That is the figure that TeleSur reports in the video below (in Spanish language), based on a "legal medicine" report: 38,255 desaparecidos between 2007 and 2009 alone, a figure that keeps growing.
This figure is already larger than the one attributed to the military dictatorship in Argentina, which includes almost a whole decade of violent repression.
In the last two decades of dirty war, some 250,000 Colombians have been disappeared by the army or the tightly related death squads (paramilitares). Many may have been thrown to crocodiles in commercial farms.
In spite of all these systematic atrocities against the civilians, amounting to genocide (as whole areas are being depopulated in order to rob and sell the lands to multinationals), the EU and, very specially, the USA keep supporting the criminal regime. Colombia is one of the largest receivers of US military aid worldwide, second after Israel I believe.
Colombia also has the largest armed forces in Latin America competing in size with those of a great power: Brazil, what is generally perceived as having the potential to de-stabilize the region.
Cargado por teleSUR_tv. - Mira las noticias más recientes en video.
Source: Cuestionatelotodo[es].
More information on the Colombian criminal state in this blog: The horror of Colombia and category: Colombia.
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