X.A cknowledgements

The report was edited by Joanne Mariner, Deputy Director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch.Dinah Pokempner provided international law guidance.Americas Division Executive Director Jos Miguel Vivanco and Deputy Program Director Joe Saunders also made editorial contributions.Americas Division Associate Jennifer Nagle, Andrea Holley, Veronica Matushaj, and Fitzroy Hepkins provided invaluable production assistance.

Human Rights Watch is grateful to the many persons who assisted us in the course of our field research, many of whom asked not to be named for security reasons.

Recent Human Rights Watch Reports on Colombia

Letting Paramilitaries Off the Hook, 2005

http://hrw.org/backgrounder/americas/colombia0105/

You'll Learn Not to Cry:Child Combatants in Colombia, 2003

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/colombia0903/

A Wrong Turn:The Record of the Colombian Attorney General's Office, 2002

http://hrw.org/reports/2002/colombia/

The "Sixth Division":Military-Paramilitary Ties and U.S. Policy in Colombia, 2001

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/colombia/

Beyond Negotiation:International Humanitarian Law and Its Application to the Conduct of the FARC-EP

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/farc/

The Ties That Bind:Colombia and Military-Paramilitary Links, 2000

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/colombia/

War Without Quarter:Colombia and International Humanitarian Law, 1998

http://www.hrw.org/reports98/colombia/

Colombia's Killer Networks:The Military-Paramilitary Partnership and the United States, 1996

http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/killertoc.htm