Colombian court ruling sentences 12 ex-military officers | FARC News

Special court delivered its first sentences against state security forces in Colombia’s decades-long war.

A special Colombian court sentenced 12 former military officers to between five and eight years of reparation work for their involvement in 135 “false positive” deaths – killing civilians and then falsely reporting them as rebel fighters – between the years 2002 and 2005.

Thursday’s landmark ruling…