12 paramilitary bosses charged with crimes leaving 15000 victims

12 paramilitary bosses charged with crimes leaving 15000 victims
posted by Camilo Mejia Giraldo
Feb 4, 2014

Colombai’s Prosecutor General’s Office has charged 12 major paramilitary bosses with around 15,000 victims of a collection of war crimes and other criminal acts before they are set free in June, reported weekly Semana.

After seven years of careful investigations during the so-called Justice and Peace process which has brought a lack of official condemnations so far, prosecutors compiled a dozen major cases—also called “cases of connotation”— which are crimes that are particularly notable or of public importance, such as massacres and selective killings, against the paramilitary bosses and a number of their lieutenants.

This does not mean that in all the cases that the commanders are responsible for have been prioritized. Only those that coincide with sexual violence, illegal recruitment and disappearances, and forced displacement, and others and where there is sufficient evidence for the charges are applied.

Several of the charged paramilitary members have previously been extradited to the United States even though their judicial processes continues in Colombia.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/12-paramilitary-boses-charged-dozen-crimes/

(See link for stats on crimes, atrocities per person.)