More Than 3,000 Victims Of Right-Wing Militias Exhumed in Colombia

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Caracas,
Wednesday
May 12,2010

BOGOTA – The Colombian Attorney General’s Office has exhumed 3,131 bodies of people slain by right-wing militias that ostensibly demobilized under a peace process with the government, a senior prosecutor said Tuesday.

The remains were found in 2,579 graves that have been discovered on the basis of confessions made by paramilitaries who laid down their arms, Luis Gonzalez told Caminos, a publication of the National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation, or CNRR.

“We have recovered 3,131 bodies and have identified 1,046 of them,” the head of the unit in the AG office responsible for applying the Justice and Peace Law, passed in mid-2005 as the judicial framework for reinserting paramilitaries into society, said.

The statute, promoted by the government of President Alvaro Uribe, established sentences of five to eight years in jail for those who committed crimes against humanity but who collaborated with the law and compensated their victims’ families.

...you know.. the ones we gave Blackhawk Helicopters , machine guns and pallets of cash ?