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Judi Lynn

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Thu Jun 5, 2014, 08:10 PM Jun 2014

Colombia’s Post-conflict justice process should include army crimes: Prosecutor General

Colombia’s Post-conflict justice process should include army crimes: Prosecutor General
Jun 5, 2014 posted by Philip Acuña

Colombia’s Prosecutor General has stated that in a post-conflict scenario, the country’s military officials involved in war crimes must be “covered” under a transitional justice framework, national media reported on Thursday.

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“Where there was excessive use of force, extrajudicial killings, killings of protected people, crimes that military members committed during the armed conflict can fall under the transitional justice process,” the prosecutor general added.

Colombia’s so-called “false positives” scandal is centered around the extrajudicial killings of thousands of civilians by members of the armed forces who dressed their victims as guerrillas in order to present them as combat kills.

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What the practice of false positives did — be it intentionally or unintentionally — was inflate the apparent success of the government in its fight against left-wing guerrillas and right wing paramilitaries. In 2007 — the year most false positives were registered — more than one in five registered combat kills were in fact executed civilians.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/military-included-post-conflict-colombia-transitional-justice-process-prosecutor-general/

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Colombia’s Post-conflict justice process should include army crimes: Prosecutor General (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2014 OP
Excellent post. I hope members of the military who killed "false positives" Louisiana1976 Jun 2014 #1
In a sane world, they would have been dealt with so long ago, wouldn't they? n/t Judi Lynn Jun 2014 #2
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