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Members of Colombia’s armed forces are investigated for the murder of more than 2,000 civilians, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday.
The newspaper, basing its report on numbers provided by the Prosecutor General’s Office, says there are currently nearly 1,300 cases being handled by PG investigators.
Authorities have been intensly investigating ‘false positives’, murders committed by the armed forces to make the war against illegal armed groups look more effective, for a year now, after news broke in October 2008 that young men that had gone missing south of Bogota were found dead near the Venezuelan border and had been registered as guerrillas killed in combat.
So far, 137 members of the armed forces were convicted.
