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United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, or AUC, in Spanish), were formed in April 1997 as an umbrella paramilitary organization to consolidate most local and regional paramilitary groups in Colombia, each with the mission to protect local economic, social and political interests by fighting insurgents in their areas. A February 2005 report by the United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that, during 2004, "the AUC was responsible for 342 cases of violations of the cessation of hostilities. The AUC is considered as a terrorist organization by multiple countries and organizations, including the United States and the European Union. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Self-Defence_Forces_of_Colombia   (2214 words)

Domestic prosecution - Prevent Genocide International The paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia are accused by human rights groups of having committed the most atrocities in Colombia's war, now in its 38th year, although leftist rebels have also committed many serious crimes. The unit was convicted of killing 15 people at a party in the Barrios Altos district of Lima in 1991 and nine students and their professor at La Cantuta university in 1992. Her defense lawyer claimed he did not have sufficient time to study her case file, yet the trial was not adjourned. www.preventgenocide.org /punish/domestic/index.htm   (16568 words)

OEA/Ser A final footnote to this arms diversion was provided by the leader of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, Carlos Castaño, On June 30, 2002, in an interview granted to Colombia’s newspaper, El Tiempo, he answered a question about the Otterloo,  and said “This is the greatest achievement by the AUC so far. Colombia is the victim of the arms diversion. Although the Investigative Team found no evidence that Ori Zoller and Uzi Kissilevich, the owner and general manager of of GIR S.A., respectively, were co-conspirators in the arms diversion, their failure to make any attempt to verify the actual destination for the arms contributed to the diversion. www.oas.org /OASpage/NI-COarmas/NI-COEnglish3687.htm   (5255 words)

NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Decapitation Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia) or AUC is a terrorist umbrella organization formed in April 1997 to consolidate most local and regional paramilitary groups in Colombia, each with the mission to protect economic interests and combat insurgents locally. The FARC-EPs flag The Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Peoples Army, or FARC-EP) is Colombias oldest and largest guerrilla group, established in 1964-1966 as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party. Right wing paramilitary groups such as the AUC have sometimes used this method to intimidate local populations and it has not been uncommon for their Left wing guerrilla enemies in the FARC as well as criminal gangs of druglords to also make limited use of decapitation on occasion. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Decapitation   (5250 words)

An Interview with AUC Commander Enrique He was Comandante Enrique, alias the Cobra, and at 28 years of age the commander of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) in the department of Putumayo in southern Colombia. Maybe in the United States and Europe you see the self-defense forces as narco-traffickers, but we are not. The self-defense forces were not created because the guerrillas existed, they were created because the government couldn`t defend the people`s rights. www.colombiajournal.org /colombia53.htm   (1198 words)

Tense border spawns gunmen in Venezuela / Anti-rebel paramilitaries inspired by counterparts in Colombia The shadowy United Self-Defense Forces of Venezuela, or AUV, are modeled after their next-door counterpart, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), the brutal right-wing group created by Colombian ranchers in the 1980s to protect themselves from leftist guerrillas. The Venezuelan military refuses to acknowledge the existence of the irregular forces. The most intriguing of the new Venezuelan armed factions is the Bolivarian Liberation Forces (FBL), perhaps the world's first pro-government rural guerrilla group. sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/08/MN25406.DTL   (913 words)

Colombia Colombia was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as a participant. Although state security forces doubled operations against paramilitaries during the year and quadrupled the number of paramilitaries captured since 2000 (see Section 1.g.), security force actions in the field were not always consistent with the leadership's positions. According to the Ministry of Defense, as of November 30, guerrillas, particularly the FARC, and, to a lesser extent, the ELN, committed nearly 1,000 terrorist bombings. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18325.htm   (18856 words)

Colombian Army Selectively Targets Paramilitaries The country's largest paramilitary organization, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), is also fighting the ACC in a turf war over cocaine-producing territory. During the Colombian government's failed peace process with the country's largest leftist guerrilla movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the rebels repeatedly demanded that the Colombian military dismantle the AUC. The ongoing failure of the military to target the AUC is partly due to the operational convenience of having right-wing militias available to wage a dirty war against suspected subversives. www.colombiajournal.org /colombia195.htm   (570 words)

Americas 2001 The paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) was presumed to be behind the April 27 killing of Flavio Bedoya, a regional correspondent for the Bogotá-based Communist Party newspaper Voz. Meanwhile, Colombia's largest guerrilla movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was implicated in the July 6 murder of José Duviel Vásquez Arias, one of three journalists from radio station La Voz de la Selva (The Voice of the Jungle) who were assassinated during a seven-month period. Top Colombian TV anchor Gurisatti was forced to flee the country for Miami after government officials said they had uncovered evidence of a plot to kill her. www.cpj.org /attacks01/americas01/colombia.html   (5078 words)

Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley The AUC is responsible for the majority of Colombia's political killings and has recently made a strong push into the southern regions in an effort to force guerrillas from the area. In Colombia's rolling hills and lush jungles, far from the eyes and ears of the media, a horror unfolds in relative silence. Putumayo is the epicenter of Plan Colombia, the American sponsored anti-narcotic/anti-guerrilla campaign. socrates.berkeley.edu:7001 /Gallery/hoagland   (586 words)

Online NewsHour Update: Colombian Paramilitary Group Declares Ceasefire -- Nov. 29, 2002 The leaders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia [AUC], the largest and most brutal of the far-right paramilitary groups, declared a unilateral ceasefire Friday and called for talks with the Colombian government. This request is seen as critical since Colombia sentenced Castano to 20 years in prison for acts committed by the AUC and the U.S. is pursuing extradition of both Castano and Mancuso to face numerous drug trafficking charges. The ceasefire is scheduled to begin two days before the arrival in Colombia of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is expected to express support for President Uribe's hard-line counter-insurgency efforts. www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/colombia_11-29-02.html   (642 words)

*COLOMBIA INFOinBRIEF The Marxist-led Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country's largest and most powerful insurgency, took advantage of a cease-fire declared by Colombia's right-wing paramilitaries, the United Self -Defenses of Colombia (AUC), to launch a bloody assault on the mountain stronghold of AUC leader Carlos Castaño. Carlos Castano, head of the largest paramilitary force, the United Self-Defense Groups of Colombia (AUC), declared in a February communique that all non-governmental organizations were "military targets" because of their alleged guerrilla ties. Carlos Castaño, Colombia's infamous paramilitary leader, took responsibility for the kidnapping of the IPC employees, announcing that they are being held as prisoners of war. colhrnet.igc.org /infobrief/ib199902.htm   (2661 words)

americas.org - Uribe's Boys According to a 1991 U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report obtained by the National Security Archive, Uribe was also "a close personal friend of Pablo Escobar" and among "the more important Colombian narco-traffickers." Under his watch, paramilitaries wiped out civilians and seized territory, with homicides in Urabá tripling from 1994 to 1996. Colombia's paramilitaries were organized in the 1980s, out of a network of alliances between military officers seeking a more effective counterinsurgency strategy, large land-holders wanting to protect their properties from seizure and their families from kidnapping by guerrillas, and drug traffickers needing private armies to conduct their business. Nearly every night on Colombian television news, the authorities show off a few dozen just-captured, handcuffed "terrorists." No matter if more than half of them are later released for lack of evidence or even charges. www.americas.org /item_16025   (1818 words)

Terrorism - Colombia Colombia is the third largest recipient of U.S. military aid, and that aid is only estimated to increase in the short term, even though such efforts have been met with mixed results. Colombian government reaction to the three Colombian "terrorist" groups has differed greatly from the response of the Taliban. While Colombia is a formal democracy, its society is beset with violence and corruption fueled by the drug trade. www.cdi.org /terrorism/colombia.cfm   (1075 words)

Colombia - Corruption - FARC - Worldpress.org The United States, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, and the Organization of American States—all of which have distinct interests in the affair—are conducting their own investigations. Following the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, President George W. Bush had already budgeted US$98 million to protect the pipeline, judging it an important source of oil in the event that instability in the Middle East should threaten oil supplies from that region. The May 15 edition of El Tiempo reported that Alvaro Uribe Vélez, Colombia’s newly elected president, was making political hay out of the revelations and was proposing to assign an independent organization to monitor the funds and guarantee transparency in their uses. www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=707&dont=yes   (1156 words)

NOW with David Brancaccio. Politics & Economy. Colombia/United States Timeline PBS The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) is the umbrella organization for right-wing paramilitaries operating in the northern parts of the the nation. Colombia has been embroiled in civil war for the past 38 years, involving the government, the military, right-wing paramilitaries, left-wing revolutionary guerillas, coca growers, drug traffickers, and the United States. Its principal mission is to rid Colombia of leftist guerillas, which the AUC terms "subversives" who abandoned their Marxist-communist foundation to profit from the narcotics industry. www.pbs.org /now/politics/colombia.html   (701 words)

United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia is an umbrella organization intended to consolidate the major local and regional paramilitary groups fighting against Colombia’s Marxist guerillas. AUC forces are strongest in the northwest in Antioquia, Cordoba, Sucre, and Bolivar Departments. In 1989, as abuses and atrocities committed by the paramilitaries mounted, the Colombian government was forced to outlaw the paramilitaries and vigilante groups. www.ict.org.il /inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=91   (1102 words)

Colombia Profile (8.2) In 2003, the United Nations suspected the Colombian army of using anti-personnel mines in southwestern Colombia. According to The United Nations Children's Fund, in order to effectively demine and communicate the risk to Colombians, awareness programs must be implemented over the next six years in 60 locales. Efforts to demine Colombia are hindered by the constant placement of mines by guerilla groups. maic.jmu.edu /journal/8.2/profiles/colombia.htm   (580 words)

americas.org - Washington’s Paramilitary Game in Colombia While the United States was initially supportive of President Alvaro Uribe’s negotiations with Colombia’s right-wing paramilitary group the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), recent comments by U.S. Ambassador William Wood and the issuing of drug indictments against paramilitary leaders appear to be undermining the talks. Despite repeated claims by U.S. and Colombian officials that the armed forces have achieved the upper hand and that the FARC are now on the defensive, there have been no significant battlefield victories. That the FARC is still a formidable force was made apparent on July 22, the same day the United States indicted Murillo and Castaño, when some 200 rebels attacked a heavily-guarded bridge in southern Colombia, killing 13 soldiers. www.americas.org /item_15827   (1081 words)

Terrorism - In the Spotlight: United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) Indeed in 1997, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, dubbed AUC for its Spanish initials, emerged in Northern Colombia. In addition to the links between paramilitary forces and the drug trade, U.S. officials are increasingly concerned with the grave human rights abuses committed by the AUC and their connection to Colombian security forces. Targeting mainly perceived supporters of left-wing groups, specifically the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army (ELN), as well as political activists, police officials and judges, the AUC is responsible for the largest amount of killings and massacres in Colombia. www.cdi.org /terrorism/auc.cfm   (1034 words)

U.S. Indictment of Colombian Paramilitaries Last year Secretary of State Powell designated the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and this indictment also illustrates the clear nexus between the narcotics trade and terrorism. The indictment unsealed today is clear evidence of the depth of United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) involvement in virtually every stage of the drug business. We support President Uribe’s commitment to take aggressive action against all three of Colombia’s major illegal armed groups, and we will continue to work closely with the Uribe Administration to defend Colombia’s democracy and human rights by bringing peace, security and prosperity to the Colombian people. www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2002/13652.htm   (272 words)

World Campaign - Message of the Day "The United Self Defense Forces of Colombia are taking a definitive step toward total peace," pronounced paramilitary commander Salvatore Mancuso.” If successful, the talks could lead to a shift in the balance of Colombia's 40-year civil war, and about 20,000 armed fighters being demobilized. Although the paramilitary umbrella organization, the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, officially declared a ceasefire in late 2002, hundreds of people have been killed by its members since then. Colombia's feared rightwing paramilitaries, responsible for some of the nation’s worst atrocities over the last two decades, began formal peace negotiations with the government last week amid widespread skepticism. www.worldcampaign.net /mesarch.cgi?v=1089059093   (344 words)

Non Lethal Defense: 2005-09-04 I have taught self defense with firearms and other weapons most of my adult life and have even been lucky enough to teach this subject at the local community college for ten years. Self Defense is all about knowing what is going on around you. WINNIPEG -- The group representing police across the country supports the use of Taser stunguns by front-line officers, but only if there's proper training and all officers get them. blogs.nonlethaldefense.com /2005_09_04_archive.html   (3261 words)

.:: SNE ::. Before the necessity of making effective presence in zones in a reiterated manner, complaints have been presented regarding alleged violations to the cease of hostilities from the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia; the OAS is studying the possibility of installing regional offices that shall permit a greater coverage and immediate attention in this matter. Verify the accomplishment and the acquired commitments in the agreement signed between the National Government and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia for the installation of the zone. In January, 2004, Colombia subscribed an agreement with the OAS with the purpose of realizing a wide and flexible accompaniment to the Peace policy with the illegal armed groups. www.presidencia.gov.co /Ingles/news/june/11/01112004.htm   (454 words)

MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base Founding Philosophy: The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) was formed to combat leftist terrorist organizations operating in Colombia, primarily the FARC and ELN. The AUC grew out of local paramilitary and self-defense groups formed in the 1980s. "Fate of Colombia paramilitary boss a mystery," Jared Kotler, 6/1/2001, Associated Press Worldstream www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=126   (795 words)

United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) Indictment Today the Department of Justice is unsealing an indictment charging leaders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, with trafficking over 17 tons of cocaine into the United States and Europe since 1997. The United States has requested the extradition of all three of these defendants from the Republic of Colombia, one of our closest international law enforcement partners. Since 1997, there have been more than 50 extraditions of Colombian nationals to the United States. www.ict.org.il /documents/documentdet.cfm?docid=60   (755 words)

CNNfyi.com - Lesson plan: Colombia in crisis - February 8, 2001 Analyze the philosophies of the Colombian government, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. Have students create compromise solutions for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the government of Colombia based upon their findings. Develop a proposal for a compromise between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/fyi/lesson.plans/02/08/colombian.rebels   (572 words)

Auc - United Self-Defense Forces/Group of Colombia (AUC) The United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) is the umbrella The AUC, short for Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, is currently the fastest growing The Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, AUC), AUC itself estimates that it has authority over about 90% of the The AUC is supported by economic elites, drug traffickers, AUC forces are strongest in the northwest of Colombia in Antioquia, Cordoba, Sucre, supersearching.com /?q=auc   (336 words)

Online NewsHour: Colombia's Civil War: AUC The United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) is the umbrella organization for right-wing paramilitaries operating in northern parts of the nation. The AUC traces its roots to Colombia's regional "self-defense" movement of the 1950s when wealthy landowners commissioned regional militias to defend their property and business interests from marauding bandits, peasants, and early leftist groups. Part of its popularity, State Department officials say, is due to the sparse presence of federal security forces in the rural parts of the country. www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/latin_america/colombia/players_auc.html   (850 words)

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