<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e446be22-f8b9-41ea-bc45-51937e1421d6/6FC3D87A-3164-4AF8-978B-F32B6A140B20/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=345944&CategoryId=12393" href="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=345944&CategoryId=12393" style="font-size: 11px;">www.laht.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=345944&CategoryId=12393"><A class="topstheader">Colombian Backs Probe of VP’s Alleged Links to Militias</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=345944&CategoryId=12393">WASHINGTON – Colombian activist Principe Gabriel Gonzalez, who this week will receive an award in New York for his human rights work, on Wednesday expressed support for the re-opening of a probe into Colombian Vice President Francisco “Paco” Santos’ possible ties to murderous right-wing militias.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=345944&CategoryId=12393">The commission also for the first time invited Margaret Sekaggya, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on human rights defenders, who last month conducted a fact-finding mission in Colombia,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=345944&CategoryId=12393"><DIV>According to Gonzalez, while many demobilized militiamen are cooperating with investigators, little is known of their activities, where their funding came from, who benefited from and ordered their crimes and why their offenses have often gone unpunished.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=345944&CategoryId=12393">“the paramilitaries remain active, continue to displace peasants and threaten the civilian population and continue to attack (human rights) defenders.”</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6FC3D87A-3164-4AF8-978B-F32B6A140B20/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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