Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office issued arrest warrants for seven soldiers, including a lieutenant, suspected of killing a farmer in the country’s northern Sucre department and presenting him as a rebel killed…
Colombian journalist Felipe Zuleta announced Thursday that he plans to take Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to the International Criminal Court over the army’s extrajudicial killings of civilians who they then…
A report released by U.S. NGO the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) finds an “alarming link” between Colombian military units that received U.S. funding and cases of extrajudicial killings or “false…
In the first face-to-face debate following Sunday’s first round presidential elections, second round candidates Juan Manuel Santos and Antanas Mockus discussed fiscal policy and the extrajudicial execution of civilians, known…
A Colombian court Monday sentenced four members of the armed forces to 33 years in jail for the 2005 murder of a farmer in Argelia, Antioquia department, reported by the…
The commander of Colombia’s armed forces says that the national justice system and not the International Criminal Court (ICC) should be responsible for prosecuting soldiers involved in “false positive” killings, in which…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has requested access to all reports released in Colombia that pertain to extra judicial killings, although it is not currently directly processing any “false positives”…
A former commander of an army anti-kidnapping squad was arrested for his alleged role in the extra-judicial killing of two Colombian citizens in the northern department of Cordoba. The prosecutor…
Twenty-three Colombian soldiers were arrested for the murder of five civilians, later presented as presumed paramilitaries, committed in 2006 in Ibague in central Colombia. The soldiers claimed there had been…