Authorities arrested fifteen soldiers accused of involvement in the killing of two youths in Barrancabermeja in January 2008, who were apparently executed and then falsely presented as paramilitaries killed in…
Members of Colombia’s armed forces are investigated for the murder of more than 2,000 civilians, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday. The newspaper, basing its report on numbers provided by the…
Figures from the The Center for Research and Popular Education (CINEP) reveal that false positives killings have decreased while insecurity in Colombia’s cities continues. CINEP noted that between 2001 and…
At least six families of victims who disappeared from Soacha only to later be falsely identified as guerrillas killed in combat have since become targets for intimidation and threats. Some…
Colombia’s Supreme Judicial Council Wednesday said that all false positives cases would be heard by the ordinary courts rather than by military courts. The president of the Disciplinary Chamber of…
The number of accusations of extrajudicial killings or ‘false positives’ has decreased throughout Colombia since October 2008, informed the Government in report to the UN Security Council. In a statement…
Families of the victims of state crimes committed under the modality known as ‘false positive’ are accusing the Colombian authorities of unnecessary delays and are demanding that the pertinent actions…
Declassified documents by senior U.S. diplomats show that the murdering of civilians to increase body counts is an old practice in the Colombian military and U.S. authorities have known about…
Colombia Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating 312 new complaints of people who say members of the armed forces killed civilians to present them as guerrillas killed in combat. “The cases…