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Colonel Hernan Mejia: from The Americas' Best Soldier to one of Colombia's most feared war criminals
by Adriaan Alsema June 23, 2019
Former army Colonel Hernan Mejia was twice named “Best Soldier of the Americas,” but has since become one of the most feared war criminals in Colombia.
Mejia submitted to the JEP, “with the firm belief that the only way Colombia can reconcile with its past is by telling the truth, that history will not be an an agreement with a set of agreed-upon lies,” he told journalist Vicky Davila of W Radio.
Mejia’s omerta
The colonel’s subordinates, however, fear that if they tell the truth about the former colonel, they will await the same fate as two previous witnesses.
Fredys Oñate and Jose Trinidad were assassinated before they could testify about Mejia’s ties to “Jorge 40,” the paramilitary warlord who also had ties to Davila’s in-laws, the Gnecco crime family.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colonel-hernan-mejia-from-best-soldier-of-the-americas-to-one-of-colombias-most-feared-war-criminals/
