Notorious ex-paramilitary boss Rodrigo Mercado Peluffo, alias ‘Cadena’, was sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of commanding the Massacre of Macayepo in northern Colombia in 2000.…
Failures of Colombia’s prison authority INPEC have led to the untimely release of more than 60 dangerous criminals and paralyzed investigation on paramilitary crimes, newspaper El Heraldo reported Thursday. It…
A human rights prosecutor ordered the arrested of an officer in the Colombian Armed Forces for his alleged role in the killing of five indigenous Awa Indians. Lieutenant Alberto Williams…
Three people, among them a two year old girl, were murdered in a central Colombian village after their ranch was attacked by FARC guerrillas in the early hours of Tuesday…
A judge in northern Colombia ruled Tuesday that the Colombian state has to pay US $1.3 million to the survivors of the 2001 El Chengue Massacre. The judicial order will…
The Colombian government is required to make moral and financial reparations to families of the 24 villagers killed by paramilitaries in Valle in October 2001. On 10 October 2001, about…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General will lay charges against John Jairo ‘El Tige’ Esquivel Cuadrado for his role in the El Salado slaughter of February 2000, in which 61 people were killed.…
The Prosecution is investigating whether criminal gangs in the region were involved in the mass killing of 12 indigenous Awa. “This crime was perpetrated by a number of persons. Bullet…
Demobilized paramilitary leader Freddy Rendon Herrera, also known as ‘El Aleman’, will face murder charges for up to 450 victims, El Espectador reported Friday. He has so far been charged…