Ex-military in Colombia sentenced to 44 years in prison
(AFP) - 18 hours
Bogotá - for participation in the murder of more than 245 civilians have been sentenced a former Major in Colombia to 44 years in prison. Alirio Antonio Urena was sentenced for his role in the systematic murder of civilians in the western city of Trujillo in the years 1986 to 1994, the Government informed.
Urena then commanded an army brigade in the state of Cauca with close ties to right-wing paramilitaries who were responsible, according to the prosecutor for the mass murder in Trujillo. About the victims had been saying that they had collaborated with leftist rebels.
The paramilitaries mutilated the corpses of the victims often beyond recognition, in many cases they were cut with chainsaws. The victims included the popular and politically active priests Tiberio Fernández. His body was castrated and beheaded in the Cauca River found. The verdict against Urena was the first in the fall of the systematic killings in Trujillo. First, Urena and his co-defendants were acquitted in 1991 but the process was reopened.
In another method, seven Colombian soldiers who were also sentenced to imprisonment. A court in Villavicencio, about 100 kilometers south of Bogota was she guilty in July 2007, a man kidnapped and murdered have they falsely represented as fighters of the leftist FARC rebels. This phenomenon is in Colombia as "falso positivo known. The Colombian Army is accused of repeatedly kill innocent bystanders, then they pose as rebels in order to book the acts as a success in the battle against insurgents can. The exact punishment for the seven men sentenced to be published in November.
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