Retired Colombian soldiers confess to murdering scores of civilians
Issued on: 27/04/2022 - 04:02
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Ten retired members of Colombia’s military began admitting to victims’ families on Tuesday their roles in the assassination of 120 civilians that were later presented as rebels killed in combat.
It was the first public admission by the former soldiers that they had made people disappear before killing them in cold blood.
One general, four colonels and five officers, as well as a civilian, were due to make their confessions to the special tribunal set up as part of the 2016 peace deal that ended a half century of conflict between the government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels.
The “false positives” scandal in which murdered civilians were passed off as enemy combattants is the largest ever to have rocked Colombia’s armed forces.
More:
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20220427-retired-colombian-soldiers-confess-to-murdering-scores-of-civilians
(The number of people they murdered, after torturing them, some publicly to terrorize neighbors and friends will be acknowledged as FAR larger than that, finally. It has been known as a practice for decades, driving many people to leave, and settle in the US, and elsewhere.)