Peace court: Colombia army 'behind 6,400 extrajudicial killings'

[Judi Lynn]

1. Thank goodness, someone is still working on this. They wanted to keep it buried, obviously.

From the article:

. . . . It also suggests that the majority of the "false positives" were carried out between 2002 and 2008, during the presidency of Álvaro Uribe.

What's the background?
The "false positives" scandal first erupted in 2008, but the practice is thought to date back as far as the 1980s.

More than 1,700 people have been sentenced for their role in the false positives.

Members of the military have given evidence in a number of court cases over the past decade and told how they were pressured by their superiors to drive up their "kill rate" and how they would be rewarded by being given promotions or extra days off.

In one case, eight soldiers were jailed for taking four farmers from their homes by force, shooting them in the back and dressing them up as rebels.

In other instances, young men were lured from poor neighbourhoods of the capital, Bogotá, with promises of work, only to be murdered and dressed in rebel fatigues.

Álvaro Uribe, bloodthirsty dictator, drops by to receive the Medal of Freedom.



"Oh, you shouldn't have."