11 FEBRUARY
MINISTER IN PHOTO OP WITH COLOMBIAN DEATH SQUADS GENERAL
[ 11 February 2008 ]
On 11 February 2008, The Guardian published a photo of a smiling Foreign Office Minister, Kim Howells, posing alongside General Mario Montoya, head of the Colombian Army, along with soldiers from the High Mountains Battalions (HMB). These were infamous elite units which had been associated with the disappearance and extra judicial executions of dozens of trade union activists and young homeless men.
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