Nearly 200 convicted and for cases of “false positives”
A report by the Presidency of the Republic broadcast on television and reported by Prensa Latina news agency revealed that there are 708 123 processed as part of court records.
To analyze the incidence of this crime, President Alvaro Uribe met last night at the Casa de Narino with delegates from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at a meeting in which they were also representatives from the Ministry of Defence, Armed Forces and Directorate of Military Criminal Justice.
Data revealed after the meeting show that since 2008, issued 52 judgments against 194 people, 708 are in trial stage, and 281 were favored with the abstention of measures due to false accusations.
My office also detailed in the military 218 military sector, including five colonels, six seniors and nine captains, were also convicted of cases of “false positives” farmers or workers who were murdered and then presented as guerrillas killed.
A former aide to Uribe was called to trial this week by the scandal of arbitrary executions in the Armed Forces.
The Attorney General”s Office confirmed an indictment against a retired Army colonel, Alvaro Tamayo, for the crime of forced disappearance of civilians.
According to judicial sources , Tamayo was also marked by a human rights prosecutor under the charges of conspiracy and falsifying public documents.
Former aide to the President to appear before court for their alleged links with murder of a young resident in the town of Soacha, Cundinamarca, which occurred in December 2007.
The case broke in late 2008 and it is presumed that members of Colombia”s army killed indigent other people at random to pass them off as rebels killed in combat, so to earn francs and other benefits. (Telam) .- ab-dsg24/04/2010 16:56
April 25, 2010 1:06 pm 
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