Human Rights Watch director Chilean Jose Miguel Vivanco answers questions during a news conference i..,...

Human Rights Watch director Chilean Jose Miguel Vivanco answers questions during a news conference in Bogota, October 4, 2001. [Human Rights Watch said in a report that elite Colombian counter-narcotics battalions trained by the United States military to fight drugs in the South American nation shared bases, intelligence and logistical support with the army's 24th Brigade, based in the drug-rich southern Putumayo region. The 8,000 member (AUC), Self-defense United of Colombia, a brutal vigilante force that targets suspected leftist collaborators is blamed for some of the worst atrocities in a war that has killed 40,000 mostly civilians in the last decade. ]