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Medellin energy company called to appear before war crimes tribunal
(Image: EPM)
Medellin energy company called to appear before war crimes tribunal
by Adriaan Alsema September 6, 2019
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal will return to Medellin in October to learn why the city’s energy company EPM flooded an area where prosecutors were looking for hundreds of missing persons.
The session will be the second in the city where Mayor Federico Gutierrez was reprimanded by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) for trying to keep a report on missing persons secret.
The JEP’s first session was about the hundreds of people who went missing in the city after the military and local crime lord “Don Berna” expelled leftist militias from the city in 2002 and Berna’s crime syndicate, La Oficina de Envigado, took control.
The sessions on October 8 and 9 seeks to clarify the role of EPM in preventing the search for missing persons in the valley that was flooded by the energy company and is now the reservoir of the controversial Ituango hydroelectric dam project.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/medellin-energy-company-called-to-appear-before-war-crimes-tribunal/