A Colombian indigenous community released on Tuesday a video which allegedly showed the aftermath of an extrajudicial killing by the military.
The video, first published on the site of Confidencial Colombia, allegedly showed members of the Colombian army surrounding the naked corpse of 30-year-old Luis Alberto Cunda, a member of the Nasa people in the southwestern Cauca department.
The indigenous community said the video provided proof that the army intentionally falsely claimed Cunda was a FARC guerrilla killed in combat, as part of a plan to artificially boost their guerrilla kill counts, popularly known as a “false positive” killing.
The army insisted however that Cunda was a member of the FARC’s Gabriel Galvis column who engaged in a firefight before being shot dead.
“The combat took place outside of the house, the terrorist left running, in combat he was initially wounded…and then he fell”, said army General Jorge Humberto Jerez to TV station Noticias UNO.