Soldiers receive 40 years in prison each for false positive murders

[Judi Lynn]

Soldiers receive 40 years in prison each for false positive murders
Aug 28, 2014 posted by Craig Corbett

A criminal court in central Colombia has sentenced six soldiers to 40 years in prison each for their part in false positive murders of civilians.

Six soldiers were charged with murder on Wednesday for killing two civilians and later portraying them as FARC combatants, Caracol Radio reported.

The crime dates back to 10th February 2005, when civilians Didier Lasso Delgado and Yimy Alexander Ortiz Tavera were murdered in the rural municipality of Lebrija, in the central state of Santander.

Cesar Hernandez, Fernando Cortez, Nelson Villamil, Joneth Gelvez, Humberto Monsalve, and Sargent Felio Fernando Adrada were found guilty of the murder on Wednesday.

The false positive scandal shook Colombia after it was discovered that the Colombia military were murdering civilians and then registering the kills as enemy combatants from guerrilla groups such as FARC in order to boost their success rate.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/soldiers-receive-40-years-prison-false-positive-murders/

[Demeter]

1. good for Colombia

how did they manage to pull off justice?

[Judi Lynn]

2. The recent President, whose brother has been ordered to not leave Colombia,

is currently out of office, knock on wood.

Justice wouldn't be happening at all if Uribe had been able to get the Supreme Court to consent to letting him run again.

You might recall his secret service agency, D.A.S., was wiretapping the Supreme Court (whom he considered his enemies) as well as all his other political enemies, and union leaders, Native Colombian and African-Colombian leaders, human rights leaders of all kinds, sympathetic-to-the-poor clergy, teachers, etc., etc. etc. .