Colombia Can’t Forget FARC Concentration Camps

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Colombia Can’t Forget FARC Concentration Camps
By Vanessa Vallejo


General Luis Herlindo Mendieta says it clearly. He and his fellow captives were locked up in concentration camps inspired by the ones built by the Nazis to torture Jewish people. (Youtube)

Spanish – He lived for 12 years with a chain around his neck. The wires of the cage blurred everything his eyes saw during that time. He even had to see the sky through the mesh that prevented him and his fellow police and military officers from escaping their torturers.

General Luis Herlindo Mendieta says it clearly. He and his fellow captives were locked up in concentration camps inspired by the ones built by the Nazis to torture Jewish people. The images of the corroded wooden bunks, where the heroes of the country tried for years -without any success, according to General Mendieta- to sleep, seem to be taken from a movie of the Second World War.

They were always sick; they always had stomach ailments. Their food was always of poor quality. They had to endure their illnesses with plastic jars and holes in the ground that served as bathrooms. A “bath” that was right next to where they slept because the chain on their neck did not let them move more than two miserable meters. That’s why the General says that the smells didn’t even let them sleep.

Read more at: https://panampost.com/vanesa-vallejo/2020/01/08/colombia-farc-concentration-camps/