The Chronicle News Blog: Colombian Death-Squad Leader Testifies About ‘Clean Up’ at University
Bogotá, Colombia — A much-feared leader of paramilitary death squads here gave new details this week about his reign of terror over a Colombian university. And a leader of a faculty union said later that the paramilitary groups’ sway over the university continues today.
The paramilitary leader, Salvatore Mancuso, who has turned himself in to the authorities as part of a peace deal with the government, testified in court that he had ordered his fighters to “clean up” the University of Córdoba, a public institution on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. The result was the killing of at least five professors, whom he listed by name, from 2000 to 2003. The testimony echoed statements he made in January about events at the university.
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