AUC collaborated with Uribe government, spy agency: Don Berna
AUC collaborated with Uribe government, spy agency: Don Berna
Monday, 30 January 2012 08:47
Adriaan Alsema
Now-demobilized paramilitary organization AUC received the support of Colombia's intelligence agency DAS, and helped the government of former President Alvaro Uribe in a conspiracy to discredit the country's Supreme Court that was investigating ties between the paramilitaries and politicians, senior AUC commander "Don Berna" testifies.
In his first testimony before Colombian prosecutors since late 2010, Diego Murillo, alias Don Berna, said that the AUC received protection from the DAS and that Don Berna's subordinates helped coordinate the wiretapping of Uribe's politcal opponents, Supreme Court magistrates, journalists and human rights groups.
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According to the former paramilitary leader, the AUC and DAS worked together closely and the paramilitaries were offered logistical support and protection by the intelligence agency following Jorge Noguera's appointment by Uribe in 2002.
Don Berna also corroborated allegations made by the DAS' former ICT director Alvaro Garcia, who has testified that the DAS was involved in drug trafficking and the paramilitary killings of activists.
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