NEW: Colombias war crime disappearing act
NEW: Colombia’s war crime disappearing act
written by Jamie Vaughan Johnson March 7, 2017
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Monday sentenced a former prosecutor to six years in prison for failing to file charges against soldiers who were later sentenced for assassinating a civilian and presenting him as a guerrilla killed in combat.
Former Prosecutor Luz Angela Lopez precluded the investigation into the actions of the accused two soldiers, despite the fact that there was clear evidence to call them to trial.
The men were responsible for the 1993 murder of Dagoberto Florez in Necocli, a municipality in northwest Colombia. The soldiers then dressed the victim as a guerrilla in order to present him as a combat kill, a military practice that cost more than 4,000 Colombians their lives.
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This is the latest breakthrough in the crack-down on those involved in the “false positives” scandal that became systematic during the administrations of former President Alvaro Uribe (2002 – 2010), especially when Colombia’s current President Juan Manual Santos was Minister of Defense between 2006 and 2008.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/new-colombias-war-crime-disappearing-act/