Uribe govt wanted to 'take down' Supreme Court: AUC leader .
Uribe govt wanted to 'take down' Supreme Court: AUC leader .
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:42
Adriaan Alsema
Former President Alvaro Uribe's government conspired with the AUC to lower the reported number of child soldiers in the paramilitary organization and later sought to "take down" the Supreme Court that was investigating ties between Uribe associates and the paramilitaries, said the former leader of the AUC Tuesday.
While testifying from his U.S. prison before Colombian prosecutors, the former AUC head bashed statements made by the former President, who has said that he and members of his government are victim of political persecution and a "criminal conspiracy."
According to Mancuso, "there exists no conspiracy against Uribe and his associates. The conspiracy that does exist is theirs."
The former AUC head told the prosecutor that Uribe's former peace commissioner, the now fugitive Luis Carlos Restrepo, conspired with the paramilitaries during the negotiation of the organization's demobilization between 2003 and 2006.
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