Ex-paramilitaries sentenced to 20 years for 2005 massacre
Six former paramilitaries have been handed 20 year prison sentences for carrying out the 2005 San Jose de Apartado massacre, reported Radio Caracol Monday. The sentence was the result of…
Six former paramilitaries have been handed 20 year prison sentences for carrying out the 2005 San Jose de Apartado massacre, reported Radio Caracol Monday. The sentence was the result of…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos publicly apologized Monday to the victims of a 1999 massacre in southern Colombia. Santos went on to unveil a new Reparations for Victims Act, declaring…
A former member of demobilized paramilitary organization AUC was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for the 1990 massacre of 43 people. Edilson Antonio Cardona, alias “Sapo Armado”was…
More than 500 farmers arrive in Cartagena, north Colombia, after a two-day march to demand justice for a massacre committed in 2002. The villagers walked from Maria La Baja, a…
Colombian military and police have detained a guerrilla alleged to be the chief financial officer for a FARC front which perpetrated a massacre in 2002, reported newspaper El Colombiano. The…
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…
The Colombian state was ordered to pay reparation for non-existent victims in three massacres, a pro-military advocacy group said Thursday. According to Military Defense, a non-governmental group that offers legal assistance…
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…