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| FORMER COLOMBIAN PRES NARCO TRAFFICKER AND REAL LEADER OF AUC |
THE HORRORS OF PARAMILITARY VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT IN COLOMBIA http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/20513-horrors-of-paramilitary-sexual-violence-revealed.html Hundreds of women were raped and abused by paramilitaries in the AUC's northern block between 1997 and 2005, reveals a new report documenting sexual violence in Colombia's Caribbean region."Women and War: Victims and Resistors in the Colombian Conflict," by Colombia's National Reparation Commission, describes the shocking and systematic sexual violence carried out in the region by paramilitary fighters. The report by the Commission questions the version of events given by paramilitary bosses, who claim that these crimes either didn't happen or were isolated events.The report says, "Given the fact that these violations repeatedly happened in the context of displacing, plundering and barbarically punishing 'disobedient' women, and were inflicted in a public manner, it is scarcely credible that these men, with all their power and the information they handled, were not aware they were happening."It adds it is likely that the AUC "calculated that the victims, mostly young women and children, would not dare to accuse them."El Tiempo newspaper reports that the Commission's document contrasts dramatically with official figures. Of almost 30,000 paramilitaries demobilized in the six years since Colombia's Justice and Peace law came into force, only 47 have acknowleged these types of crimes.
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