Colombia admits new "false positives" killings

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Colombian government officials acknowledge as many as 15 new cases of “false positives”: extrajudicial killings by the armed forces of civilians, which are then reported as guerrillas killed in combat.

In a committee meeting of a group monitoring the cases, Defense Minister Gabriel Silva Lujan said at least 80 people have been involved in the investigation into the illegal extrajudicial murder of civilians by the armed forces since October 2008, Colombian media reported Tuesday.

The government recently said the number of false positive complaints has been declining but, as the defense minister said Tuesday, there is still much more for the investigations to cover. There has been no consensus on the figures on false positives registered after October 2008, the date of a court decision regarding the killings of protected persons, Silva said.

“All participants agreed to acknowledge that there has been a significant reduction in complaints of this type of behavior, attributable to the implementation of fifteen measures in late 2008 designed to prevent these heinous cases," said Silva.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7366-government-admits-new-false-positives-cases-.html

Killing innocent people and then dressing them up as enemies, and this isn't a crime against humanity, why?

Oh, wait... Uribe is our ally. And everyone knows that our allies don't do anything wrong. Silly me.