Three soldiers have been disqualified from military service for 20 years for the extrajudicial killing of a civilian, reported El Espectador Thursday. The patrol report stated, the unidentified victim “was…
Nineteen Bogota-stationed soldiers were put in quarantine after a mysterious infection killed a soldier of the presidential guard, newspaper El Tiempo reported Wednesday. The soldier died Saturday of a lung…
Colombian army troops began fierce combat with rebels of the FARC in the north of Colombia Tuesday, leaving at least one guerrilla dead and two soldiers injured. Four rebels surrendered.…
Two soldiers and three suspected kidnappers have died in an apparent kidnapping attempt in the southwest of Colombia, local authorities said Thursday. The incident took place in the village of…
Five Colombian Army soldiers were charged on Monday with the “false positive” murder of two teenage boys in March 2011, according to Colombian news sources. An international humanitarian law and…
Colombian authorities said Wednesday seven soldiers have been charged in the killing of a comrade who had deserted. According to the Prosecutor general’s Office, the troops reported on December 24,…
Colombia’s Navy said Sunday it has seized 32 homemade bombs with a total of 130 kilos of explosives. The explosives were found just outside the Pacific port town of Tumaco…
Fifteen Colombian army soldiers were sentenced to 25 and 26 years in prison Wednesday for the 2006 murder of five men who were later presented as guerrillas killed in combat.…
Military tribunals must be presided over by civilians, said Colombia’s President of the House of Representatives Tuesday. Simon Gaviria said a military criminal justice system run by the Armed Forces…