Jailed Colombia army colonel names ex-commander general as ‘creator of false positives’ [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Jailed Colombia army colonel names ex-commander general as ‘creator of false positives’
Jun 9, 2014 posted by Tim Hinchliffe

A former colonel imprisoned for war crimes has accused the former commander general of Colombia’s National Army of orchestrating the murder of thousands of innocent civilians, local media reported

Jailed Colonel Robinson Gonzalez, convicted for his own role in the so-called “false positives” scandal, has named former General Mario Montoya as the architect of what he describes as an institutional rather than isolated practice, reported La FM radio Monday.

False positives is the term used to refer to murders carried out by paramilitary and military troops and later passed off as combat kills as part of the government offensive’s against Colombia’s rebel groups.

FACT SHEET: False Positives

Of the 1,000 combat kills claimed by the “Army of the North” during Montoya’s command, 200 were false positives, according to Gonzalez, who claimed that Montoya became the “creator of false positives” after being pressured to beef up his kill statistics.

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http://colombiareports.co/jailed-army-colonel-offers-testimony-colombia-govt-murdered-200-civilians/