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it's on i've killed people in it to me that i've taken people's lives or they'll meet someone with a gun different in very violent ways you know. what i killed $42.00 people in a single month. all these companies paid us all of them paid paramilitaries allowed to face the unit under my command didn't finance themselves very drug trafficking it was financed by companies by city holes enough by the government. in britain out of the us then we worked out they all financed us my unit alone had 300 or 400 men a moderate. was .

i'm not afraid of my victims these are all secrets here comes from what we know and from what we represent no one is held to fail secrets come to life as a. place her company elsa mario on a journey back into his violent past. it's a journey in which we will constantly be confronted with the question can a mass murderer ever be trusted let alone forgiven my. my .

love was. ok. but that. colombia has been embroiled in a deadly armed conflict between leftist rebels and right wing paramilitary groups for decades despite a series of peace agreements most recently with the leftwing far. some are fighting for a more equal land a distribution others seek to prevent this. hundreds of thousands have been killed hundreds of thousands are among the disappeared millions forced from their homes. it is a conflict in which the lines between the. good and evil has long since been

dissolved despite the current peace treaty with the far for evolutionary use the fighting goes on to. we've come to northern colombia one of the most violent splayed parts of the country we hope to find out more about the roots of the conflict here and my continuous. ordinary farmers including nations florence and her family has been caught between the families they were falsely suspected of collaborating with the guerillas all of the men in the family her father and 3 brothers were murdered on their own land in el prado only the remains of the youngest son have ever been found.

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all right what's the matter grandma. what's wrong. are. they on the great bill where she's crying because of your uncle our brother her son hug your grandma darling river the well let. me she was just 15 only day of the massacre. from their neighbor's house she watched as her father and brothers were drowned doing. the memorise contradistinction. the order was to kill everyone on the land and so he ever put out the.

same woman when the we found our brother he had been shot in the head at home behind us always. found him his hands and feet had been tied. in my little brother who was just 16 years old he was just a child. we found him. and dug him into the others are still missing. it happened on may 19th 2002 goals because i remember that this armed group came i was at a neighbor's. when i seen they went into our home on me and tied everyone up. look they tied my brothers and my father up. they kicked and hit them. on my leg they locked my mother and sisters in a room. as they love it yes they took my father and my brothers tied up with them.

8 years later we were told they didn't need to kill my father in law and then you'll get mad when he saw his own sons killed before his eyes he had a heart attack but. it was the last we heard of them and we had to leave everything behind when we left our lands behind they don't want to get you know what we never went back to the way. they are now there are days where i can't sleep i wake up crying in the middle of the night. they want to be just i had so many nightmares. they are mind my mother went crazy and all that i don't think needed to restrain her because she wanted to throw herself in front of a car they got to go i was unable to let go of the hate that i had back then i

couldn't woman i felt such rage i wanted to find the killers so that i could kill down. 10 years ago on a scrub growth tropical played in colombia the feasibility studies for a new coal mine looked promising. 5 years ago the 1st coal came out of the ground. he's been mined in colombia for more than 25 years. multinational companies such as drummond and protocol extract the coal and sell it worldwide to the u.s. china and europe including germany.

in recent years the companies have faced accusations that they have collaborated with paramilitary troops. to c.b.s. news that more testimony today in the murder for hire trial of alabama bass drum and a cold one karl is going to tear out a former drum an employee says he saw paramilitary vehicles on in your drive and property back in 2001 when terrell claims he saw several of troubles colombian executives meet with a known paramilitary commander. in colombia the paramilitary money where the sea doesn't matter was also known as and some of your costs are going to court. drummond union organizer. connection between the a u.c. power a man of tree in the north. and drummond company functionaries. who

. mr prosecutor i don't want to be rude but as i've said before if my own see your question i'll be putting my safety and the safety of my family at risk. students mottos known by the alias as some are you was one of the most senior paramilitary commanders in northern colombia he was released from prison 2 years ago this is the 1st time he has returned to the place where he to meet in his crimes.

one will see now how about a sauna when you kill a person you remember that for the rest of your life. and in our case in my case me would so many people died at my hands but i like a lot of people. we're not talking 12 or 3 we're talking about maybe 200 people. or what a lot of you really almost up but on a more those are terrible memories how these people died. even more died on my orders not just by my own hand but at the hands of my comrades. as well as. people who were tortured who were burned alive here in the people whose fingernails we pulled out people who were hacked to pieces. people who begged for their life. we came to places like these and killed people. just because someone told us they were the enemy you glad we did it all. the most

horrible things you can imagine it's a strange contrast before i was the boss i was ill some audio in here but the man who the local people fear the most about the way that across the entire region here in all the districts. today i've returned as i'll see this in the end which is my real name you ignore me people don't remember me because many new young people are now here. things have changed a lot here. it's if they were not on our this was a disputed region they brought me here because of my battle experience and they sent me here with a list. of. it up more around $200.00 people had to be killed if they handed me the list and the commandant said kill all the people on this list. because they were all guerillas or had ties to them the enemy was on there your.

comments are more the whole machine we started killing people committing murder across the entire district and if you need me in the morning at midday. it was a kind of death squad. ensuring that time i stayed and slept at the police station and with the military that i got with and that's where they put me. i even stayed overnight at the mayor's house in the district afghans our eventually we liberated the zone and had enough financing by had troops in the mountains in the villages and the city. like there was no one left to kill. one point in the war there was no one left for us to fight 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 when. 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 that we capture and kill them and claim they were a guerrilla. was found in drifter. what do we do with him will he give us the quota for the month so we killed him and counted him out of 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 these quotes around. the where case of the prado landowners was sad and terrible and ugly but out 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 in what rolled 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 we 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. i asked him about the guerrillas but if we'd received orders to remove everyone from those 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 youngest of 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 that 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 i mean. 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 shortened. and we had them all on the tractor then i ordered my men to bury the dead. i.

know. 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 and. they suddenly appeared to be the right of the land. but if you just need to look at how the coal companies were expanding in the region ending up with me he added they will. see to it that's exactly when the expulsions and massacres began. to vent the land was taken over by those companies by me and by their although. 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 but ultimately we worked with the coal companies in seeing if we could see this. and they didn't give us the weapons but the money. product. 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 18 years burn cardless of the number of murders or the crimes that had been committed the hope 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 in the prado this is where it all began. a moment that the land was lost in the pro they call might have been the land no longer belongs to us we never came back here it is. all 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 you lived here. to your remember. the model of course mama. thank you did people live here after us yes of course and who looked like 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 told me before that i had to go if they'd given me 4 hours i'd have been gone in one but why mouse occur nearly my entire family looks to. me to 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 the only. line of the mind used this as a dump. over there is 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 there be an amount of home base again although they've done some drilling right here too you know what this is where the cool vein runs. millions of tons of coal are mind into money every year multinationals like drummond and. 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 going to this is all finished. is we doing any. topsoil 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 and the process here is to open up the a mine and as you walk in off the mine then we have to dump external and we create those hills that you've seen over there we rehabilitate and we get the wildlife back in their. protocol in

a way would put paramilitaries will benefit from our trade there are those allegations out there but to date there spain no way but i'm sure you know many of these paramilitaries who might be states have also. they found to be lying in different processes as well if. there has place some accusations by local and published by word displaced of that there is a process with the land restoration and we're going to work through that process to find out the truth of the task caught up. in the he sure family and to the other former landowners and we'll product community are tired of waiting for justice from the courts and tired of empty promises.

that came out the way if only my father was still alive and i want to thank. you for what we want to use for you to give us back the land could you give us the property titles. to get a little bit of out of. a bad man moment stay come 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 lay up and out of a big. case of a government out of gas company am. getting to know we're not the owners of the prado lenders eldorado loans to the government. how proud i belong to our government. that the property title belongs to the national authority from

rural development included in the by god john from via the power rule doc and co down should give the land back to us the land belongs to us all not the state to believe otherwise. we know 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 florist family had to return home with no answers. protocol published the following documents regarding the disputed land you know. who is not the owner of the el prado land and is not interested in owning it fionn or is the colombian rural 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 just fighting for the return of her family's land of cetus mario meets with the next comrade people he removed to the bodies of the prado massacre and must know where they are buried. but we want to know whether you or do you remember how many people we buried here. dead people here. you know around 100 or more. like this is what we did we came here parks the cars all the truck what we did our bodies were in the trunk or on the truck. then we dumped them. sometimes it was me sometimes

people. are here for an hour i remember an old man that i killed right here. 8 o'clock in the morning they killed him back there. they shot him and dumped him oh we'd taken him out of the car i told the old man to look straight ahead and then i shot him in the head. right there. surely 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 a very existence not even the military was to blame you know they had to. need to know they were also given orders. they were told to collaborate and they did. we patrol together a soldier a paramilitary man a soldier

a paramilitary man. they protected us. he would 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. if you really got one 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 dig it up yoda. but it is

a big deal if 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. been there twice already. in the past members of the colombian military fought alongside paramilitary groups many of those chinese 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 things. in the city of. 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'd call you in the middle of the night and you'd have to kill someone like. you. i remember the case quite well i didn't kill anyone there i helped bury the bodies and. i remember that we buried 3 together and we buried 2 others near the tree trunk and. he bought it on my you so your mission i feel guilty because we did harm though it wasn't us it was the commanders they gave us the orders are all get on us for that. they call you and offer you money. i'll pay you so in so much money to assemble a group of men 'd. and i don't want anything to do with warning more and 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. you're going to die when i don't . remember i. thought i knew as much you're. going to be my. number you get out of. there you're going to. when i did tell it to you they are going to run out of but i'm too much or have. any i'm mostly out but i. when i look back and i regret everything i did. there's

a saying the only one who can forgive us is god your. butts hope you got to forgive us born and the victims can also forgive us with all their heart and the core of long. enough. to mario breaks off 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 a financial agreement. do you understand he says you need to come to your financial agreement with them because. 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 him 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 are you and. niece and her sisters are meeting lp close to the 1st time the man who took part in the abduction and murder of one of their family. nobody awardees are born buying. your time going ahead. tell him to wait. really where you are mother did tell you why were they brought so far away. or you should talk to the commandant. where they were brought here along you know they

were already dead. they were killed on the farm and. the digger to help with the excavation were going to go and only my love for general killed an older man and a boy behind the counter she had too much not only that but i got out the little one was killed 1st with a 38 revolver. below my little brother yes the little one. so are you and you were there yes i was there. but i've got a mother 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 us in my family do you know. more father we're going to bring you up yes because he had a heart attack and fell down to believe the good news we don't have someone said he was dead body. but someone else said you know i haven't shot him. they told

me to collect the bodies there so what should we do with them should we dump them somewhere you know bury them or you can get out of. here and there's some audio killed someone from my family. i mean by tomorrow you're going to have them. lost in thought and sat them down and shot them both out of the north informing me didn't you 1000000 of them and tied them up. because that's how we found our youngest brother. they often killed people that way they were cowards and a lot of. ok thanks that's what we wanted to know ok. you know. 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.

otherwise not in your larger pool of you know parts. that are buried in their clothes we didn't move anything does that mean i thought it would mean that our middle brother is buried here yes you know i don't know. don't you remember what the people you buried looked like that. might scan light hair on your fellow in that moment i was also suffering with i mean. more being mentally ill for all from one single family life enough for me. to hear what they were married nearly 4 meters deep and argue with them i thought they were going to yes because we moved them going through all right we're. going to thank you for helping us everyone has a family and. it hurts you're going to be soon just like us.

you. never be able to forget all of this. the next day when the commandant called one more time. you know we had anything told that we should kill everyone so that no one who might become an enemy would remain in the old. so kill them all you said. they were going why don't we just did it's too deep there's no point let's look at . what we can do is get an excavator and god willing the owners will help us look what i wanted. because of soil erosion and the original indexes to graves it's impossible to uncover any bodies by hand. thank you how did i get there needs to go in that direction.

place cosplay. if there are buried right around here you tell need to dig here tomorrow you know you're on the way i can't be here i have to be in court you know you're a ballpark all former paramilitary members have to be there in english and look out of. if i don't show up if they'll put me back in prison or you want to be a. playing. playing. playing. oh.

played even after several days of searching no remains were found to. play polo player loci trying to call alfred kwok to. talk to about the connection keeps breaking off. he's into the 1st 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're aware of the scale of the paramilitary of dictions in colombia has become. prominent opposition we meet with a board member of german energy supplier in beating me to discuss the allegations of targeted expulsions and killings in connection with coal mining in colombia so. it would seem sure that we've been sourcing coal from colombia for years we're going to plea regret that things such as paramilitary operations and disappearances keep happening and we've offered our help but these matters have to be dealt with in colombia in their judicial system and the stylus innocents are shooting or for the crime the admission just replacing colombian courts is not a job in your states as you're proving does a snitch deal for him to be. in recent months there have been every move forward to new paramilitary groups across colombia. the number of murders and land of fiction's 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 saying about we're here in the sun valley ben neighborhood. not far from the airport there's been a murder but at bangerz so the letter that several of the victim has been identified as former paramilitary member heidi i live. what is known as he does it will be 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 those whole lot of money if they were taken out of there yes the body of any of us was found in the kitchen with his feet facing the hall i feel.

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