NAT'L. SECURITY ARCHIVE: Trujillo Declassified - Documenting Colombia's "Tragedy Without End"

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National Security Archive Update, October 5, 2008

Trujillo Declassified: Documenting Colombia's 'tragedy without end'

Documents Detail U.S. Concerns about Impunity in Major Human Rights Case

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Michael Evans - 202/994-7029

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Washington, DC, October 5, 2008 - As Colombian prosecutors begin to reopen investigations against individuals connected to one of the worst massacres in the country's modern history, the National Security Archive today publishes on the Web a collection of declassified documents detailing U.S. concerns about the wall of impunity that has long surrounded the case.

These documents are central to an article published this weekend in Spanish on the Web site of Semana magazine, Colombia's largest newsweekly. An English version of the article is available on the Archive Web site - http://www.nsarchive.org/colombia - and on the Web site of the new Semana International.

The new movement on the Trujillo massacre follows closely the release of a major new report on the case, the first issued by the Historical Memory Group (GMH) of the National Commission on Reparations and Reconciliation (CNRR). Led by a distinguished group of researchers, the GMH is charged with writing a comprehensive history of the Colombian conflict focusing on the country's illegal armed groups.

The Archive's Colombia Documentation Project is proud to be assisting the GMH and other researchers with investigations of the major human rights cases over the last four decades of violence in Colombia.

Visit the Web site of the National Security Archive for more information about today's posting.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Unbelievable the US knew about this evil massacre in 1995, and still went ahead with Plan Colombia!

Clearly illuminated, a torture and murder event with 11 victims, cutting off limbs and heads of living people with chainsaws.

Too bad there was no one decent to step forward and forbid this action in power in Colombia. Of course, the history is actually replete with many more examples of the government-connected death squads terrorizing entire villages, sometimes with chainsaws.

No doubt they have settled on chainsaws simply because of the unbearable fear they would instill in the minds of anyone who even hears about the range of talent and interests on the part of the military-affiliated para death squad monsters.

Thanks for posting this information here. It needs to be studied. I've already filed it away for future use, as well.

Do you imagine the fact they're throwing this open to public scrutiny is meant to convince people who could influence the FTA that the current Uribe government is being cooperative, and deserves to get that goddamned FTA right away, before the year is over? You can bet Uribe is worried about Obama winning, since Obama has already come out as opposed to the FTA.