Colombian prosecutors have sought to establish whether there were any irregularities in identifying victims of the 1997 Mapiripan slaughter, by interrogating alleged “false victims”. Colombia’s Prosecutor General Viviane Morales cited…
Colombian human rights lawyers on Thursday vigorously denied accusations they have been “profiting from the pain” of victims, following allegations of fraud in the compensation of victims of a 1997…
The United Nations called on Colombia Tuesday to investigate allegations that “false victims” collected compensation for a 1997 paramilitary massacre. A U.N. statement released Tuesday condemned the “fraudulent use of…
Colombia’s Ministry of Defense asked to be recognized as a victim in the case against people who may have received government compensation by fraudulently claiming to be victims of the…
The Criminal Chamber of Colombia’s Supreme Court reduced the sentence of an Army general convicted of allowing the Mapiripan massacre in 1997. Colombian media reported that the Supreme Court has…
The Colombian Prosecutor General’s Office said Tuesday that only 10 people were killed during the 1997 Mapiripan slaughter, rather than the 50 that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights said…
Demobilized paramilitaries testify about the details of two massacres in Mapiripan before the Justice and Peace Unit of Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office. The former militia members said that the paramilitaries…
New testimonies by demobilized paramilitaries suggest that a massacre took place in 2004 in Mapiripan, a town infamous for a paramilitary massacre that occurred there in 1997. Testifying before the…