A/HRC/13/72
(h)
On 2 June, the Third Penal Court of Montería (Córdoba) sentenced a major, a
captain and four soldiers of Army GAULA of Monteria to 28 years of imprisonment for the
extrajudicial execution of two youths. Their defence included false accusations against the
female prosecutor in charge of the case of bribing a witness to testify against the members
of the army.
Sexual violence
The cases below exemplify how girls and women are exposed to the sexual violence
generated by all parties to the conflict, as well as by illegal armed groups which emerged
after the demobilization of paramilitary organizations:
(a)
In August, OHCHR-Colombia received information that criminal gangs,
“combos” (small criminal groups of youth) and unidentified illegal armed groups were
recruiting and using children from Communes 5, 6 and 7 of Medellín (Antioquia), for
prostitution and sexual slavery activities, drug dealing and collection of extortions
payments. It was reported that members of the National Police had a permissive attitude
vis-à-vis these activities;
(b)
On 16 August, in Puerto Caicedo (Putumayo), a 15-year-old girl was raped,
and received death threats if she denounced the abuse. The abuse was allegedly committed
by a demobilized paramilitary member, who is currently a member of the illegal armed
group “Los Rastrojos”;
(c)
In Puerto Asís (Putumayo), it was reported that in May members of the
illegal armed group “Los Rastrojos” offered money to girls at their schools to convince
them to engage in prostitution activities;
(d)
In March, in Riosucio (Chocó), it was reported that the commander of the
police station was allegedly responsible for the sexual abuse of two girls, aged 8 and 10;
(e)
On 14 June, in the Tercer Milenio park of Bogotá, a junior police officer
allegedly raped a displaced girl while other junior officers videotaped the rape;
(f)
On 11 August, a 5-year-old Nukak girl from the El Refugio indigenous
territory in San José del Guaviare (Guaviare) was sexually assaulted, allegedly by a soldier
from the Joaquín París Army Battalion. Four other girls from the same indigenous
communities, aged between 13 and 17, were said to have suffered similar assaults and to
have been subjected to sexual exploitation by soldiers from the same army battalion;
(g)
In March, in Yondó (Antioquia), two 15-year-old girls were allegedly raped
by a soldier from the Calibío Army Battalion. The solider was also accused of having
detained the two girls for several hours and injured them;
(h)
In March, in the rural area of Casabianca (Tolima), a woman was raped and
subjected to other acts of sexual violence, reportedly by members of FARC-EP. In addition,
the woman and her children received threats warning they would be killed if the case was
reported;
(i)
In accordance with the statement of a girl who had been recruited by FARCEP, it was reported that the 18th Front of FARC-EP forced pregnant young girl members of
the group to abort;
(j)
In Cauca, through information reported by the health centre in 2009, it was
charged that a girl recruited by FARC-EP was forced to use contraceptive measures.
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