On the death of an unidentified dismissed and disqualified for 20 years members of the security forces

The Attorney General's Office by court ruling, dismissed and disqualified for 20 years to three members of the National Army Artillery Battalion attached to nro.4 "Colonel Jorge Eduardo Sánchez Rodríguez," Company Fuse 6 - by the death of a unidentified citizen of events occurring in 2005 in the village of Los Vallejuelos, municipality of San Carlos (Antioquia).

These soldiers Daladier Ochoa Ramirez, Diego Lopez and Jhon Jairo Velasquez Guarín Giraldo.

The soldiers were found responsible for incurring serious disciplinary violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) by attacking civilians, attacking life and physical integrity of an unidentified person.

The patrol report states that the unidentified victim was coming down a road, "was not hiding in the bushes, not in the first instance attacked the troops from a point that protected, not in group", which allows for that by the time of death of this citizen was not driving activities that could be preached that he was a fighter illegal armed group.

Consequently, members of the army involved in the act violated the principle of international humanitarian law to distinguish between the civilian population for some reason is in conflict zone and a fighter who develops or hostilities, because, at that time, not directly involved in the conflict and therefore was protected by IHL.

It also established that those who killed the unidentified citizen were the members of the Army, who so informed the competent authorities, which fall under the disciplinary offense classified as a very serious offense.