“Today, I want the world to know that they were peasants,” Néstor (*10*) Gutiérrez, a former corporal within the Colombian navy, mentioned of his victims, “that as a member of the military, I cowardly assassinated them, I stole their children’s dreams, I ripped out their mother’s hearts, because of pressure, to produce results, to produce false results, to make a government happy. It’s not right.”
The courtroom’s magistrates imagine that their victims are only a small fraction of these killed between 2002 and 2008, throughout the presidency of Álvaro Uribe, as a part of the false positives technique. In all, the courtroom mentioned in a current investigative report that the navy is answerable for killing 6,402 civilians and claiming they had been rebels.
For years, many Colombians have demanded to know who was the best determine with data of the scheme, who was the best determine to orchestrate it and why Mr. Uribe didn’t cease it.
Human rights teams and the United Nations human rights workplace had raised alarm about suspicious deaths no less than way back to 2005.
The listening to didn’t reply who was finally answerable for the technique. General Coronado is the highest-ranking official to admit duty within the false positives case, however his confession centered on his failure to oversee others.
“I did not comply with the first lesson they gave me when I entered military school: The commander is responsible for what his subordinates do and do not do,” he mentioned in courtroom. “I accept my responsibility for having served as a hierarchical superior.”
The hearings additionally highlighted a stage of institutional coordination designed to cowl up the reality.
“We stayed up all night doing documentation, changing documentation, even deleting documentation,” mentioned Juan Carlos Chaparro, a retired main. “And always, after everything was over, tarnishing the name of their relatives, calling them what they really were not.”
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