Archive - May 5, 2008

COLOMBIA: "Is that legal?" Campesino conversations with government human rights workers.

"The Army treats us like dirt," said another farmer." They have checkpoints on the paths to our fields, and they stop us and accuse us of being guerrillas and detain us for hours at a time. They entice our children with candy and then try to pump them for information. Is that legal? Sometimes people just disappear and are never heard from again."