Retired army officer, Coronel Jaime Humberto Pinzón, handed over his "Medal For Distinguished Service" to the families of 53 young men who were executed as “false positives” while he commandeered the Tenth Infantry Battalion Atanasio Giradot.
Colombian army officers kidnapped and executed over 6,400 civilians from 2002 to 2008 and falsely reported them as Marxist guerrillas killed in combat to boost body counts, a special tribunal found.
Colombian army officers kidnapped and executed over 6,400 civilians from 2002 to 2008 and falsely reported them as Marxist guerrillas killed in combat to boost body counts, a special tribunal found.
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This was the last major public hearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Colombia. On May 10 in Soacha, three retired soldiers listened to 13 women tell them about the unbearable and permanent pain of losing their son or brother. The ex-soldiers admitted their responsibility in the "false positives" scandal, extrajudicial executions carried out by the army between 2002 and 2008 to inflate the figures of guerrilla fatalities.