Colombia condemns US strike on boat in Pacific Ocean
Colombia’s Foreign Ministry condemned a US strike on a vessel allegedly involved in drug...
Tag: extrajudicial killings
Colombia’s defense minister says alleged army homicide was ‘military operation’
Colombia defense minister on Tuesday claimed that a human rights defender who was allegedly...
US military aid to Colombia had a ‘significant impact’ on increased extrajudicial killings by Armed Forces
Military aid provided by the United States to Colombia between 2000 and 2010 had a significant...
Colombia receives criticism for judicial process of mass civilian killings
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...
Colombia should exhume victims of military killings: UN
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. In...
Colombian soldiers charged with killing civilians
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,...
