The former governor of the northern Colombian department of Sucre, Miguel Nule Amin, was supposedly “the intellectual author” of the Macayepo massacre where “at least” 12 peasants were murdered and hundreds more were displaced in the neighboring department of Bolivar. According to the conflict-monitoring website, Verdad Abierta, a judge from the Prosecutor General’s Human Rights Unit accused Nule Amin of orchestrating the atrocity.
Apart from the Macapeyo massacre, the ex-governor has been accused of being responsible for the emergence and expansion of paramilitaries in the war-torn Montes de Maria region south of Cartagena.