11 October 2010 Last updated at 22:49
Elite Colombian soldiers guilty of killing civilian
A court in Colombia has found seven members of an elite anti-kidnapping squad guilty of killing a civilian and saying he was a left-wing guerrilla.
The soldiers claimed they had killed Eduardo Perez Vega in combat in the eastern province of Casanare in 2007. They then said he was a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
The incident was one of hundreds of so-called "false-positive" cases, which were used by the Colombian military and police to inflate their successes.
Thousands of people are believed to have been killed in such extrajudicial executions, which started to come to light during the tenure of former President Alvaro Uribe.
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