How Israel Facilitated the Guatemalan Genocide

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11. Another article from a Colombian publication, Google translated:

Israel, the chainsaw and the paramilitary massacres in Colombia

By Wari

11/26/2023

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Current Events / Colombia / Columns / Justice and Human Rights / Latin America / Politics

Today, when Israel carries out before our eyes, live and direct, the genocide of the Palestinian population, we evoke the criminal impact that the intervention of mercenaries and Israeli soldiers has had in the formation of paramilitary groups of murderers, which They bloodied this country and one of whose most terrifying symbols of death has been the chainsaw.

By Renán Vega Cantor

El Tiempo , an official newspaper of the establishment, published on November 10, 1998 a news item with the headline: “The terror of the chainsaw is back” and in its first paragraphs it said: “Twelve dead were left until yesterday by the incursion of one hundred paramilitaries, who toured the districts of Santa Isabel , in Remedios , and El Tigre , in Vegachí , last weekend. The peasants of these Antioquia towns reported that several of their neighbors were mutilated with chainsaws and then buried in mass graves by paramilitaries who identified themselves as the R-20 group , a faction of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).” Do not think that this information was something exceptional; On the contrary, news about the use of the chainsaw and other bestial forms of torture were the daily bread of this country for long and endless years.

The brutal act of using the chainsaw to destroy human beings (specifically guerrillas, peasants, social leaders and left-wing politicians) was a recurring practice by paramilitary groups in this country, during the period 1988-2010 and extends until the present due to the existence of pique houses in some places in Colombia . This is something that should produce universal condemnation, similar to that received by genocides and other crimes against humanity, mainly those carried out by Nazi Germany and as the genocidal crimes of the State of Israel should receive .

The chainsaw has acquired a media presence these days, because in the Argentine elections the far-right candidate Javier Milei has used it as one of the distinctive symbols of his presidential campaign and, in addition, has raised the bloody flag of Israel. This update of the chainsaw in the Latin American panorama of the moment serves to remind us of the dark relationship between Israel and the Colombian paramilitaries, who turned this device into a weapon of torture and death, as an expression of the Creole "learning" of criminal techniques with brand of Israel.

ISRAEL INSTRUCTS PARAMILITARY KILLERS
The ideologues and instructors in the use of the chainsaw as an instrument of terror were the Israeli military and mercenaries who in the late 1980s trained hitmen and murderers, who were linked to the Medellín Cartel , landowners and ranchers in Magdalena Medio. , to political leaders of Puerto Boyacá , to soldiers of the Colombian Army and other instances of the State. Between 1986 and 1988, soldiers and mercenaries from the Israeli Army made their presence in Colombia and came to prepare a body of assassins, with the Zionist slogan of eliminating, using all the means at their disposal, the insurgent movements, their social bases and all those forces or movements (of farmers, workers, students, teachers, urban residents) that were considered “enemies” of Colombian-style capitalism.

Among those instructors and advisors were Rafael 'Rafi' Eitan , a member of the State of Israel's espionage, with an impressive terrorist and counterinsurgency record in several countries around the world. This individual was hired, secretly, as an advisor to the government of Virgilio Barco [1986-1990] and as revealed by journalist Alberto Donadío , he was the one who recommended the extermination of the Unión Patriota. And it was not difficult for him to suggest how to eliminate this left-wing political party, whose strength at that time was important in certain rural areas and small towns of the country, since it had extensive experience in persecuting and exterminating Palestinians in the occupied territories. At the same time, Eitan intervened in the negotiation and purchase of Israeli aircraft by the Colombian Army, during which time Israeli pilots trained Colombian pilots in bombing peasants and insurgents.

Klein trained brothers Carlos and Fidel Castaño , the squad leaders who would later form the notoriously violent United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). Under the patronage of wealthy landowners, drug traffickers, ranchers, Colombian politicians and military personnel, the AUC committed gruesome massacres across the country, even using chainsaws to murder and dismember peasants, all with the goal of terrorizing communities into fleeing. of their lands.”

Another of Israel's mercenaries, the most famous of all, is Yair Klein , who also has an endless criminal record in various places around the world. And in Colombia he was the main instructor of the Magdalena Medio murderers, who later dispersed throughout the national territory, leaving in their wake an endless trail of blood and horror.

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