Ex-paramilitary leader implicates top army officials in massacres .
Ex-paramilitary leader implicates top army officials in massacres .
Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:48 Esteban Manriquez
A former paramilitary leader named retired Colombian army generals as complicit in massacres in the northern Norte de Santander province during the late 1990s, reported El Tiempo Monday.
Former AUC paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso claimed retired Colombian Generals Alberto Bravo Silva and Mario Cuervo Fernando Roa, collaborated with him and his criminal organization to take control of the Norte De Santander region, in Colombia’s northeast. Mancuso also named Colonel Victor Hugo Matamoros, former aide to commander General Alejandro Navas, as an accomplice.
It is alleged that in May 1999, the AUC sought to stymie guerrilla influence in Norte de Santander, killing some 150 people in more than a dozen attacks over the following three months. The worst massacre occurred in the town of La Gabarra where 50 farmers were murdered.
According to the ex-paramilitary, the former general Silva facilitated an AUC raid in the village Socuavo on May 29, 1999, in which five people were killed.
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