11 people indicted for 'false positive' murder

11 people indicted for 'false positive' murder
Friday, 25 March 2011 13:42
Tom Heyden

The Prosecutor General's Office has accused four soldiers and seven civilians of participation in the murder of a man in La Guajira and subsequently presenting his body as being that of a guerrilla, El Mundo reports.

Yilber de Jesus Atencio Orozco was killed on February 11, 2007, in an area known as "Las Piscinas," in the northern Caribbean-coast department of La Guajira.

His death was initially recorded as being a result of combat with guerrilla insurgents, although this account of events was disregarded upon further investigation, which uncovered that there was no armed confrontation and he was not even a rebel fighter.

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