Okay. I'm just going to read some excerpts from the report, because it's hardly any sort of endorsement of the Uribe government.
They express concern over the high number of extrajudicial executions reported--approximately 900--and say that the victims are unlawfully taken into custody at their homes or workplaces and are taken to a place of execution. Persons executed or “disappeared” are generally campesinos, indigenous persons, labourers, youth, disadvantaged persons, or community leaders. Military or police report that the victims are insurgents who died in combat; often the victims turn up wearing uniforms and with arms and military equipment of various kinds.
The victims are selected at random. Frequently the bodies show signs of torture. They are stripped of personal objects and their identification papers are disposed of. Bodies are taken to places far from where the abduction occurred. There are serious difficulties locating family members to identify the body. Members of the military and police are given financial and professional incentives and rewards.
This is hardly an endorsement of the Uribe government's military arm--hardly--so when we talk about hard empirical data, I think we have to actually look at the reports that are coming out. Anyone can express an opinion. Mr. Dade, and I'd think you'd concur with me on this, but we have report after report after report actually indicating something quite different from what you've been saying to us.
The other question I want to ask you is whether you have read the CENSAT report that came out just a few weeks ago. It's entitled “Land and Conflict--Resource Extraction, Human Rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility: Canadian Companies in Colombia”.