HRW: Columbia officers likely knew of "false positive" civilian killings
By William Helbling on Jun 25, 2015 02:59 pm
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Wednesday
released a report [materials] containing evidence that many Colombian
army generals and colonels knew about or should have known about
extrajudicial killings of civilians between 2002 and 2008. According to
the group, prosecutors are investigating a total of 3,000 cases
involving military troops killing civilians to boost death counts to
combat and instill fear in armed guerrilla groups in the country. The
report alleges that many upper level military officials knew... +read more
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