Who to kill? Colombia army picks soldier's brother

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BOGOTA, Colombia – The soldiers in Antelope Company's Third Platoon hadn't registered a guerrilla kill in months. And without results, they feared they wouldn't be let off base for Mother's Day.

So they hatched a plan, according to Pvt. Luis Esteban Montes: Lure a civilian to their camp, murder him and register him as a rebel slain in combat.

Montes, 24, didn't object — until he met the quarry. It was Leonardo, the older brother he hadn't seen since he was 9.

Montes said he tried to dissuade his commander, who responded with threats. He slipped his brother out of the camp, he says, only to see him show up dead a week later, a "guerrilla kill" with three bullets in his torso and a gaping facial wound likely caused by a knife.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Simply incomprehensible. Far, far from decency. They want us to send more money to them, too!

God bless these noble people, who kill helpless, unsuspecting citizens for such ugly, trivial, cheap reasons, ruining their lives, their loved ones' lives, and ripping apart the social fabric, keeping the population living in terror.

Fuck them, fuck their supporters.