Damages due in agents’ deaths
In a ruling hailed as a landmark by human rights advocates, the Colombian government has been ordered to pay damages in a 1989 massacre of state investigators by army-backed militias.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered more than $5 million in damages to be paid to relatives of 12 investigators killed by right-wing paramilitaries in the northern hamlet of La Rochela.
The decision, which cannot be appealed, marks the first time the state has been found guilty of involvement in the murder of its own agents.
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