“We are obligated to also denounce that there is a group of lawyers paid by international organizations, with ideological slants that hamper an impartial examination of the conducts and the mandamus, and they do it with hate and ideological tendencies. A group of lawyers with the task of making false charges against our Armed Forces”

Cartagena, May 8 (SP). President Uribe denounced that there is a group of lawyers hired by international organizations to discredit the Colombian Armed Forces and the Democratic Security policy.

“We are obligated to also denounce that there is a group of lawyers paid by international organizations, with ideological slants that hamper an impartial examination of the conducts and the mandamus, and they do it with hate and ideological tendencies. A group of lawyers with the task of making false charges against our Armed Forces”, he pointed.

The Head of State made that statement this Friday at a videoconference ‘Cátedra Centenario’ as part of his participation in the International Meeting of Schools of Military Studies Directors, framed in the celebration of the 100 anniversary of the Superior School of War of Colombia.

The leader said that as well as the Armed Forces and the Government denounces a number of cases of human right violations of some institutions of the country, they also must show the false accusations made by some international and national groups.

“We are aware of 85 cases of accusations of human rights’ violations that have been returned by ordinary justice to Military Justice, because ordinary justice did not find merits. There are now some which precluded, rulings of non imprisonment, and non guilty rulings”.

“Just as we had to denounce, sanction violations of human rights, see how our men were took to jail, without showing any intentions to run away, just to be interrogated; in the same way, we have to take on, with no fear, the defense of our men and institutions against false accusations”, he added.

President Álvaro Uribe affirmed that all this cases of violation of human rights have been acknowledged with no ambiguities in the ordinary justice.