Warning: This article is horrifying.
"I would like to ask the victims, the country, whether Colombia is really ready to hear the truth, because every time we talk about the people who have benefited from the war, the 'heroes of the fatherland' come out to call us liars.
So, we better not talk again about the people who are untouchable in this country, and we'll just continue talking only about the peasant who farmed manioc or coffee, who doesn't matter to anyone.
Here we say that we cut off his head, that we chopped him up, that his wife was raped, that we stole his plot of land, and no one is shocked. But when we talk about the people in this society who benefited or had ties to the self-defence forces, oh yes, then we're causing a scandal, and we're 'dishonouring' these people.
But the people we decapitated, the widows who saw their husbands or their sons cut up alive in front of them – we haven't dishonoured those people.
* Barack Obama
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