NGO: Santos wasn’t committed to human rights as MOD
A Colombian human rights NGO on Monday criticized Juan Manuel Santos’ commitment to human rights while he was serving as defense minister from 2006 to 2009. “The national government and…
A Colombian human rights NGO on Monday criticized Juan Manuel Santos’ commitment to human rights while he was serving as defense minister from 2006 to 2009. “The national government and…
The government introduced a bill to provide legal defense for members of the security forces accused of crimes, El Espectador reported Wednesday. Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera, who introduced the initiative…
Three prominent FARC commanders who were reported as killed in combat by the Colombian army are alive, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday. According to the newspaper, the three guerrillas, “Albeiro…
A man left the remains of his son, an army sergeant, on Bogota‘s central Bolivar square Sunday. The man claims his son was executed by colleagues in 2006 when he…
Colombia’s defense minister said Monday that the civilian who was found dead in guerrilla clothes after the army clashed with guerrillas in the south-west of the country on Saturday was…
Colombian authorities said Monday that they have accused an army major and four other soldiers of killing three civilians and then falsely presenting their bodies as those of guerrillas slain…
A Colombian army colonel suspected of having ordered the extrajudicial execution of four civilians is not able to appear before court, because he is in Washington on an Organization of…
The number of “disappeared” in Colombia may be far higher than the official figure of 51,000, according to a report from the Latin America Working Group Education Fund (LAWG) and the…
A survey to determine the number of unidentified corpses found by authorities in Colombia has returned a count of 10,084 so far, with more than half of the country’s municipalities…