Colombian prosecutors are investigating 3,473 state agents for “false positives,” – the extrajudicial execution of civilians to present as guerrillas killed in combat – the country’s prosecutor general said Monday.…
A retired Colombian Army lieutenant colonel was sentenced to 23 years and three months in prison Thursday for the extrajudicial execution of a farmer in north Colombia whose death was…
Medellin’s Superior Court reverses guilty sentences for 10 soldiers convicted of murdering civilians and disguising the bodies as combatants, in the first such reversal Thursday, reported Colombian media. Ten officials from…
Colombia’s ex-President Alvaro Uribe’s likening of the ongoing investigations into government corruption to false positives is inaccurate, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday. The president argued that the corruption…
The number of extrajudicial executions of civilians committed by the military, also known as “false positives,” increased in 2010, according to a human rights organization. The Centro de Investigacion Popular…
Colombia’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic, former army commander Mario Montoya, has resigned, several local media reported Friday. According to RCN Radio, the controversial former military handed in his resignation…
Eight members of Colombia’s military will serve up to 55 years in military prison for killing two civilians, despite petitions from the victims’ family that the guilty men are incarcerated…
A court in the north of Colombia on Friday sentenced members of the military to between 28 and 55 years in prison for the kidnapping and killing of two men…
Six soldiers and two police officials have been detained for murdering civilians and reporting them as guerrillas in “false positive” killings Friday, CM& Noticia reported. The men were accused of…