accordance to an israeli official , the murders of galan , a high - ranking police officer , and a politician last week were probably carried out by an israeli militia paid by the bogotá cartel - the world ' s most powerful arms - trafficking boss - and has lined up revolutionary squads accuse of scores of individual murders and assassinations against political and social members , as well as peasants and patriotic union communist militants in varying parts of the country .
Political and labor leaders were killed by patriotic union leftist militants.