“False Combat Kills are Crimes by the State”

By Movice

Statement from the Encounter of Relatives of Victims of Extrajudicial Executions in Colombia

As the relatives of the victims of extrajudicial executions from different regions of the country gathered in the city of Bogotá on the 5th and 6th of March, 2009, WE DECLARE: 1.

“United to Recover our Memory for a Colombia that does not Forget."

National and international tribute to the victims of extrajudicial killings carried out by the Colombian armed forces. Known as “false positives”, civilians, normally peasant farmers or young people from the lowest income sectors of society, are assassinated and later presented as guerilla killed in combat in order to show them as deaths in the so-called “war against terrorism”.