The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) had charged them along with General Mario Montoya, who asked to annul the accusation against them. Colonel (r) Iván Darío Pineda had also been charged, but he did not accept charges.
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While General (r) Mario Montoya asked to annul the accusation made against him last August by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) for 130 crimes against humanity that occurred between 2002 and 2003 in eastern Antioquia, seven of his then men did accept their responsibility in these events. Colonel (r) Iván Darío Pineda did not accept charges either.
At the time, the JEP explained that the phenomenon of false positives was deployed by members of the Army who acted as if they belonged to a criminal organization. In this way, the starting point was the pressure for combat casualties demanded by General (r) Montoya. The theory of the case maintains that, at least at this point, the deaths requested and allowed by Montoya occurred in 16 municipalities of Antioquia.
The only indicator of military success, according to research, was casualties. And that hypothesis is supported by stories so atrocious that they speak for themselves. Like the presentation at a press conference as guerrillas of the IX FARC Front of two girls and three young civilians in 2002, in the municipality of San Rafael. They had fallen into a military ambush against a vehicle driven by paramilitaries. And, although they clearly had nothing to do with the war, “General Montoya insisted and personally presented the bodies of the boys at the press conference as guerrillas killed in combat,” Judge Díaz noted last August.
In this context, the soldiers who accepted their responsibility as perpetrators of war crimes: homicide of a protected person and forced disappearance, are second lieutenants (r) José Alejandro Ramírez Riaño, Diego Germán Guzmán Patiño, and Edwin Leonardo Toro Ramírez, the lieutenant colonels (r) Emerson Antonio Castañeda Morales and Nelson Enrique Carvajal Chisco and soldier Óscar Iván Mayo Marulanda (a former ELN guerrilla who, after his demobilization, ended up in the ranks of the Army). For his part, Colonel (r) Iván Darío Pineda Recuero said that he did not accept responsibility for the accusations made by the Chamber and General (r) Mario Montoya requested the annulment of the process.
