Trouble in Colombia’s armed forces

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The world is still celebrating Colombia’s spectacular July rescue of 15 hostages (see the La Plaza post here) held for years in the jungle by leftist insurgents, which will go down in history as a textbook example of planning, cunning and military precision.

But amid the rejoicing, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the hostage-takers are not the only murderous thugs on the loose. Colombia needs to turn its attention to the growing number of murders allegedly committed by its armed forces, says this Los Angeles Times editorial.

Click here to read more of the editorial on Colombia’s armed forces here. Chris Kraul, our correspondent in Colombia, filed this dispatch on the rising number of killings by armed forces in Colombia in late August.

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