Colombian army captain implicated in paramilitary massacre .
Colombian army captain implicated in paramilitary massacre .
Friday, 22 June 2012 16:45 Olle Ohlsen Pettersson
The Colombian Prosecutor General's Office of Human Rights issued an arrest warrant Friday June 15 against an army captain accused by former paramilitaries of participating in a 2001 massacre against civilians, wrote the NGO Verdad Abierta on Friday.
The office said that recent testimonies given by former members of the far-right paramilitary group, the AUC, implicated captain Mauricio Zambrano in the planning of the El Naya massacre, which took place in April 2001 between the southwestern Valle del Cauca and Cauca departments.
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On April 21 2001, some 220 AUC paramilitaries arrived at the village of El Naya and killed between 24 and 200 villagers, according to various estimates. More than 3,000 residents were subsequently displaced under the pretext of the AUC fighting left-wing FARC guerrillas and their sympathizers.
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The AUC member Armando Lugo, alias “El Cabezon,” one of the paramilitaries on trial for the massacre, said in 2010 that Captain Zambrano had allowed him access to a military base near El Naya, where war material used by the paramilitaries was allegedly obtained.
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