11 soldiers arrested for extrajudicial executions

Prosecution officials Friday evening arrested another eleven solders who are suspected of having murdered civilians to present their bodies as those of guerrillas killed in combat.

According to prosecutors, the eleven murdered five peasants in the Tolima department in December.

The suspects were arrested in army barracks in the capital of Tolima, Ibagué.

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