Three generals plead guilty to killing civilians in northern Colombia
Three army generals have agreed to cooperate with Colombia’s war crimes tribunal to solve...
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Soldiers receive 40 years in prison each for false positive murders
A criminal court in central Colombia has sentenced six soldiers to 40 years in prison each for...
Colombia army officers and ex-policeman jailed for arms trafficking, linked to false positive colonel
Four non-commissioned Army officers, a soldier, an ex-policeman and a civilian were sentenced to...
12 Colombian soldiers dismissed over “false positive”
Colombia’s Inspector General ordered the dismissal and of 12 professional soldiers in relation to the murder of a civilian. 11 of the soldiers also face a 15-year ban from the army and the other soldier, a second lieutenant at...
Colombian authorities dismiss army members for extrajudicial killings
Five army men have been dismissed on Tuesday from the Colombian Army and barred from running for public office for 20 years in reprisal for the extrajudicial killing of two helpless indigenous women who they passed off as...
Colombian soldiers accused of a ‘false positive’ family murder are released
Six Colombian soldiers accused of murdering a family in a “false positive” killing have been released from jail, after a one-year deadline for their trial expired. The slaughter happened at a billiard hall in San...
5 Colombian soldiers accused of murdering civilians to boost kill counts
Five Colombian soldiers were accused Tuesday of murdering two farmers, in the latest case of “false positive” killings, in which elements of the armed forces kill civilians and report them as combatants. According to...
9 soldiers sentenced to 46 years for killing civilians
Nine military officers on Thursday were sentenced to 46 years and six months in prison for the “false positive” killing of three peasants in a rural area near Cali, southwest Colombia, in 2007. The military officers...
Ex-colonel gets 21 years jail for civilian murders
Former navy Colonel Luis Fernando Borja Giraldo was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 years in prison for the murder of civilians to inflate military kill counts. Giraldo pleaded guilty to homicide charges, and consequentially...
15 army members accused of 5 north Colombia ‘false positive’ killings
Colombian authorities have accused 15 members of the military for five “false positive” killings in the northeast Casanare department, various media reported Friday. Following investigation, the Prosecutor...
False positive killing of indigenous leader ‘military error’: Army
The recent murder in east Colombia of an indigenous man who after his death was dressed to look like a member of the FARC, was a “military error” according to the army, Noticias Uno reported Tuesday. Nearly a month...
Colombia’s defense minister to confront unresolved ‘false positive’ cases
Colombia’s defense minister will present a plan on Monday that will advance judicial progress in the country’s various “false positive” cases, and aims to prevent further delays from occurring, newspaper...
