The National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences identified the 11 bodies left by the military operation that took place in the rural area of Puerto Leguízamo (Putumayo), last Monday, March 28.
Among the bodies to which he performed a medico-legal necropsy, there are 10 older men, a woman and a teenager.
Eight of the bodies were handed over to their relatives or to persons authorized by the competent authorities.
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The director in charge of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Jorge Arturo Jiménez Pájaro, responded in this way to Senator Iván Cepeda, who had requested precise information on the causes of death of the 11 people, including a younger, the president of the Community Action Board and an Indigenous governor.
Jiménez Pájaro responded to Cepeda that the detailed report on the causes of death of the victims, it is only supplied to judicial authorities.
“Regarding the cause of death, this information is part of the expert reports that once issued are delivered to the judicial authorities in charge of the proceedings of each case; therefore, said information may be required before the competent authorities”, point out sections of the response of Legal Medicine to the Congressman.
It should be remembered that the National Army reported in recent days that a strong blow was dealt to the FARC dissidents in Putumayo, in the midst of the combats that would have occurred against structure 48, who commits a crime in that region of Colombia.
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However, relatives of the victims and human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz), They described the deaths of the 11 people as a massacre.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office investigations are underway to determine what happened in that operation.