Colombia defense minister on Tuesday claimed that a human rights defender who was allegedly murdered by soldiers “died in a military operation.” The controversy over the death of Flower Jair…
Military aid provided by the United States to Colombia between 2000 and 2010 had a significant impact on the increase in cases over the extrajudicial killings of civilians by the…
Human rights organizations said on Tuesday that the investigations of extrajudicial killings, known in Colombia as “false positives,” need to be “treated as crimes systematically produced and not as isolated…
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on executions advised Colombia’s government Monday to exhume the bodies of suspected victims of extrajudicial killings committed by the military to determine their identities.…
The Colombian government charged 100 soliders with killing civilians, Radio Caracol reported Thursday. In a practice known as creating “false postitives,” the soldiers allegedly killed at least 50 civilians, including…
The “Mothers of Soacha,” a group representing relatives of Colombian civilians killed by the army, on Tuesday began a tour of Europe to gather support for their demand for justice,…
Army Major Orlando Arturo Cespedes Escalona, deputy commander of the Joint Task Force in Sucre, was arrested for his alleged part in the murder of eleven young people, who were…
Colombia’s Vice President-elect Angelino Garzon will sit down with a representative of the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, Christian Salazar, to speak about the challenges awaiting Garzon in…
Colombia’s Ministry of Defense on Wednesday backed up assertions that the country’s security services are cleaning up their human rights record, reporting a dramatic fall in human rights complaints and “false…