Domestic abuse call leads to recapture of Army major convicted of civilian killing in Colombia

Domestic abuse call leads to recapture of Army major convicted of civilian killing in Colombia
Jun 5, 2014 posted by Oliver Sheldon

fugitive army major convicted of false positives and sentenced to 53 years in jail has been discovered and recaptured following a police response to an incident of domestic violence in northeastern Colombia, local media has reported Thursday.

Retired army major Marco Wilson Quijano Mariño escaped from military prison several weeks ago. This week, he was apprehended by Technical Investigation Team (CTI) agents in the Nice neighborhood of Cucuta city in the state of Norte de Santander in reported Colombia’s El Tiempo.

According to the prosecutor’s office, even though Quijano was sentenced to 53 years in military prison for the extrajudicial killing of civilians which initiated the “false positives” scandal, he had recently escaped.

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Alexandra Ladino, chief of the National Directorate of the Joint Specialized Judicial Police Prosecution said Quijano is convicted of offenses of enforced disappearance, aggravated murder, conspiracy and forgery of public documents.

The officer was investigated and convicted of the death of Fair Leonardo Porras Bernal , one of a group of young men from Soacha who were taken by the army to Norte de Santander where they were murdered and presented as guerrillas killed in combat in 2008.

The subsequent investigation launched the “false positives” scandal which 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.

http://colombiareports.co/colombia-major-convicted-false-positives-discovered-outside-prison-domestic-abuse-call/

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Marco Wilson Quijano Mariño



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