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This story is absolutely unbelievable that people can have such a low regard for life and if anyone thought that we are a civilisation then we are missing the civil part completely.
Here is part of the story which is from Colombia
Who to kill? Colombia army picks soldier's brother
 BOGOTA, Colombia – The soldiers in Antelope Company's Third Platoon hadn't registered a guerrilla kill in months. And without results, they feared they wouldn't be let off base for Mother's Day.
So they hatched a plan, according to Pvt. Luis Esteban Montes: Lure a civilian to their camp, murder him and register him as a rebel slain in combat.
Montes, 24, didn't object — until he met the quarry. It was Leonardo, the older brother he hadn't seen since he was 9.
Incredibly Montes didn't object until he discovered it was his own brother however it would have been alright if it was a simple 'unknown' civilian who had the misfortune of being chosen for the sacrifice
Montes said he tried to dissuade his commander, who responded with threats. He slipped his brother out of the camp, he says, only to see him show up dead a week later, a "guerrilla kill" with three bullets in his torso and a gaping facial wound likely caused by a knife.
The men of Antelope Company of the 31st Rifle Batallion, 11th Brigade, 7th Division, did not get their "liberty passes." Montes' family filed a formal complaint, one of 245 complaints involving alleged killings of civilians by Colombian security forces last year that prosecutors are investigating.
It is among the most chilling examples of what the United Nations' top human rights official, Navi Pillay, calls "widespread and systematic" extrajudicial killings by Colombia's U.S.-backed military. Many of the killings were allegedly committed merely to inflate rebel casualty numbers.
now a further interesting aspect is that Navi Pillay is South African and one wonders whether she needs to take a blind eye at the genocide taking place within her own country, South Africa?
Long have the complaints come from the farmers in South Africa who have stated that they are being systematically killed off and terrorised, this has even led to the farmers being put on the 'genocide watchlist'
Man's (or even women for PC distinction) ability to disregard the human value of one another has raged across the centuries however we are meant to be a far more advanced society that a century ago or are we not?
Sad to say the least
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