Intelligence agency condemned for M-19 murders

[Judi Lynn]

Intelligence agency condemned for M-19 murders
Tuesday, 01 March 2011 16:45 Jim Glade

Colombia's State Council condemned the country's intelligence agency DAS Tuesday for the 1994 abduction and murder of five former M-19 guerrillas.

The high court ordered the State to pay $233,600 and integral reparations out of court to the families of murdered M-19 rebels Julio Edgar Galvis Quimbay, Raul Gutierrez Guarin, Enan Rafael Lora Mendoza, Fredy Humberto Guerrero and Aide Malaver.

The DAS was ordered by the Council to publish a public apology on their website and keep it in a visible place for at least six months.

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DAS detectives are said to have abducted five demobilized M-19 members between March 16 to 18 1994 to question them about the kidnapping of Jane Roland Novoa, reported Caracol Radio. Their bodies, showing signs of torture, were found on March 20 in a municipality in the central department of Cundinamarca.

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