Soldiers stand trial for ‘false positive’ killings
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office on Wednesday called 29 soldiers to trial for their alleged involvement in the 2005 murder of two civilians, who the soldiers reported as guerrillas killed in…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office on Wednesday called 29 soldiers to trial for their alleged involvement in the 2005 murder of two civilians, who the soldiers reported as guerrillas killed in…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General Guillermo Mendoza Diago has announced the formation of a new body to investigate the origins of thousands of recently discovered unidentified corpses, local media reported Wednesday. The investigative…
The Office for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) confirmed Tuesday in Bogota that a graveyard located in La Macarena, in Colombia’s south-east Meta department contains at least 446…
A public prosecutor in Cucuta, in Colombia’s Norte de Santander department, asked paramilitaries to disguise young people as AUC members in order to improve the prosecution’s arrest statistics, according to…
U.S.-based NGO the Fellowship of Reconciliation alleges that Colombian military units, which are implicated in cases of extrajudicial killings known as “false positives,” received help from the U.S. government, in…
Graphic new evidence of alleged “false positive” murders of civilians by the Colombian army, much of it collected by the former military Judge Alexander Corte, is published by the magazine Semana…
The U.N. Committee for Human Rights criticized the incentives offered by Colombian government to the army in its fight against rebel factions, saying that the system led to the “false…
Colombia’s Ministry of Defense on Wednesday backed up assertions that the country’s security services are cleaning up their human rights record, reporting a dramatic fall in human rights complaints and “false…
Two members of Colombia’s armed forces were sentenced to 28 years in jail on Thursday for murdering innocent civilians and presenting the bodies as guerrillas killed in action, reports Colombian media.…