AUC (The United Self-Defences of Colombia), known as the death squad of the right-wing Para-Military group. Training Scene at a military camp, Yondo, Colombia
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AUC (The United Self-Defences of Colombia), known as the death squad of the right-wing Para-Military group. Training Scene at a military camp, Yondo, Colombia
From Got Rights? Human Rights in Colombia
2001
Chromogenic development print
Image: 9 15/16 × 14 7/8 in. (25.3 × 37.8 cm)
Gift of the FiftyCrows Foundation, 2015
Inscriptions Inscribed in black marker on verso, TLC: #6
Inscribed in pencil on applied label on verso, BLC: goto06
Typed on paper adhered to verso, C: 6 \ Right-wing paramilitary, Untied Self-defense group of Colombia (AUC) which was \ formed in the early 1980s to protect villages (some cases drug traffickers) from left-/wing guerrilla attacks and kidnappings, these disparate paramilitary groups \ organized in early 1997 into the AUC. Now had 10,000 fighters, is responsible for about 75 percent of all politically motivated killings. \ The paramilitary groups were declared illegal, but evidence is widespread of complicity between the colombian military and the "paras(AUC)". \ Puerto Barrio, April 2001
Inscribed in pencil on applied label on verso, BLC: goto06
Typed on paper adhered to verso, C: 6 \ Right-wing paramilitary, Untied Self-defense group of Colombia (AUC) which was \ formed in the early 1980s to protect villages (some cases drug traffickers) from left-/wing guerrilla attacks and kidnappings, these disparate paramilitary groups \ organized in early 1997 into the AUC. Now had 10,000 fighters, is responsible for about 75 percent of all politically motivated killings. \ The paramilitary groups were declared illegal, but evidence is widespread of complicity between the colombian military and the "paras(AUC)". \ Puerto Barrio, April 2001
