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BOGOTA - The
strange case of the
disappearing and later
death of at least 23
Colombian young people
has come to publicity
again, because of
evident contradictions
between President Alvaro
Uribe and the General
Prosecutor Office.
The Colombian President
assured Tuesday publicly
that according to
reports given by the
General Prosecutor
Office and the Legal
Medicine Department,
these young people were
not executed, just as
their relatives and
human rights
organizations thought.
Uribe assured the young
people died in combat
with the military
forces, were involved in
criminal activities and
their death occurred one
month after their
missing.
Colombian General
Prosecutor Mario Iguaran
said later the death of
these young people is
still investigated, so
it cannot be assured or
even disregard if they
were murdered or died in
combat.
Iguaran said that the
Legal Medicine
Department may not
assure these people died
in a confrontation with
the Army, and that such
a conclusion must be
consciously taken by
magistrates in charge of
the investigation.
Iguaran said that the
only clear thing, is
that they died at the
hands of military forces
in a confrontation and
had been recruited, but
they do not know who did
this.
The case went to light
in the middle of
September when the
amount of 11 young
people coming from
humble neighbourhoods
was found in this
capital, reported as
missing.
The fact that all of
these dead young people
were reported as died in
combat with the military
forces has put the
Colombian Armed Forces
in doubt, and now they
are pointed at as
possible responsible for
“positive false”
reporters.
The Colombian government
calls “positive false”
all those cases of
civilians dead at hands
of soldiers, and are
later presented as
guerrillas or
paramilitary.
As much as the number of
dead people increased,
the concern also
increased, since the
number went up from 11
to 23 victims, all of
them found in the
municipality of Ocaña,
northern department of
Santander.
However, the Ocaña Mayor
Office later informed on
at least 100
non-identified dead
bodies in the course of
this year, taken to
Ocaña from other close
places, reported as dead
in combat. |
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