Evidence of torture chambers found blocks away from Colombia’s presidential palace
Evidence of torture chambers found blocks away from Colombia’s presidential palace
written by Adriaan Alsema June 6, 2016
After a major scandal erupted following the discovery of so-called “chop-up houses” in the port city of Buenaventura, similar torture and dismemberment chambers have been found in Medellin, and now in Bogota.
The first reports on homes that had been abandoned and converted into torture and dismemberment chambers emerged in Buenaventura, Colombia’s main port city, in 2014 after neo-paramilitary group “Los Urabeños” had violently taken control of the impoverished Pacific city.
Some of the homes of some 9,000 families who had been displaced by the neo-paramilitaries between 2012 and 2014 were used to dismember homicide victims after which the remains were thrown in the Pacific Ocean.
The gruesome practice hit the international headlines again in 2015 when Medellin police found evidence of similar horror homes inside government-financed housing projects in the Urabeños-controled west of the city and in abandoned warehouses downtown.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/keep-colombias-homicide-rate-low-dismember-dispose-victims-remains/
(If you remember, the A.U.C. was a right-wing death squad narco-trafficking paramilitary force which sometimes teamed up with Colombia's military in conducting massacres. It was claimed to have demobilized, but human rights groups indicate it merely broke up into new organizations with new names and remains in business, doing the same things they always did.)
LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141478604