Paramilitaries testify on 2004 Mapiripan massacre
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…
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…
Residents of the northern Colombian town of El Salado say that ten years after a paramilitary massacre that left more than 100 dead, the state has failed to deliver fully…
Seven Colombian families displaced 14 years ago by paramilitaries, who two months ago returned to their villages of Blanquicet and Macondo, in the central Colombian department of Antioquia, report they are…
An unknown armed group on Sunday carried out a raid on a village in the northern Colombian department of Corboda, murdering seven people including three minors, reports Colombian media. The…
An Antioquian court sentenced former army Captain Guillermo Armando Gordillo Sanchez to 20 years in jail for his part in the 2005 San Jose de Apartado massacre, in which five adults…
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced former Senator Alvaro Garcia Romero to 40 years in jail for paramilitary ties, embezzlement and his role in the Macayepo massacre. The court ruled…
Ex-army general Mario Montoya Uribe has been implicated in the massacre of eight people in the Peace Community of San Apartado, reported El Tiempo on Thursday. Whilst on trial for…
Colombia’s PG’s Office on Monday claimed to have recordings which prove that the massacre of 12 Awa indigenous people in August was carried out by FARC guerrillas. The Prosecutor General’s…
Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities are subject to increasing persecution by protagonists of Colombia’s Armed Conflict, denounced a UN representative on Tuesday. Christian Salazar Volkmann, representative of the UN High Commission…