“My battalion was killing civilians to get them off leave,” the former Colombian military says

Stories of innocent young people killed by soldiers during the armed conflict in Colombia and stories of families of victims of so-called “false positives” were found this Tuesday at a Truth Commission event held in Cali.

“The comrades’ despair led them to conspire to kill two minors we took so we could go on vacation because we hadn’t been out for 8 months,” said Fredy de Jesús Martínez, a representative of the victims of Antioquia (northwest) and Eje Cafetero, during the Encounter for th...