400 more Colombia state agents charged with extrajudicial killings within last year
400 more Colombia state agents charged with extrajudicial killings within last year
Oct 2, 2014 posted by Joel Gillin
More than 400 more state agents have been accused of killing civilians within the last year, bringing the total to 4,774.
These numbers are from a Prosecutor General’s report dated to February of this year, which the Prosecutor General’s Office pointed to as the most updated statistics in an email.
Colombia’s so-called “false positives” scandal is centered around the extrajudicial killings of thousands of civilians by members of the armed forces who dressed their victims as guerrillas in order to present them as combat kills.
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False Positives: A brief history
While governmental and non-governmental organizations had been denouncing “false positivies” for years – the earliest cases date back to 1986 – the Colombian government of former-President Alvaro Uribe (2002-2008) denied the armed forces were killing civilians.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/400-more-state-agents-implicated-in-false-positives-scandal-within-year/
(Since 2000, Colombia has been by far the largest recipient of foreign aid in the Western Hemisphere.)