Colombia militiaman gets 8 years for killing 4,000
Terrorism • December 2010 • Views: 810
Here is an abuse of an amnesty program if ever there was. Amnesty should be used for troops, not leadership.
A former paramilitary commander in Colombia known as the “Iguana,” who ordered the killing of more than 4,000 people, was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison under an amnesty program, justice officials said.
Jorge Ivan Laverde admitted to directly killing a hundred people and ordering the killings of 4,000 others as a commander in the extreme rightwing AUC militia, which was disbanded in 2003.