Mothers of Victims of Colombia's 'False Positives' Sue Uribe for Slander

Mothers of Victims of Colombia's 'False Positives' Sue Uribe for Slander
Published 14 December 2015 (14 hours 35 minutes ago)

A group of mothers in Colombia whose sons were murdered by the military in 2008 are suing former President Alvaro Uribe for slander after he posted on his Twitter feed that the sons were criminals, according to news reports Monday.

Uribe was commander in chief of the military when it carried out operations which came to be known as the “false positives” scandal – when the military executed thousands of Colombians, dressed them in guerrilla garb and reported them as guerrillas killed in combat. They did this in order to receive financial benefits and to inflate the military’s success in the battle against the insurgents.

The mothers, from the central Colombian city of Soacha, filed a lawsuit Friday against Uribe for suggesting that their sons – who were victims of this practice – were somehow involved in criminal activity.

“He marks our sons as thugs while he never knew them,” Marila Ubilerma Sanabria, whose 16-year-old son was killed, told Caracol News.

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