Colombia army apprehends five FARC guerrillas
As part of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ renewed military surge against the rebel group, FARC, the country’s security forces announced Thursday that it had taken down five members of…
As part of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ renewed military surge against the rebel group, FARC, the country’s security forces announced Thursday that it had taken down five members of…
255 “manual coca eradicators” have been killed by mines while performing their duties, reported the government on Tuesday. The official number of deaths while performing duties of destroying coca crops…
Armed forces said Monday they have killed one guerrilla and captured another while dismantling five rebel camps in an offensive against the FARC in central Colombia. According to an army…
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 FARC on Friday accused the United States of having a part in the September bombing attack on a FARC camp that killed commander “Mono Jojoy,” reports Anncol. The FARC-sympathetic…
A survey to determine the number of unidentified corpses found by authorities in Colombia has returned a count of 10,084 so far, with more than half of the country’s municipalities…
A 5-year old boy has been killed in crossfire between guerrillas and the armed forces, the Colombian army said Sunday. According to a press release by the army, the incident…
The Colombian Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating three alleged cases of “false positives,” civilians murdered by the army and reported as guerrillas, buried in what was alleged to be a…
Colombian human rights defender Norma Irene Perez, who was involved in investigating allegations of a mass grave in La Macarena, was found shot to death, according to a Bogota-based NGO. The Permanent…