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Acknowledgments

This report was researched and written by the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch. Anne Manuel, consultant, Aisling Reidy, senior legal advisor, Joe Saunders, deputy program director, Elise Keppler, senior International Justice counsel, and José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch edited the report.

Americas Division associates Paola Adriazola, Kavita Shah and Danielle Wainer contributed to research logistics, production, and editing. Alisha Holland, Princeton Fellow in Latin America, Dr. Charles T. Call, consultant, and Daniel Wilkinson, Americas deputy director, participated in early research missions. Americas Division consultant Abby Rubinson and intern Steve Hege provided valuable research support. Grace Choi, Anna Lopriore, Veronica Matushaj, and Fitzroy Hepkins provided invaluable production assistance.

Human Rights Watch thanks the many Colombian officials, human rights advocates, lawyers, journalists, and victims of paramilitary violence who agreed to speak with us and without whom this report would not have been possible. Many of them asked not to be named for security reasons.