U.S.-based NGO the Fellowship of Reconciliation alleges that Colombian military units, which are implicated in cases of extrajudicial killings known as “false positives,” received help from the U.S. government, in…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe slammed plans to question armed forces commander General Freddy Padilla over the “false positives” scandal, in which the army murdered civilians to inflate rebel kill statistics, reports…
Dozens of people were murdered by the Colombian army and presented as guerillas killed in combat in the central Meta department, according to leaders from the now-demobilized paramilitary group AUC. Former…