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In his column in El Espectador, Yohir Ákerman refers to a document from last January 20, to which that newspaper had already referred in an article from April 14, and which narrates – according to the columnist – “Ten elements that demonstrate that Army victims for false positives were carefully chosen and selected for certain traits.”
This is a report that, according to Ákerman, was presented to the JEP by the José Alvear Restrepo Collective (CAJAR) and the Committee of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, after these organizations heard 40 versions of 32 former members of the La Popa Battalion where they are reviewed “146 victims who were allegedly extrajudicially executed between 2002 and 2005”.
“The selection criteria for deaths”, says the journalist in his opinion piece, It included “things as simple as being undocumented, having a background, being a minor or low-income, like waste pickers and street dwellers.”
In that “selection”, continues the columnist, he included indigenous people, people reported to be guerrillas or demobilized, disabled and LGBTI community.
And regarding the latter, the opinioner emphasizes the testimony delivered by a military man on December 7, 2007 in Valledupar, who “He confessed that they executed a young man who approached them to speak, simply because he looked” like gay. “ The objective, what a novelty, was to present him later as a guerrilla killed in combat ”.
But Ákerman goes further and even relates these events to the investigation that Semana magazine published on May 1 and in which he points to the aforementioned group of lawyers among the organizations that would have been illegally followed by members of the Army.
According to the communicator, “The Army was profiling, spying and sucking” on the CAJAR “to know the defense strategy of the victims of false positives.”
But also, in his column, Ákerman insists on the question of “Who or who have been the recipients of this illegal information” and, immediately afterwards, draws attention to the “Close” friendship between senator María Fernanda Cabal and her husband, José Félix Lafaurie, with colonel Publio Hernán Mejía Gutiérrez, who was commander of the aforementioned battalion when the aforementioned false positives occurred.
Finally, the journalist remembers that former President Álvaro Uribe expressed, at the time, his support for Colonel Mejía for the book he wrote in 2016 from prison, where the military man is serving a 19-year prison sentence for alliances with paramilitarism.
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