A Bucaramanga judge convicted eight military personnel for killing two boys and presenting them as enemy fighters in the municipality of Soacha, Cundinamarca reported Caracol Radio Friday.
The judge ruled that eight soldiers, including the commander of the battalion, Colonel Wilson Javier Castro Muñoz, are guilty of the false-positive killing of Andres Pesca Olaya and Eduardo Garzon, two young men from the central Cundinamarca department who were killed in the military operation led by the colonel.
All of the soldiers were found guilty of forced disappearance, aggravated homicide and falsifying a public document, as well as embezzlement of resources for the money they received for the operation that took the lives of the young boys, newspaper El Espectador reported.
The convicted soldiers will reportedly be sentenced in the coming weeks.