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Victims want Colombia to strip military war criminals of medals
by Adriaan Alsema March 17, 2021
The families of civilians who were executed by Colombia’s security forces to inflate results want the commanders responsible of these atrocities to be stripped of their medals, they said Tuesday.
The representative of the Association of Mothers of False Positives (Mafapo), Jacqueline Castillo, said that victims of her organization want the security forces to revoke decorations of war criminals as a means of compensation.
Castillo expressed the victims’ wish during the presentation of a report to the war crimes tribunal and the truth commission on the victimization of family members of more than 6,400 civilians who were executed and falsely presented as combat kills.
The victims’ representative said some women sold their homes in order to have the funds that would allow them to find their missing sons.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/victims-want-colombia-to-strip-military-war-criminals-of-medals/