Colombia’s Inspector General 'disappears' 800 cases of extrajudicial killings .
Colombia’s Inspector General 'disappears' 800 cases of extrajudicial killings .
Tuesday, 06 November 2012 09:16 Esteban Manriquez
Nearly 800 cases relating to the killing of civilians by members of the armed forces will not be processed due to a revised definition by the Inspector General, newspaper El Tiempo reported Monday.
Colombia's so-called "false positives" scandal refers to the extrajudicial killings of thousands of civilians by members of the armed forces who dressed their victims as guerrillas in order to present them as combat kills.
On account of a legal interpretation by Colombia’s Inspector General, which handles disciplinary matters of state employees, the number of “false positives” investigations from 2009 has dropped from 1,274 to 492.
According to El Tiempo, the number of cases to be investigated differs significantly from the figures Inspector General’s office submitted to the UN in September 2009.
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