It should have been several hours since the massacre, because the corpse is as cold as autumn plaster and as hard as petrified foam.
More than 3000 bodies of men, women, and children will all be loaded onto a train like spoiled bananas and dumped into the sea.
The sky began to rain, lasting for four years, eleven months, and two days, as if washing away all traces.
This is a tragic scene written by the great writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez in “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.

At first, we only thought that such a magical plot was just an exaggeration by the author.
But we never imagined that decades later, even more exaggerated things would happen in the writer’s homeland.
On December 5th, the United Nations Committee on Forced Disappearance (CED) released a report titled “Colombia: Forced Disappearance is Not a Legacy of the Past, but a Daily Reality,” claiming that approximately 20000 unidentified bodies were stored in a hangar at El Dorado International Airport in Bogot á, the capital of Colombia.
Not two, not 200, but 20000!
What is the concept of 20000 corpses? Let me put it this way, the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics had only 20000 spectators.
To be honest, when I first saw this news, most people didn’t believe it.
After all, this is beyond people’s imagination. The hangar is not a cold storage, nor is it sealed. How can we store 20000 bodies? Stacked up? Dried into a mummy? Or marinate it? Isn’t Colombia’s tropical climate smelly? The smell of corpses can easily dissipate with a slight gap, and blood will flow everywhere. If there are 20000 corpses in the hangar, how could no one know?
If we look up the original CED report, we will find that their statement is “Thousands of unidentified bodies are lying in graves or poorly managed warehouses, such as a hangar at Bogota Airport, where approximately 20000 unidentified bodies are currently stored
Chinese media, on the other hand, took the initiative to add the word “discovery” when translating.
Obviously, this may be another charming moment for Zhang Xuefeng’s evaluation of journalism.

At present, there are no photos as evidence for these 20000 bodies, and representatives from the Colombian Attorney General’s Office have inspected 27 hangars at El Dorado International Airport and have not found any traces of bodies. Bogota Mayor Garland has requested the United Nations to provide “verifiable evidence”.
Interestingly, on December 6th, Carlos, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in Colombia, issued a statement claiming that CED is an independent expert committee that does not represent the Secretary General of the United Nations or any UN entity.
The meaning is that the United Nations is not willing to endorse CED’s investigation report.
Although CED has been given the United Nations flag, it is not a permanent institution of the United Nations, but an independent organization established under the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Forced Disappearance adopted by the United Nations. It is mainly composed of 10 human rights experts to inspect and investigate the implementation of the Convention by contracting parties.
As soon as we hear the name “human rights expert”, we will know what the organization is like. Is it still rare for “human rights experts” of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to spread rumors about China?
Coincidentally, among the five permanent members, except for France, China, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom have not signed this Treaty.
So, you say CED is not authoritative, it can indeed act under the banner of the United Nations; But you must say that CED is authoritative, even four out of the five permanent members do not recognize it. Its level of investigation and impartiality of stance are indeed questionable.
At present, Colombia is furious, and CED is not giving in at all. The two sides are deadlocked, and to confirm this news, bullets may need to fly for a while.
However, it is highly likely that this matter will not be resolved.
Why? Because neither side’s buttocks are clean.
How did the news of these 20000 bodies come about for CED? In fact, CED sent two commissioners, Rosa Quintana and Juan Alen Castro, to fly around Colombia and hold meetings with some Colombian NGOs, but they didn’t hear it with their own eyes.
In other words, the two members of CED did not witness the “20000 bodies in the hangar” with their own eyes, but instead relied on the information they heard and did not conduct any verification. They did not think that putting the 20000 bodies in the hangar was unscientific, so they wrote it directly in the report, creating a shocking news that shocked the world.
It seems that the Grass Terrace team is everywhere, even the United Nations is no exception.
If we don’t find 20000 bodies in Colombia, CED will be slapping itself in the face.
For Colombia, although it is desperately denying the claim of ‘hiding bodies at the airport’, one thing is certain:
Colombia is really a country where there may be a large number of unclaimed bodies.
Because as early as 2011, Colombia had launched a project to collect fingerprints from nearly 10000 bodies buried in mass graves across the country and compare them with data from the National Archives, confirming the identities of 9969 deceased individuals. In addition, there are at least 10000 bodies whose identities cannot be confirmed.
If CED continues to investigate this matter and pulls out the radish and mud, it is obviously not good for Colombia either.
So, this matter has been lively for a while, and both sides may have a tacit understanding to reduce the heat.
So, what’s going on in Colombia? Why is CED targeting Colombia?

01

Colombia, located in the northern part of South America, borders Venezuela and Brazil to the east, Ecuador and Peru to the south, the Pacific Ocean to the west, Panama to the northwest, and the Caribbean Sea to the north. It is one of the few countries in South America with two oceans.

Due to its tropical location, Colombia has lush vegetation, with forests accounting for 51.9% of the country’s total. Its reputation for producing coffee, flowers, and beautiful women attracts the attention of the world, making people yearn for it.
Colombia also has abundant mineral resources, including oil, natural gas, coal, gold, nickel, and especially emerald reserves, which are the world’s largest. A considerable portion of the emeralds in Chinese jewelry counters come from Colombia.
However, no matter how beautiful the scenery and abundant the resources of Colombia are, they cannot conceal its inherent disorder and sorrow——
civil war.
In the 1960s, due to skyrocketing international coffee and meat prices, plantation owners in Colombia began to expand their production capacity and, with the support of the military, demanded that farmers relocate from the land where they had lived for generations.
This kind of thing of cutting off children and grandchildren naturally triggered resolute resistance and armed counterattacks from the peasant community.
Coincidentally, at that time Latin America was at the peak of left-wing ideology, and the displaced peasants quickly organized themselves under the leadership of Trotskyists and anarchists, launching armed struggles.
In 1964, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FRAC) and the National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN) were successively declared established, marking the beginning of the Colombian Civil War.

Under the eyes of the United States, the emergence of left-wing guerrillas is clearly disturbing to Americans. So the United States has been providing military assistance to the Colombian government to help them eliminate left-wing guerrillas.
But unfortunately, the government army fought five scumbags, and the guerrilla forces became stronger and stronger. At their peak, they occupied 41% of Colombia’s land.
However, in order to survive under the encirclement and suppression of the government army, the actions of left-wing guerrillas sometimes have no limits, often resorting to kidnapping, murder, bomb explosions, and robbery to raise funds. Even left-wing guerrilla groups are still cultivating cocaine and producing and selling cocaine in southeastern Colombia, in order to obtain huge amounts of funds for purchasing weapons and ammunition.
In order to cope with the guerrilla forces’ land division, Colombian landlords have also established a group of local security forces, such as the right-wing local self-defense armed group “Colombian United Self Defense Forces”, etc. When besieging the guerrillas, they are even more fierce than the government army.
In addition, there are also a variety of drug lords who have formed armed groups equipped no less than the government army to attack all forces that affect their drug trafficking business, whether it is guerrilla groups or government forces. Even armed conflicts may occur between various drug trafficking armed groups due to their spheres of influence, drug trafficking routes, and so on.
All armed chalk and ink appeared, and the whole Colombia became a pot of porridge.

This one is 52 years.
By the time of the ceasefire in Colombia in 2016, the civil war had resulted in over 220000 deaths, over 500000 injuries, and over 6.7 million people displaced.
However, soon another organization claiming to be “dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia” came forward and refused to recognize the ceasefire agreement, sparking another civil war that has not stopped until now.
Obviously, the Colombian civil war is far from over.
During times of war, human life is like grass, and any rule will be completely destroyed, even the most basic human rights are no exception.
For example, mandatory conscription.
Compulsory conscription is not uncommon. In the past, the Kuomintang extensively recruited conscripts, which was one of the methods for the rapid expansion of the military.
However, during the Colombian Civil War, not only were there conscripted soldiers, but also children.

In decades of guerrilla warfare, both the FARC and ELN, as well as various militias and government forces, have records of forced conscription. Especially the FARC, who have kidnapped 18667 boys and girls (recorded numbers) and turned them into cannon fodder for guerrilla forces.
Children are the cheapest and most efficient weapons, with almost no need to pay for recruitment. They only need cheap food and a little training to be sent to the battlefield, and the effect may be even better.
There is a line in “The King of War”: A bullet fired by a 14-year-old child is as deadly as one fired by a 40 year old man, perhaps even more deadly.
Why? Because adults tend to be timid, weigh the pros and cons, and slack off. But for children aged thirteen or fourteen in the second stage, as long as they are well coaxed, they will be fearless and even braver.
In this way, a large number of children died in the civil war, slowly decaying like fallen leaves in the tropical rainforests of Colombia and disappearing.

No one knows who they are, nor where they died, so they became ‘missing persons’.
Even worse, a large number of girls and even boys have become sex slaves for various guerrilla groups.
Former FARC female soldier Amir Noscu once accused the FARC of atrocities in the Colombian War Crimes Court. At the age of 15, she was kidnapped by the FARC from her home and taken to a FARC camp in Tolima, central Colombia. A few hours later, she was raped.
FARC also told her that sex was her contribution to the revolution.
Shortly after, Amir Noscu became pregnant, but it was unknown who the father of the child was, possibly any one of dozens of soldiers.
However, the guerrillas do not support pregnant women. At six months pregnant, Amir Noscu was forced to have an abortion. “They held me down, gave me medicine, and I immediately bled. It was too painful
Amir Noscu was lucky to survive, but more girls, fearing that they would be captured by government forces and exposed, were often shot in advance when the situation was unfavorable. Sometimes, even though the government army can capture them, they are afraid that they are human bombs left by guerrillas, so they often choose to randomly shoot and kill them before proceeding.

According to reports from Colombia, most of the unclaimed bodies in mass graves in 2011 were caused by the civil war, but for those underage bodies, their identities cannot be confirmed because they are not yet of age for fingerprinting and DNA testing.
How many people left their homes without any news during the Colombian Civil War? No one knows.

02

In addition to the civil war, human trafficking in Colombia may also be one of the sources of unclaimed bodies.
According to the Global Report on Human Trafficking, sovereign countries and regions around the world are classified into four levels: Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 2 Watch List, and Tier 3.
Tier 1 is the most optimal, while Tier 3 is the most severe.
And what about Colombia? Tier 2 watch list, only slightly better than the worst.
Why has Colombia become a country with serious human trafficking?
Because every gray industry in Colombia is seamlessly integrated with human trafficking.
For example, drugs.
Let’s talk about some cold knowledge first. We all know about the Golden Triangle, but where is the Silver Triangle? Many people may not be aware that the Silver Triangle is actually located in the southern part of Colombia, at the border with northern Peru and northwestern Bolivia.
Before the popularity of synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine, this was one of the world’s three major drug producing areas.
However, unlike the Golden Triangle and Afghanistan, the main drug crop here is coca bush.

Poppy, marijuana, and coca are known as the three major drug plants in the world. Coca bush has special requirements for its growth environment, such as long sunshine and low rainfall but moist soil, and Colombia is just right for it.
In 1855, German chemist Friedrich first extracted the anesthetic component from Eucommia ulmoides leaves and named it “Erythroxylon”. Four years later, Frederick’s colleague Newman refined a higher purity substance and renamed it “Cocaine” for use as an anesthetic.
But people soon discovered that cocaine can be used as a drug!
The reason is very simple. Cocaine produces more euphoria than heroin, so it has been called “aristocratic drug”, and is very popular with high-end people in Europe and the United States. The range of consumption covers international models and night stars. Even Joe Biden’s son Hunter also smokes cocaine, and even the Coca Cola formula before 1903 also contains cocaine.

In the 1960s, the hippie movement and anti war movement swept across the United States, and a large number of young people began to take drugs from anesthesia, leading to an explosive growth in demand for drugs.
Before the invention of the “American Dead Body Drug Transport” route in the Golden Triangle, the Colombian cocaine trade, which was closer to the United States, emerged.
The huge market in the United States greatly stimulated the production of cocaine in Colombia. In the dense rainforest, farmers hired by drug lords dried and crushed coca trees into powder, and then extracted them with organic solvents to obtain crude products. Subsequently, cocaine was further purified through methods such as recrystallization.
Although the process is tedious, the production of cocaine from tree leaves is much larger than heroin that relies on fruit. The production cost per kilogram is only $1500, but it can be sold to the United States for $50000!
The high profits stimulated a large number of Colombians to invest in this industry, with some picking, some producing, some transporting, some selling, some distributing, and some smuggling. At the peak of the cocaine industry, one tenth of Colombia’s population worked in this drug industry chain.
The harm caused by this drug economy to Colombia is not only due to its reputation as a ‘drug country’, but more importantly, it destroys people’s hearts.
People, once they make too much money, they can never go back.
Millions of Colombians, due to the excessive profits brought by drug trafficking, have lost the habit of working hard to get rich and only want to make quick money. Moreover, because they are engaged in industries such as drugs that are independent of the socio-economic system and do not require social order, they have no respect for the law. On the contrary, the law can become an obstacle to their ability to make money.
This leads to once the drug business is blocked, these people will not live honestly and will only switch to other gray industries.
For example, human trafficking.
In recent years, under pressure from the United States, the Colombian government has vigorously cracked down on drugs. President Petro announced a new anti drug policy for the next decade in October last year, calling for a decisive battle against drugs.
By intensifying the crackdown, Colombia seized 395 tons of cocaine and 267 tons of marijuana from January 1 to June 20 this year, destroyed over 2000 drug factories, eradicated more than 2 million coca trees, cut off multiple drug criminal networks, and severely impacted the production and funding chains of drug trafficking groups.

If drug lords can survive by relying on past accumulation, then those who make a living in the drug industry chain can only take a different path and transfer to the track of human trafficking.
Human trafficking in Colombia is mainly divided into three categories: pornography, organ trafficking, and human trafficking.
In July of this year, the Spanish national police dismantled a forced prostitution criminal gang and arrested 26 people, including two main leaders.
After investigation, it was found that this gang had more than 600 prostitutes under their command, most of whom came from Colombia and a small number from Venezuela. These women must be on standby 24/7 and monitored by multiple cameras 24/7, ready to receive customers within 5 minutes at any time. They are also forced to provide various drugs to clients, such as cocaine and methamphetamine.
How did these women come about? It was abducted and sold.
Although Colombia is the fourth largest economy in Latin America and looks decent, to be honest, its economic structure mainly relies on oil exports and agricultural products, and the livelihoods of the lower class people are actually very limited, especially for women, which is more serious.
Surviving in such a high unemployment environment makes it easy to fall into the scams of human trafficking groups.
Girls in school often receive advertisements or flyers promoting how good working conditions are and how much money they can earn abroad. Have inexperienced girls ever seen this before? It is easy to be lured into signing a “labor contract” and fantasizing about going to Europe to work as a nanny or waiter to earn money.
But in reality? As soon as they arrived in Europe, their passports were confiscated and they were placed under centralized supervision and forced into prostitution.
How was this case discovered? Mainly, there was a girl who didn’t want to be a prostitute and sneaked away. When she contacted her family, they advised her to return to the brothel and continue prostitution!
Why? Because her family told her that if she didn’t go back, her sister would be taken away by human traffickers and sent over to replace her!
In the end, the girl had no other choice but to call the police.

In fact, these Colombian prostitutes in Europe are just the tip of the iceberg of human trafficking in Colombia.
A Colombian girl once said, “The Spaniards built a wall to protect this city, but no one protected me. I know if I have a daughter, when she grows up, I will stare at her like an eagle. Life here is full of crises everywhere
In the capital of Colombia, Bogot á, there is a neighborhood called Santa F é, which is the largest red light district in Bogot á. It is bustling with lights, alcohol, and money, with black and white streets mixed in.
Here, one out of every nine people holds a gun.
Here, drug addicted murderers and cruel street gang members walk confidently on the streets.
Here, killing and torture can be seen everywhere, and even death doesn’t matter to anyone.
Of course, the most famous thing about this place is its pornography industry.
After nightfall, red lights light up and the streets are filled with many graceful mixed race girls.

There are probably tens of thousands of prostitutes here, who are in the hands of six drug lords. Most of these prostitutes are trafficked from rural areas by drug dealers through various means. Except for a few who know they want to engage in the sex industry, most of them were lured by high paying jobs.
However, once inside here, one will be struck and sucked until death.
They are often forced to sign a sales contract for more than ten years, during which they have no right to rest or negotiate. The only thing they can do is to keep receiving customers and meet their daily KPI. If anyone fails to meet the KPI, they will be beaten up lightly, and in severe cases, they will lose their lives directly.
In order to control these prostitutes, many drug lords feed them drugs and even promote them as a selling point in the red light district. And once these prostitutes become addicted, they can only continue to work for drug lords, providing both profits from the sex industry and drug sales.
If prostitutes are unwilling to use drugs or no longer meet the conditions for prostitution, drug lords will take them to nearby mountains, torture them with various means, and ultimately make them die in pain.
Their bodies will also be discarded everywhere, becoming one of the tens of thousands of unnamed bodies in Colombia.
This tragic situation is beyond the imagination of many Chinese people, and we have never seen the real bottom of the world.
Of course, some prostitutes have to be drained of their last bit of value – their organs – before dying.
This brings us to the second sub industry of human trafficking in Colombia, organ buying and selling.
Let’s talk about some cold knowledge. Despite the domestic turmoil and economic decline in Colombia, its healthcare industry is exceptionally developed, and its overall medical level ranks 22nd in the world.
What is the 22nd concept? Let’s take a look at the same ranking, the United States only ranks 37th, while Canada is better at 30th.
Why is Colombia, a small country, having higher medical standards than the United States and Canada?
In fact, it is mainly organ transplantation that scores the overall medical level.
The organ transplant industry in Colombia is highly developed, with five hospitals obtaining the world’s highest level of JCI certification and offering discounted prices. Therefore, Colombia is a famous “medical tourism” destination, where a large number of wealthy people from Europe, the United States, and Israel choose to undergo organ transplant surgery.

So the question is, where do organs come from?
The fact is shocking: the source is all Colombians.
In 2017, Colombian President Santos approved a law on organ donation, which stipulates that all Colombians are organ donors unless they explicitly refuse to donate in advance.
More importantly, the new law eliminates the independent decision-making power of the deceased’s family members regarding organ donation. This means that unless you explicitly refuse to donate before your death, your organs, including lungs, heart, kidneys, pancreas, liver, intestines, cornea, skin, veins, arteries, bones, etc., will be used for matching and donation, and even your family members cannot interfere.
That’s not enough. In 2023, the Colombian Congress proposed another bill aimed at regulating organ donation, which lowered the standards for organ donation and included “cardiac death” (cardiac arrest preceding complete cessation of breathing and brain function) in the scope of organ donors, implementing “cardiac death organ donation” (DCD)!
In other words, even if your brain is still conscious, it will be pulled for organ donation.
Once there is a loophole in the law, various tricks will definitely emerge out of profit considerations.
We all know that there are two key points in organ transplantation, one is matching, and the other is the freshness of the organ.
Match type, it doesn’t matter what people say.
But the freshness of organs is the final say – can’t a living person be cut now?
So the question is, are these freshly cut organ donors voluntary?
No one cares.
In Colombia, there are thousands of active “organ intermediaries” who roam the slums like hunters, accurately finding the poor who urgently need money and enticing them to “voluntarily donate organs” with money.
After all, what else can a poor person sell besides themselves? Either blood and sweat, or flesh and blood.
Under this mature organ trading system, $30000 worth of corneas, $150000 worth of lungs, and $60000 worth of kidneys are all priced like commodities and traded at well-known private hospitals in the local area. The organs of Bolivar descendants enter the bodies of Angsa descendants in this way.

According to the data released by the World Health Organization, Colombia is the most active among the five organ trading hotspots in the world.
Of course, such sporadic organ trading often faces the problems of long matching time and unstable supply, so soon an upgraded version of organ trading was born – captive breeding.
Simply put, it means that the mafia imprisons gamblers who have lost all their money, poor people who cannot afford high interest loans, and prostitutes who are old and weak, and then collects blood for matching. If a match is found, the customer immediately flies to Colombia and is admitted to the hospital. These captive “organ slaves” are also sent to the hospital for live cutting on site.
Gangs also collude with lawyers to “whitewash” these organs by forging donation certificates and other documents.
In this process, gangs, doctors, lawyers, and even police are all part of this huge human trafficking chain.
With the “source of goods” and “legal proof”, the organ black market has flourished and become Colombia’s “underground business card”.
However, this scale is still too small to meet the needs of wealthy people in all developed Western countries.
So, the organ trafficking group once again set its sights on “walk-in customers”.
In fact, the route known to the Chinese in recent years has existed for many years. A large number of Venezuelans, Haitians and Ecuadorians are the main force of the route. The Chinese, however, have just joined in recent years.
They usually use Ecuador’s visa free policy to arrive in Ecuador, then cross the Darien Pass tropical jungle from Colombia into Panama, and then head north through several Central American countries to reach the US Mexico border. They swim across the border river or cross the border wall to enter the United States.

However, these unfamiliar passersby are the favorite of organ trafficking groups.
Being raped, robbed, and even kidnapped while traveling is not uncommon. There is no signal here, even if a kidnapping incident occurs, no one will intervene or investigate.
Then these kidnapped travelers will be pulled to the ‘organ camp’ and wait for one day to disappear from this world.
The abused prostitutes, captive “organ slaves,” and kidnapped smugglers may all be the source of unclaimed bodies in Colombia.
Although the claim of ‘hiding corpses in a hangar’ may not be credible, what is credible is that a large number of corpses are constantly produced in Colombia every day, and then discarded like garbage in deep mountains, ditches, and even garbage stations.
Who are they? Where do they come from? Do they have family? No one knows.

03

To be honest, after reading the Colombian truth above, I’m afraid that most Chinese people (except those in northern Myanmar) will be shattered.
Why?
Because of the good public security environment, the lower limit of Chinese people’s imagination about evil has been greatly lowered.
In Chinese people’s understanding, abducting and trafficking women and children is a heinous crime.
But what about abroad? In underdeveloped countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, what is this!
When a teenage girl is kidnapped and becomes a sex slave for guerrillas.
When girls from poor families are deceived into prostitution in brothels.
When an ordinary driver is injected with drugs and forced to become a transporter for drug traffickers.
When one girl after another is being sold, a number must be engraved on her body for easy management.
When it comes to a container, it can suffocate dozens of illegal immigrants.
When each ‘organ slave’ dies in pain after their organs are cut off without anesthesia.
When bodies are abandoned in mass graves.
In fact, the world we live in is dominated by underdeveloped countries. In underdeveloped countries, crimes and atrocities are as commonplace as air due to wars, conflicts, turmoil, economic decline, corruption, and other reasons.
And the time that we see as peaceful is actually just the part of the iceberg floating on the surface of the water. Beneath the surface, there are drugs, weapons, bloodshed, violence, pornography, human trafficking, professional killers, terrorists, and even twisted and bloody gameplay such as live streaming, which you and I cannot imagine.
These sins may not be easily seen, but they surge strongly like deep sea currents.
At this point, what else can we say?
We can only be grateful that we were reincarnated in China.
Fortunately, we are Chinese.