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10 years after the military murdered their sons, women doubt if justice in Colombia will ever prevai
by Adriaan Alsema October 15, 2018
Dozens of women whose sons were murdered by Colombia’s military went to mass on Sunday to demand justice for one of the worst war crimes in the history of the country’s armed conflict.
Ten years after the Washington Post and weekly Semana revealed that the military was executing civilians and falsely presenting them as guerrillas killed in combat, many of the victims’ families have yet to find out what happened.
Since the prosecution discovered the first “false positives” and the scandal broke in 2008, there have been reports indicating that the military assassinated between 4,200 and 10,000 innocent civilians after 2002.
. . .
The women successfully sued former President Alvaro Uribe for calling their murdered family members “bums,” but instead of justice for the mass murder of their loved ones they received death threats.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/10-years-after-the-military-murdered-their-sons-women-doubt-if-justice-in-colombia-will-ever-prevail/
