to land his stricken chopper. Two other helicopter gunships circled the grounded chopper pouring fire on the Marxist guerrillas, while a third helicopter rescued the crew. Then it transpired that the pilots of two of the choppers in the daring rescue were Americans contracted by the United States State Department... # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] _______________________________________________ nettime-lat mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-lat