for us to find him we were given a quota for murders we needed to prove 6 killings a month is one where they came from who they were didn't matter but we had to prove it. and we asked ourselves who do we kill there's no one left to kill. your mother to form on this or that led to chaos it didn't matter who we came across and a hiker or someone from outside the district and we capture and kill them and claim they were a guerrilla. found a drifter. what do we do with him will he give us the quota for the month so we killed him and counted him the most important thing was to prove the 6 deaths of innocent that's when the conflict spiraled out of control i don't know what the generals were thinking but they gave this quote.

a case of the prado landowners' was sad and terrible and ugly but how they kidnapped and murdered the people that. it's about a 2 hour walk from el prado to the file the finca you know they tied them up and were told them and then locked them in account shared. soldiers from the military were with us. and then we began to torture the people we beat them up or they asked them about the guerrillas. they said they had nothing to do with them then. there was a boy around 1617 years old we beat him now or tortured him and asked him about the guerrillas we'd received orders to remove everyone from those cells prado properties to empty the land of its people and to kill anyone we had to to do so. i remember my general took out a revolver and shot the 1st one in the head he killed the younger. the boy he shot

him in the head. he fell and the others began to weep. they kept saying they knew nothing about it then he told me to shoot another to see if it would make them talk i drew my pistol it was a vulture p 99 and shot another one in the head. he also failed the other 3 wept. camps torturing them about what they said nothing more so the decision was made to kill them if you got. the general killed another one right there. one of the last ones left was the father he was still alive when he was laid on to the tractor right next to the dead and then he was also short and. we had them all on the tractor then i ordered my men to bury the dead. i.

know. that the other what was strange about the situation is that after the massacre and the expulsions all the land went to the families of paramilitary generals and commanders. they suddenly appeared to be the right colombians of the land. and you just need to look at how the coal companies were expanding in the region and ending up with me out of the. sea the way that's exactly when the expulsions and massacres began. after that the land was taken over by those companies and.

we didn't work directly with the coal companies we didn't receive a company id or a salary but they were alliances agreements agreements to finance the paramilitaries the war was expensive. these coal companies financed the paramilitaries of course officially we fought against the guerrilla uprisings goaltimate later we worked with the coal companies in seeing if we could see this. they didn't give us the weapons but the money. protocol. all of them paid.

in 2005 the colombian parliament passed a law in doubt establishing peace and demobilizing the paramilitary groups. the maximum prison sentence was 8 years cardless of the number of murders or the crimes that had been committed to this was that this would put an end to the violence and help the country begin to heal. for the 1st time since the day of the massacre. her sister and her mother donna are returning to their property pronto this is where it all began. a moment the land his last. call might have the land no longer belongs to us we never came back here it is now. all my i don't know mother we're not

there yet after all this time. we have to be patient it's up ahead. here it is here. yes here it is. now i lived here. do you remember. the autumn of course mama. thank you did people live here after us yes of course and who. i don't know if that was the house and they look at it now there's no house at all that way so maybe i don't need to if they had to me before that i had to go or if they'd given me 4 hours i'd have been gone in one but why massacre nearly my entire family. here look the red floor

and what is it and here's where our brothers that. he always liked sitting here on the wall. here on this wall. i mean the mind used this as a dump. over there's the mine. everything from here to there belongs to the mine but they say that this earth here also has coal. the mines over there. but it's on land owners have markers on their land. the markers say that there's coal on that land then the and i'm not going lease again lol they've done some drilling right here to you know what this is where the couvade run these.

millions of tons of coal are mind in colombia every year multinationals like drummond and. the mineral rights for decades to come both companies explicitly reject allegations the ever collaborated with the paramilitaries. today because the 3rd largest producer in colombia as big 3 sarah home drama nonproductive there's no more dumping i mean this is all finished. as we're doing any. top so removal over there. about $80000000.00 tons of the cold goes out of colombia each year it's the 4th or 5th largest producer in in the world of export coal and most of the coal goes to europe the u.s. and south america where the process here is to open up the the mine and as you open

up the mine then we have to dump external and we create those hills that you've seen over there we rehabilitate and we get leave wildlife back in there. protect her in no way would put paramilitaries will benefit from. trish there are those allegations out there but today there's been no evidence many of those paramilitaries who might be studies have also been found to be lying in different processes as well if. there has played some accusations by local black hole goes by were displaced but of that there is a process with the land restitution and we're going to work through that process to find out the truth about how half the capital. need he sure family and the other former landowners in the old pradhan community

are tired of waiting for justice from the courts and tired of empty promises. kept him out. if only my father was still aligned. with it and. that i am like you want we want to use for you to give us back the land to give them like you to keep us the property titles. you know they're going to be a little bit of value that at the end of the. moment stay calm i understand you're upset but it's none of our business but. that's why we haven't done anything yet let us call you a lame duck and have a make up. your government job yes comic am. getting paid no we're not the owners of the prado lens product the loans to the

government. now prado belongs to our government. the property title belongs to the national authority for rural development that included air that i'm going to judge from via the power. ruled out in code should give the land back to wash the. land belongs to us. we as a company you have the right to arrest you what i suggest is that you leave here then we'll be here to talk to. your. the florists family had to return home with no answers. protocol published the following documents regarding the disputed land in a product. group who is not the owner of the prado land and is not interested in owning it fionn or is the columbia universal development agency

including the colombian government has committed proto code to pay the owners 1000000 dollars in compensation protocol has done this but included there did not transfer the payment to the 1st owners but to the 2nd owners the paramilitary. protocol then launched legal action against including. while nice he she is fighting for the return of her family's land of cetus mario meets with an ex comrade people he removed to the bodies of the el prado massacre and must know where they are buried. but we want to know whether you were do you remember how many people we buried here on. dead people here. you know around 100 or more. this is what we did we came

here punks because all the truck. bodies were in the trunk or on the truck. then we dumped them. sometimes it was me sometimes people. are put on our i remember an old man that i killed right here. at 8 o'clock in the morning i killed him back there. i shot him and dumped him oh we take him out of the car i told the old man to look straight ahead and then i shot him in the head. we left them right there. and all the fish really we didn't belong to the government officially we did we received state orders but we're not from the state the state didn't want anyone to know of very existence not even the military was to blame you know they had to go

in there and you know they were also given orders. they were told to collaborate and they did. we patrolled together a soldier a paramilitary man a soldier a paramilitary man. they protected us. he nor do you remember the prado case. yes and of course 5 people from the same family. during the conflict we learned to read people. to know who was bad and who wasn't when i saw that family i knew they would be really. good but they had nothing to do with the guerrillas that affected me if. you can we do this together. sure if they say yes we'll go there together to find the remains. i'm willing to do that. we'll go there

together and look for the location. and then take it up you'll. see but if you think do you think i took part in the murders but i don't know the area because i was never there and see people begin to. know i remember the place. i've been there twice already. in the past members of the colombian military fought alongside paramilitary groups many of those guys remained. only as arias. stays far away from the area he knows too many secrets about people who are too powerful and about former comrades. in the city of by it's safer here in the countryside. telling us

a lot like the work we do here i wake up at 3 o'clock to milk the cows. i didn't get a good night's sleep back then either sometimes they call you in the middle of the night and you'd have to kill someone i. remember what i remember the case quite well i didn't kill anyone there i helped bury the bodies. because i remember that we buried 3 together and we buried 2 others near the tree trunk and. you bought it on my you've got the 8 to your mission i feel guilty because we did harm though it wasn't us it was the commanders they give us the orders they're all get on us for that.

they call you and offer you money. pay you so in so much money to assemble a group of men busy. but i don't want anything to do with a warning more i want to live in peace. it's the same leaders as before. they think that if they make you a good offer you'll be willing to start up again. if you're going to get one on. one on. their own they are. going to be my. number you get out of. there they are going to. pollute you they

are going to run out of but i'm too much here man. move. me i'm not one i look back and i regret everything i did. there's a saying the only one who can forgive us is god your. buts hope god will forgive us along and the victims can also forgive us with all their heart the core of strong. enough case scenario breaks out of contact with us we're unable to reach him and are not given a reason. during the last days of filming one of his representatives calls us out of the blue and makes us an answer. it's simple to continue filming we need to come to my financial agreement. do you understand he says you need to comment on the financial agreement with them on the

quote. he proposes the following some. $20000000.00 pesos so roughly a good annual salary they are going to continue with a project we don't pay hand there are even rumors that elsom mario has rejoined a paramilitary group. instead we continue our search for the remains of the florence family with his former comrade at least r us and. niece and her sisters are meeting lp to us for the 1st time the man who took part in the abduction and murder of their family. member we awarded our bow you weren't buying. your i'm going ahead. tell him to wait

a minute believe me where you are mother good bye why were they brought so far away . but you should talk to the commandant. where they brought here a line i know they were already dead or. they were killed on the farm. the digger to help with the excavation of the. only my last general killed an older man and a boy behind the counter she had too much i don't want it but i go to the little one was killed 1st with a 38 revolver so you would know my little brother yes the little one. and you were there yes i was there. mother but the little one was killed 1st so that the others will talk. more but they didn't want to talk. to someone else killed the older man told off in much the little he knew no. more father for good. yes because he had

a heart attack and fell down at the beginning with the murder someone said he was dead body. but someone else said you know him and shot him well but. they told me to collect the bodies there so what should we do with them should we dump them somewhere you know bury them you know you can get out of. here and some audio killed someone from my family i mean how do you even 2 of them are. lost in thought he sat him down and shot them both but i don't know i'm not going for me didn't you 1000000 of them and tied them up. because that's how we found our youngest brother i mean go monster they often killed people that way they were cowards you know a lot of. ok thanks guys i know that's what we wanted to know ok.

as ordinary soldiers you know more we didn't have the authority to kill on our own or my part of. the local running only in battle and otherwise not in the pool you know by. now that are buried them in their clothes that we didn't remove anything does that mean i thought it would mean that our middle brother is buried here and i mean yes you know i don't know i don't look at it that don't you remember what the people you buried looked like. i might scan light hair in there so in that moment i was also suffering with i mean the film of being mentally ill for all from one single family for the for me any. longer you know why they weren't married nearly 4 meters deep and argue with only 3 . people going to yes because we moved them going through all right.

you know thank you for helping us everyone has a family and. it hurts me so you are just like us. you. never be able to forget all of this. the next day and the commandant called one more time. you know you don't want to do anything told that we should kill everyone up on the guy so that no one who might become an enemy would remain in the world. so kill them all he said. we're going to why don't we just dig it's too deep there's no point looking real good because if we're a small we can do is get an excavator and god willing the owners will help us but i wouldn't. because of soil erosion and the original indexes or graves it's impossible to uncover any bodies by

hand thank you i didn't get the needs to go in that direction dumb luck. plays host. to cable there are varied right around here you don't need to dig here tomorrow in a year or i mean i can't be here i have to be in court no you know what i call walmart paramilitary members have to be there in english and look at it. if i don't show up if i'm to help put me back in prison on the on the. playing . plane

even after several days of searching no remains were found to. play polo player lol i tried to call out to guam to. talk about the connection keeps breaking off. he's into the floors family don't want to give up they can't rest until the remains of their father and brothers are found.

european and german energy companies also import coal from colombia. even though we are aware of the scale of the paramilitary avik sions in colombia becomes. common tough issue we meet with a board member of german energy supplier and gave me to discuss the allegations of targeted expulsions and killings in connection with coal mining in colombia. they are but central and we've been sourcing coal from colombia for years but then we deeply regret that things such as paramilitary operations and disappearances keep happening. we've offered our help but these matters have to be dealt with in colombia in their judicial system in this timeless innocence or shooting or for that crime the amish and us replacing colombian cool to not be. used as its nuclear weapons as a sinister alphabet in b.b. . in recent months there have been every torrent of new paramilitary groups across

colombia. the number of murders and land of actions is rising again and that despite the peace agreements between paramilitary and rebel groups. after we finished filming we heard the following news for point. 0 i then as i was in a we're here in the sun valley ben neighborhood of ziad not far from the airport there's been a murder but at baggage so the letter that several of the victim has been identified as former paramilitary member. known as. according to eyewitnesses the killer entered the apartment on foot says that the victim was killed with 2 shots one in the head one to the back but also called a lot of money if they were taken out of the us the body of us was found in the

kitchen with his feet facing the hall. the killers have yet to be identified. our journey has come to an end we leave and leave nature and her family to an uncertain future. they cause. frank frank in on the law and it's a mob boss only the 1st one spying it's going to make change in our. minds because they can't last team in the media outlet those who sin too much black by scoring too much last minute goal. to god.

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