Colombia's military continues to kill civilians: NGO

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Colombia's military continues to kill civilians: NGO
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 17:55
Miriam Wells

A Colombian NGO has made new allegations of 'false positive' killings, some as recent as June this year.

In a report due to be released November 21, the Center of Investigation and Popular Education (Cinep) recounts details of 961 new allegations of 'false positives' - a term used to describe the Colombian military killing civilians then passing them off as guerrillas to inflate their success rate.

Nine are reported to have taken place since Juan Manuel Santos assumed the Colombian presidency.

Santos told media in March that the "issue of false positives was gone," and that "there has not been a single false positive case since October 2008."


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