Peace negotiator implicated in one of Colombia’s most traumatic political murders
Peace negotiator implicated in one of Colombia’s most traumatic political murders
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Aug 13, 2015
A former top commander of paramilitary AUC has testified that a military general who takes part in peace negotiations with FARC rebels also took part in the killing of journalist and comedian Jaime Garzon.
According to weekly Semana, the ex-commander of the AUC’s Bloque Cacique Nutibara, “Don Berna,” testified before prosecutors that among those conspiring to kill Garzon on August 13, 1998 were then-Police Mayor Mauricio Santoyo, National Army General Harold Bedoya and, most controversially, then army commander General Jorge Enrique Mora.
Santoyo, who was later promoted to General and became the personal security chief of former President Alvaro Uribe, was sentenced to 13 years by a US court after prosecutors successfully demonstrated the top police official had been working together with drug trafficking organizations.
Bedoya, currently a close ally of Uribe in opposing the peace talks, has long been accused of ties to the AUC, a paramilitary organization that committed tens of thousands of human rights violations between 1997 and 2006 when its last unit was demobilized. But also Mora was cooperating with paramilitary groups and helped conspire the killing of Garzon, said Don Berna according to Semana.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/peace-negotiator-implicated-in-one-of-colombias-most-traumatic-political-murders/
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Jaime Garzon's car after his assassination
Statue created to memorialize one of Garzon's well- tv program,
including famous military personnel, politicians, etc.
Image of Jaime Garzon's shoe-shine boy giving Jaime Garzon a shoe shine.
He often wrapped himself in the flag.
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