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Colombia’s Minister of Defense on Wednesday called the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ [IACHR] condemnation of the 1998 Santo Domingo massacre, “painful.”
According to Juan Carlos Pinzon, the Colombian government respects the IACHR decision, but finds it odd that only they were condemned for the massacre despite the fact that the country’s largest guerrilla group, FARC, also participated in the conflict which claimed the lives of 17 innocents.
In December of 1998, the Colombian Air Force used cluster bombs to attack guerrillas hiding in the rural village of Tame. More than a decade later, the IACHR stated that the attack was an act “contrary to international humanitarian law.”
