Colombia: Former General Knew of Extrajudicial Killings - HRW

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BOGOTÁ, Colombia - General Mario Montoya Uribe, the lifelong military man and former Commander of the Colombian National Army, knew of the extrajudicial killings carried out as part of the 'false positives' case and did nothing to stop them, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that cited former generals.

Montoya Uribe, who was the top man in the armed forces from 2006 to 2008, resigned due to his implication in the 'False Positives' scandal.

This was a despicable plan in which, from 2002 to 2008, over 3,000 poor, jobless and sometimes even developmentally challenged men in rural regions were lured with promises of work by Colombian soldiers.

The men were then executed, dressed in military fatigues and passed off as Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, the group which had been locked in a war with the Colombian military from...