The mothers of 19 young men on Sunday commemorated the death of their sons whose extrajudicial execution unleashed investigations into the killing of some 3,000 civilians at the hands of Colombia’s armed forces. The...
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on executions advised Colombia’s government Monday to exhume the bodies of suspected victims of extrajudicial killings committed by the military to determine their identities. In...
A Colombian criminal court convicted seven army officials for the murder of another soldier, W Radio reported Tuesday. According to the court, the men killed the newly-recruited soldier, dressed him as a guerilla in order to...
A lynch mob attacked an innocent man in a case of mistaken identity in the central municipality of Soacha in Bogota, Caracol Radio reported. According to the radio station, 50 people armed with sticks, rocks, and firearms...
More than 50 residences were damaged in a gang confrontation in the municipality of Soacha, Cundinamarca department, Caracol TV reported Thursday. The dispute occurred in the Quintas de Santa Ana area of the city, where hundreds...
Five people were injured in clashes between rioters and police, after members of the unruly mob apparently attempted to lynch a suspected rapist that authorities were trying to protect, El Espectador reported Friday. The unrest...
Colombia’s Technical Investigation Team (CTI) has captured a FARC leader who had escaped from custody 11 years earlier. Guillermo Garcia Salazar, who was head of the FARC’s urban Antonio Nariño Front, was detained in...
Authorities arrest a former mayor of Soacha, a municipality near Bogota, who has been convicted of illegally making local government contracts, Colombian news media reported Tuesday. Agents from the Technical Investigation Team...
