Lawyer of demobilized paramilitaries killed

[Judi Lynn]

Lawyer of demobilized paramilitaries killed
Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:23 Manuela Kuehr

Oswaldo Ochoa Garcia, a lawyer representing demobilized paramilitaries, was assassinated in downtown Bogota, W Radio reported Thursday.

Ochoa was travelling in a taxi when two gunmen on a motorcycle shot him several times.

The lawyer represented 15 demobilized members of the Montes de Maria bloc of the AUC paramilitary coalition, as well as bloc leader "Rodrigo Cadena" and Mojana Bloc leader Eder "Ramon Mojana" Pedraza Peña, who was extradited to the U.S. in August.

Before the assassination of Ochoa Garcia, the AUC raised concerns that there was a lack of security for the lawyers and families of demobilized paramilitaries

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/13105-lawyer-demobilized-paramilitaries-killed.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Murdered lawyer alias "Diego Vecino"

Murdered lawyer alias "Diego Vecino"
Barranquilla, Friday, November 26, 2010 4:37

Bogotá.

Late on Wednesday night, while traveling in a taxi on a street in the town of Teusaquillo, was shot Oswaldo Ochoa García, a lawyer defending a former member of the Defense Forces of Colombia, AUC, Edward Tellez Cobos, alias Diego Vecino.

The lawyer hired gunmen approached him and handed nine gunshot fire that claimed the life. The driver, identified as Crisanto Ortiz, 48 years old, was also killed in the events. Both were taken to the emergency room of a nearby clinic, where he died minutes later.

Ochoa Garcia also defended other 15 former paramilitaries in the Justice and Peace process, including Cadena Rodrigo Mercado, alias Rodrigo Cadena, a former military commander of the Bloque Montes de Maria. Likewise, had defended alias Ramon Mojana, extradited to the U.S.. At the same time, had been an advocate of 'parapoliticians', as former Senator Álvaro García Romero, linked to the slaughter of Macayepo and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Google translation from El Heraldo:
http://www.elheraldo.com.co/ELHERALDO/BancoConocimiento/2/2asesinado_abogado_de_alias_diego_vecino/2asesinado_abogado_de_alias_diego_vecino.asp?CodSeccion=22





One of his big narcotrafficking death squad para leader clients,
Edward Tellez Cobos, alias Diego Vecino, who was extradited
to the US in order to be tried on narcotrafficking charges by the
U.S., where he would no longer be questioned by the Colombian
prosecutors concerning crimes against the Colombian people in
the service of politicians, or large corporations.

Information on the lawyer's BIG client, Edward Tellez Cobos, "Diego Vecina", reveals he was involved in displacing large
numbers of people from their homes, villages, and killing people who didn't leave.

Discussed in this article, google translated, from Noticias:

First convictions against former paramilitary leaders

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According to the verdict, Cobos and Banquez committed crimes against humanity such as kidnapping, murder and forced displacement. Both also must pay fines of close to 770 million pesos (about $ 385,000) to compensate the victims or their families.

"Will condemn these demobilized nominated by serious violations of international humanitarian law because, as the armed conflict, attacked the civilian population to move it from its territory, threatening the lives of noncombatants and looting their properties, "the judge said Jimenez.

In particular, Cobos and material Banquez agreed to participate in the events of the villages called Mampuján, San Cayetano and Múcura Island, all located in the department of Bolivar in the country's Caribbean coast.

On 10 March 2000, a paramilitary group reached Mampuján and ordered the inhabitants to meet in a soccer field. A hooded man began to look one by one of the farmers and noted that there was no looking guerrilla, the paramilitaries said they forgave their lives but they should leave the region within 24 hours. The peasants, terrified, fled the spot. A day later, in the village of San Cayetano, paramilitaries killed 11 peasants

More:
http://www.noticias.com.co/2010/06/30/primeras-condenas-contra-ex-jefes-paramilitares/