Tony recently travelled to Colombia and visited the site of a recently discovered secret graveyard in the town of La Macarena.

On the same day local people gathered to listen to different speakers who told of the killings of ordinary people, sometimes by security forces and sometimes by paramilitaries. One of the recent scandals to emerge has been the incredible story of young men being lured away from their homes in BogaFa with the offer of good employment, but these young men were shot by the army only hours later in different parts of the country so the army could claim they were guerillas shot in action.

This scandal is known as the false positives, and the picture above shows the platform of ‘no more of the false positives’.

The two women pictured above lost their sons in this scandal. The t-shirt reads ‘they didn’t deserve to die, the killers deserve punishment.’ Sadly, the outgoing President Uribe denounced all those involved in La Macarena as enemies with links to terrorism.
Posted in Campaigns, International on August 9, 2010




