Bogota ¨C Hundreds of Colombian ex-soldiers have been drawn to Sudan with the promise of bumper Emirati paychecks. What many found instead was death in a faraway war marked by mass killing, rape, famine and child recruitment.
An AFP investigation has uncovered how Colombian mercenaries ended up on the other side of the world through a network of profit and silence stretching from the Andes to Darfur.
Using interviews with family members and mercenaries, corporate records and geolocation of battlefield footage, the investigation revealed how they came to bolster the ranks of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), accused of genocide.
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