Colombia’s former army commander called into questioning over extrajudicial killings

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Colombia’s former army commander called into questioning over extrajudicial killings
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Jun 23, 2015

The former commander of Colombia’s National Army was called in for interrogation on Monday over his alleged role in the killing of thousands of civilians who fraudulently were reported as killed guerrillas.

Montoya is one of 22 generals investigated for the killing of at least 4,000 civilians who were executed, dressed up in guerrilla clothing by members of the military and subsequently registered as guerrillas killed in combat.

Montoya assumed the leadership of the army in 2006 and resigned in November 2008 after the “false positives” practice had become public.

The gruesome practice became so common during the administration of former President Alvaro Uribe that by 2007, more than 40% of registered combat kills were in fact murdered civilians.





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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Funny. That crew of Venezuelan democracy lovers never comments on this stuff.

It must be some sort of medical condition. I'd call it ideological blindness.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Right-wing government's killing of innocent civilians, knocking off 1,000's of them is A-OK.

They have no problem whatsoever with the closely allied Colombian paramilitaries and their military and the unbearable atrocities and assorted massacres of Colombian citizens. They look the other way and start looking forward to the next time a cheap professional propagandist tosses out another story on toilet paper shortages in Venezuela.

That can get them squawking and howling among themselves for months.

Don't even think they give a flying #### about deadly, tragic situations in Colombia our own government has been supporting with our tax dollars, which has risen above NINE billion dollars by now, since 2000.

[geek tragedy]

2. Seems like Colombia is prosecuting more of its own war criminals

than the rest of the hemisphere combined.