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'Colombia's former army chief continued to promote murder after his resignation'
Retired General Mario Montoya (R) and former President Alvaro Uribe. (Image: President's Office)
by Brenden Paulsen July 17, 2019
Colombia’s former army commander is facing more than 100 testimonies that would prove how his orders set in motion a bloodbath unseen in the country’s armed conflict even after his resignation.
Newspaper El Espectador obtained the 2008 military order by Montoya’s successor, general Freddy Padilla, that sought to stop the mass killing allegedly instigated by General Mario Montoya after he demanded his subordinated “buckets of blood.”
According to the newspaper, a prosecution report sent to the war crimes tribunal demonstrated that Padilla’s order to prioritize “the collective and individual demobilization over captures, and these over combat kills” was ignored by soldiers who, apparently loyal to Montoya, assassinated another 100 civilians.
The prosecution reportedly informed the court that Montoya allegedly challenged his successor’s order and continued to promote combat kills over arrests or the surrender of enemy combatants from guerrilla group like the FARC and ELN.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-former-army-chief-continued-to-promote-murder-after-his-resignation/
