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Colombian SOA Graduate Arrested for His Participation in Massacre
23 May 2009, by
A preventive measure of detention was issued against the former commander of the Palacé Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Alberto Amor Páez, by the specialized human rights prosecutor in the city of Calí, Juan Carlos Oliveros Corrales. This warrant confirmed Amor Páez’s participation in the massacre of 24 peasant farmers, which took place in the rural communities of Alaska, Tres Esquinas and La Habana, in the municipality of Buga in the department of Valle del Cauca, on October 10, 2001.
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IACHR meets privately with the ACIN to follow up on the case of the ‘El Nilo’ massacre
28 October 2008, by
With the framework of a work meeting convened yesterday by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to follow up on the IACHR ruling concerning the ‘El Nilo’ Massacre, the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca (ACIN by its initials in the Spanish language) and the Jose Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective elaborated several requests for the Colombian State, including an action to review the decisions adopted in military criminal jurisdiction, progress in implicating the intellectual authors of the ‘El Nilo’ massacre, support for the life plans of the communities to resolve part of the unsatisfied basic needs of the communities, and compliance with the ‘El Nilo’ Agreements.
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