One military official based at Giwa barracks told Amnesty: "Many Boko Haram suspects died as a result of fumigation.
Fumigation may have led to the deaths of many detainees in their poorly ventilated cells.
Two days later the FARC offered armed help to farmers in the north-east, who are protesting against the fumigation of their illegal coca plants and the lack of jobs.The left's weakness in Colombia owes much to the ambiguous position it has historically taken towards political violence and armed struggle.
Vaccines took months to deploy, delayed by fundamental problems (the time needed to develop them) and trivial ones (American shipments had to wait for the pallets carrying vaccines to receive a fumigation certificate).
In Norte de Santander, by contrast, police say that fumigation of an estimated 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres) of high-yielding coca will not start until August.All this raises two other questions.
He reached agreement with Colombia's president, Álvaro Uribe, to allow some aerial fumigation of coca crops near the border between the two countries.
But the government has been pushing ahead with fumigation in the southern jungle province of Putumayo, spraying some 25,000 hectares (nearly 100 square miles) of coca plantations from the air between December 19th and February 1st.
In fact, over 70% of the country's perishable air imports land there.Once the chilled blooms arrive in Miami, they undergo inspection, fumigation, and sorting and are loaded onto lorries for shipment to the city's warehouse district, 10 miles away.
Fumigation was also used.
Cyanides are used in many chemical processes, including fumigation, case hardening of iron and steel, electroplating, and the concentration of ores.
Fumigation may be used to control insects and some diseases in stored products or to control insects such as wireworms and grubs, nematodes, and sometimes fungi and weeds in soil.
