Colombian authorities confirmed this Sunday murder of five people in the municipality of La Unión, in Valle del Cauca, in the west of the country.
This was reported by the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), who detailed that the massacre in the middle of a public highway increased the number of such acts to 57 this year.
According to information collected by local media, in a house where slaughter while celebrating a party, they were attacked by an unknown group, killing five and injuring five, one of them in critical condition. The event caused a sensation in Colombia.
Local mayor William Palomino said police were conducting the necessary investigations into the motives and possible perpetrators of the massacre. He also added that an extraordinary security council will be held in the next few hours to study what happened.
The massacre came days after a similar event in the municipality of Espinal, where three people were executed, two of them Venezuelans. In this context, a meeting of the Security Council of Colombia is planned.
Among the victims is Putumayo Puerto Caicedo, who signed a peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016, which is currently undergoing the process of reincorporation in the Department of Putumayo.
Similarly, indigenous leader and Piguambi Palangala group member Maria Veronica Pai also died in the attack.
According to Indepaz, 102 leaders and human rights activists were killed in Colombia in 2022, a figure that has risen to 1,336 since the signing of the Peace Agreement.
World Court indicts 19 soldiers for killing civilians
The Colombian judiciary charged 19 soldiers with war crimes and crimes against humanity for killing 303 people, most of them civilians, whom they presented as having died in combat between 2005 and 2008.
The executions are part of the so-called “false positives,” a scandalous bloody plot that army officers staged to inflate their results in the fight against the guerrillas.
In a public statement, the Special Justice of the Peace (JEP) said he had collected evidence to charge 19 soldiers, in addition to an intelligence agent and two civilians, with the murder and enforced disappearance of hundreds of people in the Casanare department. .(East).
The uniformed men belonged to the 16th Brigade, where a “criminal organization” had been set up to kill and “falsely” portray civilians as partisans or criminals “killed in action,” the magistrates said.
(According to Europe Press)
Source: RPP
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