Truth commission to investigate Operation Condor (Transitional Justice in Brazil)
Colombia
Document Friday: The Mapiripán Massacre “Cover-up” (Unredacted, the National Security Archive)
The Colombian military falsely blamed a junior officer for complicity in a 1997 paramilitary massacre “as part an effort to confuse and cover up the responsibility of others,” according to a 2003 State Department letter.
Guatemala
Guatemala frees ex-colonel who killed campaigning bishop (Guardian)
Byron Disrael Lima Estrada was in jail for killing of Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi, who wrote report on civil war crimes by army
Peru
Peru's anti-riot tactics unmatched in lethality (AP)
Since 2006, bullets fired by
Peruvian security forces to quell protests have killed 80 people and
wounded more than 800, according to the independent National Coordinator
for Human Rights watchdog.[...]
"These
numbers would be a scandal abroad. And I'm not talking about a
comparison with Europe, but with Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, where there
are protests but not so many deaths," said Jorge Mansilla, investigator
for Peru's national ombudsman's office.
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