Top paramilitary commander and Medellin crime lord “Don Berna” reserved men and arms to keep control of criminal activity while in a 2005 event he was officially demobilizing forces, according to…
Canada’s embassy can’t confirm or deny the “rumors” that Colombia’s fugitive peace commissioner has gotten asylum in Canada because of privacy laws.
A group of military experts will advise the negotiating team in Havana on issues such as demobilization and weapons delivery, local media reported Saturday.
Forty-six incarcerated ex-paramilitaries accused of homicide, forced disappearances, forced displacement, torture, sexual violence, and recruitment of minors are eligible for release from prison as of Friday, according to the Prosecutor…
Members of illegal armed groups in Colombia who have decided to lay down their arms increased by 20% between 2012 and 2013, according to Colombia’s Semana news magazine.
Colombia’s Office of the Prosecutor General has refuted claims that more than 400 paramilitaries are eligible to be released before December 2014, saying the number is closer to 160, Colombia’s…
More than 400 incarcerated Colombian paramilitaries are scheduled to be released before December 2014 after having served their eight year sentences as a result of submitting to Colombia’s Justice and…
Former paramilitary leader Ramon Isaza, alias “El Viejo,” has been sentenced to a reduced eight years in a Colombia prison for crimes committed over the course of a 30-year career,…
The Presidential Program for Human Rights has called upon the Colombian public to be more welcoming to demobilized combatants.