Duque put nine alleged war criminals in top army positions: HRW

by Adriaan Alsema February 27, 2019

Human Rights Watch accused Colombia’s President Ivan Duque of promoting nine alleged war criminals who are “credibly implicated in extrajudicial executions and other abuses.”

Among the suspected war criminals, the human rights organization said, are National Army commander General Nicasio de Jesus Martinez.

The current army chief was second in command of the 10th brigade that is being investigated by prosecutors for allegedly executing 23 civilians and presenting them as civilians killed in combat in 2005.

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In 2011, a court convicted two soldiers and a former paramilitary member for murdering the pair. It found that troops abducted the victims from their home at dawn, murdered them, placed weapons on their bodies, and reported them as FARC guerrillas killed in combat. In 2013, an appeals court asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigate “possible [criminal] conduct due to [possible] lack of control by the superiors.”

More:
https://colombiareports.com/duque-put-nine-alleged-war-criminals-in-top-army-positions-hrw/

LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142275830



Well, he should be proud, he has been able to murder innocent civilians, dress them as the
"enemy" and count them as dead enemies who got nailed in battle.