COLOMBIA WATCH-Another case of Army killing civilian and presenting him as a guerrilla http://www.justiceforcolombia.org/news/article/1427/another-case-of-army-killing-civilian-and-presenting-him-as-a-guerrilla

A seventeen year old boy has been killed by Army troops before being falsely referred to as a guerrilla killed in combat. The Colombian Army has been responsible for killing more than 5,000 civilians in this way in a practice that is known in Colombia as ‘false-positives’. This latest killing comes after a new report found that the Armed Forces had killed twelve civilians in 2012 who were later presented as guerrillas. The Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos refuses to recognise that the practice continues as part of attempts to cleanse the image of Colombia’s Armed Forces.Anison Cardoso Florez was out hunting a Guagua – a typical Colombian animal – with his brother when he was shot dead on 4 June 2013 by the troops from the Batallion Energetico #5 from the Municipality of Bagre in Antioquia. His brother managed to escape. Claims that the young peasant farmer was a guerrilla were immediately ridiculed by those who knew him as Anison was an active member of his community and the local rural organisation AHERAMIGUA and he had rarely spent any time away from his village.This latest killing has confirmed what Colombian human rights organisations have been reporting on repeated occasions: that the Army practice of ‘false-positives’ continues