paramilitaries in colombia:
Those who arrived at El Palmar never left it alive. Some of them are buried in graves far from the houses in the ranch. Here there was a room called ‘the room of the last teardrop’. There they tortured them, humiliated them, says an inhabitant of San Onofre. Those who survived were driven to a tree where they hanged them, inside the farm, and chopped them up like animals so that they would fit into the tiny graves. Of the 36 graves found in 2005, only one had the remains of four persons. The others were of individuals with the depth of 80 to 120 metres and 60 X 60 centimetres in diameter. In San Onofre, says a man, the lights went almost every day at 6 p.m. and everyone kept indoors.
(...) The left-wing Colombian senator, Gustavo Petro, recently said that paramilitaries met at the sprawling ranch of President Uribe and that of his brother and another of their close associates in the Eighties. They would leave the farm at night to do their killings, he told the Colombian senate.