Judge on child murder case assassinated

[Judi Lynn]

Judge on child murder case assassinated
Tuesday, 22 March 2011 10:45
Kathryn Thompson

A judge presiding over a controversial murder case has been shot on her way to a municipal court in northern Colombia, El Tiempo reported on Tuesday.

The assassination occured at 8:00AM on Tuesday in front of the headquarters of a transport carrier in the town of Saravena in the Arauca department.

Judge Gloria Costanza Gaona was in charge of the case in which the army is suspected of brutally murdering three young siblings in October 2010 just 43 miles from where Costanza was killed.

60 members of the Army's 5th Moblie Brigade were subsequently investigated for October's killings with the police taking into custody army 2nd lieutenant Raul Muñoz Linares.

Judge on child murder case assassinated
Tuesday, 22 March 2011 10:45
Kathryn Thompson

A judge presiding over a controversial murder case has been shot on her way to a municipal court in northern Colombia, El Tiempo reported on Tuesday.

The assassination occured at 8:00AM on Tuesday in front of the headquarters of a transport carrier in the town of Saravena in the Arauca department.

Judge Gloria Costanza Gaona was in charge of the case in which the army is suspected of brutally murdering three young siblings in October 2010 just 43 miles from where Costanza was killed.

60 members of the Army's 5th Moblie Brigade were subsequently investigated for October's killings with the police taking into custody army 2nd lieutenant Raul Muñoz Linares.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/15060-judge-in-charge-of-child-murder-case-assassinated.html

Semana reports the girl was 14 years old, her brothers were 9 and 6 years old.

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The U.S. Government heavily funds the Colombian military each year since 2000, totaling well above 7 billion dollars already.
The Colombian military has also been known to repeatedly murder young Colombian men, then count them as murdered leftist guerrilas, thereby maintaining the image that Colombia is under heavy armed seige from political enemies. This act of murderous deceit already acquired a name long ago: "false positives".

[rabs]

1. Even by Colombian standards, this is more ugly than usual

The judge was shot five time in the head. She was yards away from the court building, which had guards posted outside. Still, the sicario (hitman) escaped.

Colombian media reported other witnesses have been threatened and there is a proposal to move the trial to Bogota.

The United Nations has sent a human rights commission delegate to investigate the assassination of the judge.

JuanMa Santos re3sponded by saying a commission would be created to look into the crime.

The killings of the three siblings, and the rape of the 14-year-old girl, caused great revulsion even among Colombians who are mostly inured to the savagery.

[rabs]

2. Dead children's father to be relocated

His oldest daughter received a call on her cell phone saying the father would be killed.

Colombia's attorney general, Vargas Lleras, yesterday announced the "relocation" of the father (and presumably the remaining children) to an unknown location somewhere in Colombia.

Other potential witnesses and even the NGO lawyers who are in Arauca to prosecute the case have also been threatened. After the assassination of the judge, those threats are being taken seriously.

The problem is that the army officer, Lt. Munoz, has confessed to the rape of the 14 year old child. But he has NOT confessed to slaughtering the girl and her two little brothers;

That means that there is someone who is determined to defend the killer/killers of the children.

Who? Remember that at first about 60 soldiers were rounded up for questioning. But only Munoz was implicated, in the rape, not the killings.

(above info from Colombian Spanish-language media)

[Judi Lynn]

3. My god. So not only has the family lost these children, they are being terrorized themselves.

That place has to be like hell right now.

Even the paras were able to trace a state's witness all the way to the outer extremes of Canada, and get his cell phone number, his address, landline phone, and start terrorizing him there too, telling him they were coming to get him when he turned to the Canadian government next for help.

They are relentless, and have the full resources of a government with total access to US facilities, too. I wouldn't think there's anyplace someone could hide when the Colombian, US-supported government is out to get him/her.

Sickening, infinitely horrible. What a pure hell.

Startling learning the conditions of the murder of the judge. So sad.

Thanks for the more complete information.

[rabs]

4. Here are the enemies of the state

José Torres, campesino father of the three murdered children. He has two left, including a 17-year-old girl who got a call yesterday that the killers were going after her father. She had gone to a store on her bicycle to buy toilet paper when she got the threatening call.

That is why the family is being relocated, according to Interior Minister Vargas Lleras.