The banner reads "False Positives are State Crimes" and we agreeIKN applauds today's decision by a court in Medellín, Colombia, to ratify the 30 year sentences handed down to 10 Colombian soldiers convicted of so-called "false positives" murders in 2005. The case in question was about two young Colombian men, Arley de Jesús Vallejo Cardona and John Fredy García Cardona, who were arrested by the soldiers while selling food on the streets of Medellín on 2005 and turned up dead the next day. The soldiers had murdered the boys in cold blood, then dressed them up as FARC terrorists and claimed they had been killed in battle (normal M.O for the false positives cases), and all because the Army units (whose ministerial head at the time was the current presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos) had to meet quotas of dead FARC terrorists to get bonuses and more time off.
The abhorrent practices of false positives are every bit as bad as the disgusting behaviour of the FARC scum, but if it hadn't been for persistent protests from human rights group (yeah, them meddling kids and their pesky dawg) along with the judicial independence in Colombia, the Uribe government would have managed to keep the whole thing quiet and off the current agenda. How much better it is to know before another of the Uribe lying scumballs gets elected!
Meanwhile, rights groups that made issue of the deaths of Arley de Jesús Vallejo Cardona and John Fredy García Cardona say that theirs are only two of around two thousand cases of false positives identified in the country (yeah...two thousand!) the vast majority of which have been left uninvestigated, hushed-up and ignored.
It's going to be fun to see just how high up any investigation runs under a Mockus presidency, isn't it?
The abhorrent practices of false positives are every bit as bad as the disgusting behaviour of the FARC scum, but if it hadn't been for persistent protests from human rights group (yeah, them meddling kids and their pesky dawg) along with the judicial independence in Colombia, the Uribe government would have managed to keep the whole thing quiet and off the current agenda. How much better it is to know before another of the Uribe lying scumballs gets elected!
Meanwhile, rights groups that made issue of the deaths of Arley de Jesús Vallejo Cardona and John Fredy García Cardona say that theirs are only two of around two thousand cases of false positives identified in the country (yeah...two thousand!) the vast majority of which have been left uninvestigated, hushed-up and ignored.
It's going to be fun to see just how high up any investigation runs under a Mockus presidency, isn't it?