Ex-governor behind paramilitary massacre: Prosecutor General .
Ex-governor behind paramilitary massacre: Prosecutor General .
Thursday, 21 February 2013 10:48 Olle Ohlsen Pettersson
A former governor has been accused of masterminding a paramilitary massacre of 12 civilians in northern Colombia.
The former governor of the northern Colombian department of Sucre, Miguel Nule Amin, was supposedly "the intellectual author" of the Macayepo massacre where "at least" 12 peasants were murdered and hundreds more were displaced in the neighboring department of Bolivar. According to the conflict-monitoring website, Verdad Abierta, a judge from the Prosecutor General's Human Rights Unit accused Nule Amin of orchestrating the atrocity.
The massacre occurred on October 16, 2000 when 80 men from the paramilitary coalition AUC's "Heroes of Montes de Maria Bloc" descended upon the Carmen de Bolivar area and started killing unarmed civilians. Afterwards, hundreds of people were forced to flee the region. According to Verdad Abierta, the AUC committed the massacre to gain territorial control over the region. According to a report from the Colombian Air Force, the paramilitaries killed the civilians with "sticks, machetes and stones."
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Although the Nule Amin has previously been absolved of the crime of murder and forced displacement in relation to Macayepo, the prosecutor said recent confessions by ex-paramilitaries Salvatore Mancuso, Enrique Banquez and Yairsiño Meza justified reopening the case.
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