JEP sentencia a 20 años de cárcel a excoronel por falsos positivos
El Tribunal para la Paz de la Jep impuso la condena de 20 años de prisión al coronel retirado Publio Hernán Mejía Gutiérrez, luego de que se demostrara su responsabilidad en 35 hechos criminales que dejaron 72 personas asesinadas y algunas desapariciones forzadas, en el norte de Cesar y el sur de la Guajira, entre los años 2002 y 2003.
TL;DR
- Retired Colonel Publio Hernán Mejía Gutiérrez sentenced to 20 years by the JEP for 72 murders and forced disappearances.
- Crimes occurred between 2002-2003 in Cesar and La Guajira, linked to the Batallón La Popa and AUC paramilitaries.
- The JEP proved an 'Illegal Apparatus of Power' operated through an alliance with the AUC's 'Mártires del Cesar' front.
- Crimes involved presenting paramilitary victims as combat deaths and using paramilitary intelligence to target victims.
- Victims were primarily peasants, indigenous, Afro-descendants, and vulnerable youth.
- The sentence includes revoking Mejía's decorations and ordering a public apology in Valledupar.
- The JEP also ordered the search and identification of missing persons and the investigation of other high-ranking officers and military justice officials.
- Previous convictions against Mejía in ordinary justice were nullified in favor of this single JEP sentence.