Voices and Silences: "False Positive" Killings in Colombia, US Military Aid, and how to stop them
Channel: closethesoa
Date: 2014-05-13

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, including killings in Huila in southern Colombia under the command of a School of the Americas instructor who now heads the country's Army: http://SOAW.org/colombia. 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.