Colombian govt to pay for murdering civilian .

Colombian govt to pay for murdering civilian .
Friday, 04 May 2012 09:57
Brandon Barrett

A Colombian court has ordered the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces to pay more than $260,000 to the family of a young man who was murdered and disguised as a guerrilla in 1998.

Juan Carlos Misat Camargo was abducted in the northern department of Cesar by the counter-insurgent Battalion 40 before being killed, adorned in camouflage and planted with a rifle to look like a member of the ELN guerrilla group.

The Colombian government was ordered by the State Council, the country's highest administrative court, to pay over $260,000 in compensation to Camargo's wife and son.

~snip~

The phenomenon of the Colombian army disguising murdered civilians as guerrillas to increase kill counts is popularly known as "false positives."

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/23868-colombian-govt-to-pay-for-false-positive-killing.html