Paramilitary killing spree was Colombia ‘state policy': Judge [View all]
Paramilitary killing spree was Colombia ‘state policy': Judge
Nov 1, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema
A Bogota court ruled on Friday that a series of massacres, homicides and forced displacement operations carried out by paramilitaries in the north and northeast of Colombia in the late 1990s was “state policy.”
The condemnation came with a verdict in which the extradited chief of the paramilitaries, Salvatore Mancuso, was sentenced to eight years in prison. the maximum sentence agreed between the state and the paramilitaries in 2005 when signing peace.
As part of his plea bargain with the special Justice and Peace prosecution unit, Mancuso admitted to 402 crimes, including 300 murders of which one was of a 22-month-old girl.
Additionally, the paramilitary chief admitted to having led four massacres, and that under his command more than five thousand civilians were assassinated.
The man who led the AUC between 2004 and 2006 also laid bare how government officials and the military had made up an integrated part of the AUC’s operations.
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