Colombia court warns government to repay families for victims murdered by State
written by Richard Kelleher February 14, 2017
Colombia’s constitutional court on Tuesday warned the government that they must provide reparations to the families of victims of extrajudicial killings carried out during the armed conflict.
The order refers directly to the “false positives” scandal that saw thousands of civilians murdered by members of the armed forces, who dressed their victims as guerrillas in order to present them as combat kills.
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According to the ruling, the killings were committed against “protected people” since they were civilians that were not part of the armed conflict.
The family claimed that armed forces had presented their son who was murdered in 2005 as “a person dressed in combat clothes” when in reality the young boy “lived at home with his parents and siblings and was in charge of picking coffee,” reported El Espectador.
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