Drummond funded AUC: Paramilitary commander (Drummond's home-based in Birmingham, Ala.)
Drummond funded AUC: Paramilitary commander
Friday, 23 March 2012 10:04
Brandon Barrett
A former paramilitary commander Thursday testified in a Colombian court that multinational mining company Drummond paid the AUC to protect its railroad.
Hundreds of victims are suing the coal mining company for its alleged role in sponsoring the paramilitary group which disbanded in 2006, reports newspaper El Heraldo. While the lawsuit is a U.S. case, it is being heard in Colombia.
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Another AUC leader, Alcides Mattos Tabares, alias "El Samario", testified earlier this month that Drummond paid him $1.5 million to kill company unionists, specifically naming two union leaders who "had" to be killed for allegedly organizing a strike that would have damaged the company financially.
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It is believed close to 600 people were the target of assasination attempts ordered by the company in the decade after 1995, when the Alabama-based company began its Colombian operations.
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/23035-drummond-funded-auc-paramilitary-commander.html