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Weekly Report - 14 January 2010 (WR-10-02)
COLOMBIA: Uribe at odds with judiciary over human rights
President Alvaro Uribe expressed his concern this week at a judicial
ruling on 8 January releasing 17 soldiers accused of carrying out extrajudicial
executions. Uribe was driven to speak out because the case against the soldiers
earned international notoriety: in September 2008 the bodies of unemployed young
men from the Bogotá slum of Soacha were found hundreds of miles away in unmarked
graves, presented as guerrillas as part of an egregious “rewards for results"
incentive programme. The scandal won the grim euphemism “false positives". Uribe
is very concerned that impunity in the case could damage Colombia's democratic
credibility and financial support from the US.
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