The results were obtained by comparing the number of reports of such killings in the two years prior to the start of Plan Colombia -- the multibillion-dollar U.S. military aid package -- in 2000 with the number of killings after the launch of that counterinsurgency and anti-drug strategy.
It also found that reports of alleged killings of civilians by the army dropped when assistance was cut.
"Whatever correlation may exist between assistance and reported killings, there are clearly other factors contributing to high levels of killings. Yet, while we could not fix the causes of increased reports of killings after increases in U.S. assistance, our findings highlight the need for a thorough investigation into the reasons for this apparent correlation," the authors say.
"The U.S. government should respond to the questions raised by the report," Lindsay-Poland said.
So, your average comfortable USian or Canadian will go: "How odd. If it's true (and we can't trust these left-wing, anti-American kooks) it's certainly a disturbing aberration and I hope something is done about it."
In other news, Glenn Beck said something crazily unfair about poor Barack Obama. The cad!
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