5 hours agoThe Tribunal finds that the state army killed over 6 thousand people just to raise homicide statistics
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The Columbia Peace Tribunal has found that at least 6 thousand and 402 people have been killed by the country's army and falsely declared killed in battle in order to increase the statistics on civil war with leftist rebel groups. That number is nearly three times higher [...]
That number is nearly three times higher than previously accepted by the attorney general's office.
The murders, which were referred to in Colombia as the “scandal of false positives”, occurred between 2002 and 2008, when the government had fought the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia [or, Farcut], a leftist rebel guerrilla, who had finally made peace with the government in 2016.
It was in 2016 that a special peace stand was established to investigate the crimes committed by all parties involved in the conflict, writes The Guardian, a report by Periscope.
On Thursday, this tribunal made public the preliminary results of the investigation, following exhumations in mass graves throughout the country in the last two years.
The statement issued to the media is confirmed that the investigation will continue.
Jackeline Castano, whose brother was kidnapped and then killed by the military in 2008, said he felt that justice was closer to the announcement.
Many soldiers have been sent to prison, and many senior officers have been fired for what happened. /Periscope
