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Colombias Post-conflict justice process should include army crimes: Prosecutor General
Jun 5, 2014 posted by Philip Acuña
Colombias Prosecutor General has stated that in a post-conflict scenario, the countrys 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.
Colombias 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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(3,962 posts)face trial for war crimes.