Imprisoned paramilitary leader asks forgiveness from victims

[Judi Lynn]

Imprisoned paramilitary leader asks forgiveness from victims
May 13, 2014 posted by Alexandra Jolly

One of Colombia’s most notorious former paramilitary leaders has publicly apologized to victims of his crimes via video link from his prison in the Unites States, local media reported on Tuesday.

The former leader of Colombia’s now defunct United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group, Salvatore Mancuso, along with 11 other imprisoned paramilitaries, asked for forgiveness from their victims via video link from the US at a hearing held in the city of Cartagena, northern Colombia.

The former paramilitary chief, extradited to the United States in 2008 on drug trafficking charges, sent the message that “if I could turn back time I would avoid the massacres I ordered…my heart is repentant,” to his victims. The message was delivered at a hearing in Cartagena to identify the damage done by the AUC and the affect they had on their estimated 10,000 victims.

Mancuso was not the only one to send a message of apology. Among the others was Uber Enrique Banquez Martinez , alias “Juancho Dique”, who confessed that the 14 or 15 massacres he took part in still “haunt him at night.”

More:
http://colombiareports.co/imprisoned-ex-paramilitary-asks-forgiveness-victims/

[Xipe Totec]

1. He can apologize to the victims in person, once he passes. nt