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Colombia's war crimes tribunal pulling corpses out of Medellin's closet
Extradited crime lord Don Berna (L) and Governor Luis Perez.
by Stephen Gill July 19, 2019
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal has given Medellin authorities until Friday to surrender information about the location of mass graves the city hall was trying to keep secret.
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) ordered the Medellin Mayor’s office to surrendered the university study with alleged details about 174 people who where disappeared by paramilitary forces from the western Comuna 13 at a hearing on Wednesday.
Victims asked the court to also impose a work ban on two sand dumps just outside the city limits where as many as 300 people could be buried based on multiple testimonies by neighbors, victims and demobilized paramilitaries.
A city built on mass graves?
Testimonies given before the court made it painfully evident how the city’s subsequent administrations categorically ignored victims, particularly those of “Operation Orion,” a 2002 military operation carried out with extradited crime lord “Don Berna.”
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-war-crimes-tribunal-pulling-corpses-out-of-medellins-closet/
