Reply #5: Amnesty Internat'l attributes **92%** of the murders of union leaders in Colombia,

[Peace Patriot]

over the recent decade, to the Colombian military (about half) and its closely tied rightwing paramilitary death squads (the other half) and only 2% to the FARC (armed leftist guerillas). That proportion holds true in many situations in which fascists, torturers and mass murderers have seized a government and are brutally oppressing the poor and their advocates, or are trying to topple a good government that respects human rights (--with the U.S. thickly involved on the wrong side of these conflicts every time.) So you can think what you want about people who choose to fight such oppression by armed means, but you cannot equate one (fascist oppression) with the other (armed rebellion against fascist oppression). The stats bear out that the vast bulk of the violence against non-combatants in Latin America has been inflicted by rightwing forces.

This BBCrap that Funes "will no doubt come under criticism for" not apologizing for the armed rebellion against the rightwing horrors in El Salvador is yet more evidence of the BBC's complete unreliability on Latin American issues, if we needed any more evidence. It also makes me very concerned about CIA plots to overthrow democracy in El Salvador, once again, as just occurred in Honduras. The British and the U.S. government worked in tandem to accomplish the slaughter of a hundred thousand innocent people in Iraq, to steal their oil. What are they working in tandem on now?

And when the BBC tried to provide the least bit of objectivity about that horrendous invasion, they got downsized and muzzled. They are no longer any kind of trustworthy source of world news, where US/UK corporate and war profiteer interests are involved.