Colombia Investigates Former President over Paramilitary Massacres
Prosecutors say Uribe faces questioning over alleged ties to paramilitary massacres and the 1998 killing of a rights activist.
- On Thursday, Colombia's Attorney General opened an investigation into former President Alvaro Uribe for alleged crimes linked to a paramilitary group, two massacres, and the murder of a human rights defender.
- Paramilitaries, funded by landowners and merchants to counter leftist guerrillas, are estimated by a truth commission to be responsible for nearly half of more than 450,000 deaths in Colombia's conflict.
- Uribe alleged ties between Senator Ivan Cepeda and the prosecutor, stating "This is a clear case of political pressure and injustice" while his lawyers named four sites of paramilitary massacres for questioning.
- Colombians vote Sunday in a presidential runoff pitting Senator Ivan Cepeda against right-wing lawyer Abelardo De La Espriella, who has Uribe's backing and vowed a tough approach to rebel groups.
- Uribe was convicted last year for fraud and bribery in a legal saga over alleged witness tampering that could have resulted in 12 years of house arrest.
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Just 48 hours after the presidential elections, the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office announced the opening of a new investigation against former President Alvaro Uribe Vélez. A movement that Uribe described as “an injustice of clear political pressure” at one point in the polls gave left-wing candidate Ivan Cepeda a loser. The Prosecutor’s Office summoned the former president to the inquest to clarify his alleged responsibility for forming paramili…
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Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) said Thursday that the Prosecutor's Office called him to investigate the investigations carried out by that body into the massacres of La Granja and El Aro, perpetrated 30 years ago in the department of Antioquia (northwest) by paramilitaries.
Justice also investigates the ex-mandatario for his alleged responsibility for the murder of human rights defender Jesús María Valle and for the formation of a paramilitary group in the municipality of San Roque
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