![]() ![]() There was “enormous pressure” from the state to wipe targets out, Mancuso said. “Mancuso’s narrative was that the military was not strong enough to combat the guerrillas themselves and needed an extrajudicial force in order to carry out the scorched-earth tactics that they themselves could not,” says Elizabeth Dickinson, senior analyst for Colombia at International Crisis Group. Mancuso said officials gave the AUC lists of individuals and communities with suspected ties to the communist rebels so they could intimidate, torture and assassinate them without consideration for the rules of war. In sessions lasting up to eight hours the former warlord this week gave grisly accounts of how the militia acted as an arm of the Colombian state to silence the political opposition and take on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) guerrillas. Mancuso, who was the AUC’s second in command, has admitted to orchestrating thousands of crimes and some of the darkest chapters in Colombian conflict – including massacres of unarmed civilians, torture and sexual violence. Photograph: Schneyder Mendoza/AFP/Getty Images Salvatore Mancuso, former commander of the right-wing paramilitary group AUC, seen on screen during during ceremony where he apologised for his crimes. Most of its 20,000 combatants laid down their weapons in 2004 as part of a controversial peace process. The AUC formed in the Córdoba region in the north of the country to protect landowners from guerrillas but rapidly expanded into one of the world’s biggest drug cartels. Mancuso was released from prison in 2020 and is seeking a reduced sentence from Colombia’s transitional justice system in exchange for divulging the human rights atrocities committed by the AUC – a key player in a brutal, six-decade-long conflict which has left 450,000 dead and millions displaced. “This phenomenon of paramilitarism came from the state,” Mancuso told the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) on a video link from the US where he was extradited on drugs charges in 2008. Commander" is more than likely celebrated in her asinine way of thinking, in her amusingly small circle of supporters, this does not speak to all the employees at the restaurant - I know personally not everyone agreed with the imbecilic behavior shown towards my sister and her fiancé.Salvatore Mancuso told Colombia’s peace tribunal this week that state institutions were not only complicit in the expansion of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) but actively coordinated with them, giving orders to wipe out anyone suspected of aligning with communist rebels. For my sister to call me in tears absolutely broken-hearted at the disrespect shown and the reminder people still behave in this despicable, imbecilic manner I could not stay silent! ![]() ![]() Her behavior is absolutely horrendous and should be called out for the intolerant, fatuous, succubus behavior that she displayed. If she - the owner's wife does not want to entertain interracial couples at her fine (and I use this word with as much sarcasm that I can muster) establishment perhaps she should find a new line of business, in a different part of the world. ![]() Early afternoon on Thursday, January 15th my sister and her fiancé were disrespectfully treated by none other than the owner's wife! They chose to sit on the same side of their booth and after her fiancé leaned in for a kiss they were demanded to leave by none other than the wife of the owner - which she proudly stated. We have many restaurant choices in and around Munster, IN on where we choose to spend our money, I for one, my family and I ask you my friends (and those reading this review) to think very carefully when deciding to eat at Commander Restaurant (745 Ridge Rd Munster, IN 46321). I'm writing this because it's now hit really close to home and to one of the most caring, loving and tolerant couples I'm privileged to know - my sister and her fiancé. In absolute shock! Unbelievable, although some would argue it should not come as a surprise, that in this day there are still people that discriminate against mixed-race couples. ![]()
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