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The “Sixth Division”: Military-paramilitary Ties and U.S. Policy in Colombia

List of Abbreviations

ASFADDES: Association of Relatives of Detainees and Missing Persons

AUC: United Self-Defense Groups of Colombia

CCJ: Colombian Commission of Jurists

CINEP: Center for Research and Popular Education

CNP: Colombian National Police

CODHES: Advisory Office for Human Rights and Displacement

COEMM: Middle Magdalena Special Operative Command of the Colombian National Police

CREDHOS: Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Rights

CTI: Technical Investigation Unit of the Office of the Attorney General

CUT: Trade Union Confederation

DAS: Administrative Department of Security

Defensoría del Pueblo: Public Advocate

EUM: End-Use Monitoring report

FARC-EP: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army

Fiscalía General de la Nación: Attorney General's Office

GRUDH-INSGE: Colombian National Police Human Rights Office

IACHR: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States

ICRC: International Committee of the Red Cross

INL: U.S. State Department Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

INPEC: National Prison System Institute

MAS: Death to Kidnappers

MINGA: Association for the Promotion of Social Alternatives

OFP: Popular Women's Organization

ONDCP: White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

PBI: Peace Brigades International

Procuraduría General de la Nación: the government's Internal Affairs agency

UNHCHR: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

UC-ELN: National Liberation Army-Camilist Union

UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund

USAID: U.S. Agency for International Development 86




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