we asked ourselves who do we kill there's no one left to kill. for more on this or that led to chaos it didn't matter who we came across and a hiker or someone from outside the district we capture and kill them and claim they were a gorilla. we 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 that hit all of us and 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 out how they

kidnapped and murdered the people that. it's about a 2 hour walk from el prado to the follow the finca. they tied them up and 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 asked him about the guerrillas we'd received orders to remove everyone from mosul 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 the boy he shot him in the head. he fell and the others began to weep and they kept saying they knew nothing about it then he told me to shoot another to see if the. i would make

them talk i drew my pistol it was a volatile 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 short 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 as that after the massacre and the expulsions. and went to the families of paramilitary generals and commanders. they suddenly appeared to be the right collaborators of the land. but if you just need to look at how the coal companies were expanding in the region ending up with me added they will. see to it that's exactly when the expulsions and massacres began. after that the land was taken over by those companies and left with it 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 for the coal companies to see if we could see this. and 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 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. your sister jennifer and her mother danielle marco are returning to their property pronto this is where it all began. a moment to the land is lost in the pro they call mines have the land no longer belongs to us we never came back here it is. all mine i don't know mother we're not there yet after all this time to get it out we have to be patient it's up ahead. here it is here. yes

here it is. now i know you lived here my garden. do you remember. them of course mama. did you people live here after us yes of course and who looked at the i don't know if that was the house and look at it now there is no house at all that way to me very ironic that 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 massacre 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 house call. the mines over their. feet. but it's some landowners have markers on their land. the markers say that there's coal on that land and they must be a modicum they said get a little they've done some drilling right here too you know what this is where the cool vein runs. out of all. millions of tons of our mind into money every year multinationals like drummond and . mineral rights for decades to come both companies explicitly reject

allegations the efforts elaborated with the paramilitaries. but that because the 3rd largest producer in colombia as big 3 sarah 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 call goes out of colombia each year it's the 4th or 5th largest producer in in the world 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 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 leave wildlife back in there. predictably not away but put paramilitaries will benefit from our

trade there are those allegations out there but to date there's been no evidence many of these paramilitaries might be states have also been found to be lying in different processes as well. there has played some accusations by local landholders sure they were displaced but there is a process with the land restoration and where you guys will work through the process to find out the truth about our past. that. need he sure family and the other former landowners the meal product community are tired of waiting for justice from the courts and tired of empty promises.

if only my father were still aligned. with that. that i think what we want is for you to give us back the land could you give us the property titles. to get a little bit of reality that. a bad man 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 big kick out of it your government out of gas company ma'am. no we're not the owners of the prado land el prado the loans to the government. probably not because much of. the property title belongs to the national

authority to rule development getting killed there that i go to the john from via the power rule dot in co down should give finance back to us as the land belongs to us all not the studying to get over what. we as a company have the right to arrest you what i suggest is that you leave here. then we'll be here to. the florists family had to return home with no answers. protocol published the following documents regarding the disputed land in the prado. brutus who is not the owner of the prado land and is not interested in owning it fionn or is the colombian virtual development agency including the colombian government has committed protocol to pay the owners $1000000.00 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 real prado massacre and must know where they are buried. but we want to know whether we were to 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 parks the cars all the truck what we do with the bodies were in the trunk or on the truck. then we dumped them. sometimes it was me sometimes

people. are part of an article i remember an old man that i killed right here. 8 o'clock in the morning i killed him back there. i shot him and dumped him. we taken him out of the car i told the old man to look straight ahead and then i shot him in the head. we left him right there. surely we didn't belong to the government officially we did we received state orders that were 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. you 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 old 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. 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. see but if you do you think i took part in the murders but i don't know the area

because i was never there and see people beginning 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 is our highest peak stays far away from the area he knows too many secrets adopt people who are too powerful and about former comrades things. in the city of. it's safer here in the countryside. killing is a lot like the work we do here i wake up at 3 o'clock to milk the cows. if 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 i. remember. 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. you bought it on my you do your mission i feel guilty because we did harm though it wasn't us it was the commanders they gave us the orders. they call you and offer you money. i'll pay you so in so much money to assemble a group of men 'd 'd. and 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. you're going to be there when i don't. remember. it all they are. not. going to. win either to lose you there are going right now but i'm too much here man. moves. me i'm mostly out but when 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 alone and the victims can also forgive us with all their heart and the core of strong. enough some are your bricks 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 come to our financial agreement with them all 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 and there are even rumors that elsom mario has rejoined a paramilitary group. instead we continue our search for the remains of the farmer's family with his former comrade ellie is our yes and. it's. nice and her sisters are meeting alkie course for the 1st time the man who took part in the abduction and murder of their family. i don't. know boy oh boy these are all new warm bodies. of. your i'm going ahead. tell him to wait. i believe. where you are mother good for you why were they brought so far away. for you should talk to the commandant. where they brought here along no they were already dead.

they were killed on the farm and. the digger to help with the excavation. only my lot with general killed an older man and a boy behind the gosh i don't know if i go to 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 for you. mother the little one was killed on the 1st so that the others will talk. more but they didn't want to talk. to someone else until the older man told us in march that it was you know. our father were going to be with us because he had a heart attack and fell down because if you can deal with the hurt someone said he was dead. but someone else said you know and 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 it was some audio killed someone from my family i mean by when you were going to have them . lost in thought he sat them down and shot them both but a lot of them now are going to hold me didn't you 1000000 of them and tied them up . because that's how we found our youngest brother go hmongs you know they often killed people that way they were cowards and a lot of. ok thanks that's what we wanted to know ok. but. do you know what the film 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 you know we are not a fool you know by. now that our buried them in their clothes that we didn't remove anything does that you know that our middle brother is buried here yes i think when you look at that don't you remember what the people you buried look like i'm almost my skin light hair when you're in that moment i was also suffering with i mean. the most being mean for you know for all from one single family life enough for me . to hear why they were married nearly 4 meters deep and i gave them the i thought back here that they were going to yes we will see him because we moved i'm going through all right good bye with. the whole thank you you know thank you for helping us everyone has a family and. it hurts you're going to get me 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 they don't want anything told that we should kill everyone so that no one who might become an enemy will remain. so kill them all he said and i. think we're going to why don't we just dig it's too deep there's no point looking you go where i thought we can do is get an excavator and called willing the owners will help us look what i want to. because of soil erosion and the original depths of the graves it's impossible to uncover any bodies by hand. the idea that the needs to go in that direction.

there are varied right around here i mean how can you tell need to dig here tomorrow in your woman and i can't be here i have to be in court you know your ballpark all former paramilitary members have to be there. to show look at it. if i don't show up if in to help put me back in prison only one.

place even after several days of searching no remains were found. plain. i don't know what i'm trying to cornell pretty quiet. after all but the connection keeps breaking off. the 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 home from colombia.

even though we're aware of the scale of the paramilitary of dictions in colombia comes common tough issue we meet with a board member of german energy supplier in b.v. to discuss the allegations of targeted expulsions and killings in connection with coal mining in colombia. there but soon we've been sourcing coal from colombia for years but 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 this time i guess this is our shifting of the amish and us replacing colombian cooled says not a. used it's as it's an improvement as a snitch to get him to be. in recent months there have been ever more reports 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 singing back we're here in the sun valley playing neighborhood of zion not far from the airport to meet her there's been a murder but i thank you so the letter that several of the victim has been identified as former paramilitary member. of what is known as he does it will be according to eyewitnesses who the killer entered the apartment on foot said the victim was killed with 2 shots one in the head one to the back but souls whole lot of mother fled what they got out of there yes the body of us was found in the kitchen with his feet facing the hall i feel.

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