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Join us on THURSDAY, MAY 8 at 7pm for a special event in Washington, DC at La Casa (3166 Mt. Pleasant Street, near Columbia Heights Metro): Voices and Silences: Launching a special report on false positive killings in Colombia, U.S. military aid, and how to stop them The fruit of years of research and documentation, The Rise and Fall of False Positive Killings in Colombia: The Role of U.S. Military Assistance, 2000-2010 takes on the evidence for how aid to the Colombian Army impacted over 5,700 homicides of civilians by soldiers. John Lindsay-Poland of the Fellowship of Reconciliation discusses what this means for the annual $25 billion in global U.S. military and police aid. Rosa Liliana Ortiz, the Coordinator of the South Colombian Human Rights Observatory, gives testimony of Army killings in Huila in southern Colombia under the command of a School of the Americas instructor who now heads the countrys Army: SOAW.org/colombia Sponsors: Fellowship of Reconciliation, SOA Watch, Latin America Working Group, Colombia Human Rights Committee. For information: 202-234-3440. facebook event page: https://facebook/events/296252973874183/
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 00:52:28 +0000

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