7 Colombian soldiers charged for killing civilians to fake drug lord’s death
7 Colombian soldiers charged for killing civilians to fake drug lord’s death
posted by Marcus Sales
Aug 12, 2013
Seven soldiers have been charged for murdering civilians to fake the death in combat of a now-arrested neo-paramilitary drug lord, local media reported on Sunday.
According to the publication, Colonel Oscar Orlando Gomez Cifuentes, Captain Hair Arturo Aguilar Restropo and five others were charged in Villavicencio, capital of the department of Meta under the military crimes of murder of protected persons and falsifying a public document.
The 2007 killings were an attempt to fabricate the death of Dumar Guerrero, alias “Carecuchillo”, second in command of right wing neo-paramilitary group ERPAC.
The then-commander of the fourth division of the Colombian army, General Guillermo Quinonez, claimed that Carecuchillo had been killed in a battle with Colombia’s armed forces in Cumaribo, in the department of Vichada.
Carecuchillo however, was never killed.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/7-soldiers-charged-in-central-colombia-for-the-murder-of-civilians/