A Prosecutor for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law has brought charges against two FARC members for his alleged responsibility as accessory to the kidnapping and murder of a councilman in El Hobo (Huila).
The investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office emerges from the facts happened on April 28, 2005, when the councilman Douglas Hernan Bautista Torres was kidnapped by an insurgent command in the said municipality.
A police patrol which began the pursuit of the kidnappers was ambushed, two officers were killed and two others were injured. The subversives stole the soldiers’ weapons and later shot the councilman Bautista Torres dead. In the development of such action, an individual who was also injured, died days later.
According to the ruling issued by the Examining Prosecutor (Law 600), the defendants Herminson Moreno, alias Pestañas (eyelashes) and Diego Fernando Rincón, alias Pecas (Freckles) were accused of having supposedly committed murder of a protected person, aggravated murder and attempt of aggravated murder, aggravated theft and rebellion.