These kinds of human-rights abuses are going to be resorted to ever more as the anti-colonial and class struggles intensify, being utilized by imperialist-bloc countries like India, Australia, Brazil, and many more; even South Africa has recently been normalizing its old apartheid-discrimination patterns by proliferating private contractors, which are policing Africans disproportionately. The colonial sphere is more blatantly adopting the genocidal ideology of Israel's new prime minister Naftali Bennet, who's sought to justify Israel's genocide against the Palestinians by claiming: "Hamas is conducting massive self-genocide. They're taking women and children, placing them next to missile launchers, and shooting the missiles at Israel."
The atrocities that this colonial bloc commits can only be rationalized by trying to foist the blame for the constant deaths of innocents onto the rebel groups, which the Reason article implicitly does for Colombia by saying that "The country's hard left, led by former guerrilla member and now-Senator Gustavo Petro, wants the world to believe that Colombia is under an illegitimate, authoritarian regime that systematically abuses human rights. Colombia, however, is still a liberal democracy, imperfect and now beleaguered, that is fighting to preserve the republican institutions that its neighbors have either lost--as in the case of Venezuela--or may be about to lose, as in the case of Peru." If genocide is what these institutions create, they should be dismantled.
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