Human rights organizations said on Tuesday that the investigations of extrajudicial killings, known in Colombia as “false positives,” need to be “treated as crimes systematically produced and not as isolated…
Imagine the massive scandal that would hit your government if your people, for example through the media, found out that your own security forces have been murdering compatriots to cook…
The mothers of 19 young men on Sunday commemorated the death of their sons whose extrajudicial execution unleashed investigations into the killing of some 3,000 civilians at the hands of…
Colombia’s chief prosecutor said Thursday he will increase the number of prosecutors investigating the murders of some 3,000 civilians by the armed forces, warning that “poor results” made so far…
A judge in the northeast of Colombian has absolved eight soldiers who had been accused of murdering civilians in order to present them as guerrillas killed in combat, the local…
Members of Colombia’s security forces are under investigation for the extrajudicial execution of almost 3,000 civilians, the Prosecutor General’s Office said Monday. Until June 1, 1,882 members of the security…
Four Colombian army soldiers were charged Thursday for the “false positive” murders of three civilians who the soldiers presented as guerrillas killed in combat. A Colombian court sentenced the four…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has guaranteed legal aid for members of the armed forces who are investigated for crimes they may have committed on duty, including the extrajudicial killings…
Nineteen members of the Colombian Army were convicted of killing 15 civilians and falsely presenting them as leftist guerrilla members between 2007 and 2008, reported newspaper El Tiempo Monday. The…