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>Subject: Colombia Killings, Albright, & biowarfare
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>Colombia Killings, Albright, & biowarfare
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>Democracy Now, Pacifica Radio, democracy@pacifica.org
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>Democracy NOW! Pacifica Radio
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>July 25, 2000
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>Senator Paul Wellstone Demands Albright Investigate "Killing Frenzy" In
>Colombia
>
> Last week, President Clinton signed a $1.6 billion military aid bill
> for Colombia, allegedly to be used in the so called war on drugs. This
> aid package comes at a time when numerous massacres committed by forces
> linked to the U.S.-backed Colombian military, are being uncovered. It's
> interesting that The New York Times ran a front page article on one of
> these massacres that took place in February. The piece ran a day after
> Clinton signed the aid package.
>
> The article began like this:
> The armed men, more than 300 of them marched into the tiny village of
> El Salado, early on a Friday. They went straight to the basketball court
> that doubles as the main square, residents said, announced themselves as
> members of Colombia's most fear right-wing paramilitary group, and with a
> list of names began summoning residents for judgment.
> A table and chairs were taken from a house and after the death squad
> leader made himself comfortable, the basketball court was turned into a
> court of execution, villagers said. The paramilitary troops ordered
> liquor and music, and then embarked on a calculated rampage of torture,
> rape and killing.
>
> That was from The New York Times. Well, this massacre and others have
> prompted Senator Paul Wellstone-Democrat from Minnesota-to call on
> Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to investigate the reported murder
> and disappearance of 71 civilians in El Salado and the murder of six
> civilians last weekend in La Union, Colombia. We did ask the State
> Department to join us on today's program. They turned down our offer.
>
>GUEST:
> o SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE, is a Democrat from Minnesota. He has just
> sent a letter to Madeleine Albright demanding an investigation into
> recent massacres in Colombia.
>For more information: www.senate.gov/%7Ewellstone/
>
>Drug Control Or Biowarfare Against Colombia?
> Under pressure from the United States, Colombia has reluctantly agreed
> to take the first step toward developing a powerful biological herbicide.
> But scientists and environmentalists say it is virtually a biological
> weapon. They say that along with killing coca plants, the toxic fungus
> may pose serious dangers to the environment and human health. These
> threats are so serious that Florida has suspended plans to test the
> fungus for its own anti-drug efforts.
>
> For years, United States officials have been quietly debating ways to
> conduct field tests of such an herbicide.
> According to the New York Times, some powerful Republicans in Congress
> told Colombian officials they were supporting the US aid package to
> Colombia on the expectation that Colombia would agree to explore the use
> of Fusarium fungus in its coca fields.
>
> Within the Clinton administration, according to the Times, the testing
> of fungal herbicides was also pushed by the White House drug czar, Gen.
> Barry R. McCaffrey, and by officials of the United States Southern
> Command, which is overseeing the American overhaul of Colombia's armed forces.
> For some years, lawyers at the White House and the State Department
> debated whether it was possible to use the fungal herbicide on drug crops
> without violating the international conventions against the spread of
> biological weapons. The lawyers determined that the law would not be
> violated if a foreign country made its own decision to use or test the fungus.
>
>GUESTS:
> o JEREMY BIGWOOD, is an ethnobotanist and journalist based in
> Washington D.C. He co-authored the piece "Drug Control or Biowarfare?" in
> Mother Jones.
> o SHARON STEVENSON, is a freelance journalist who has lived and
> worked in Peru for eleven years.
>She co-authored the piece "Drug Control or Biowarfare?" in Mother Jones.
>www.motherjones.com/news_wire/coca.html
>




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