The Justice and Peace Law of Colombia or Law 975 of 2005

Narrating the Conflict [Report published on 2012]

The Falsos positivos [2008- ]

Statement by Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions Mission to Colombia 8-18 June 2009

Right: El escpectador 28 May 2011

Medias discourse and Collective Memory

Falsos Positivos Modus Operandi (Alston, Gonzalez)

I.

The victim is selected and lured under false pretenses by a recruiter from a specific location to a remote location. II. The individual is killed soon after arrival by members of the military. III. The victim is commonly photographed wearing a guerrilla uniform, and holding a gun or grenade. IV. Killers are rewarded for the results against the guerillas. V. Victims are often buried anonymously in communal graves or bodies are disappeared to avoid families to claim their rights.

Modus Operandi I - Selection

Falsos Positivos
Low income young men are selected on the outskirts of Bogot and then lure using a steady job. The victim accepts voluntarily walks towards his own dead. Language is used by murders to create the illusion that world can be better. Fiction is at work. Victims have expressed their desire to [keep ahead] salir adelante and mobilized themselves in society through legal means. Young men became a target because the stigma they do all for money.

Novel
Low income young woman is selected on the outskirts of Perdomo and then lure using a relationship. The victim accepts voluntarily walks towards her own dead. Language is used by murders to create the illusion that world can be better. Fiction is at work. Victim has expressed her desire to [progress] progresar and mobilized herself in society through legal means. Young women became a target because the stigma they engaged in relationship for money. Juana Maria is judge as [bitch] zorra because of her mother stories. Perdomo has always whisper about her sexuality and her physical appearance. She has fire within her legs.

Modus Operandi II - Killing

Falsos Positivos
They went out for work and ended up dead.

Novel
She went out for love and ended up dead. Juana Maria is lure by the son of Narcedalia who pretend to be interested in her. He lure her by taking her to a restaurant and then to a hotel. Perdomo believes she is playing with both father and son. Each killer shot twice. None of them knows for sure who kill her. She died without understanding, without being aware

Modus Operandi III Mass Media

Falsos Positivos
Prejudice is used to easily reinforce and reproduce the plot in mass media. Officials including the president repeat the same version. Soldier confesses after his father is killed. Boots, grenades, uniforms were used in the scene. Pictures are printed.

Novel
Prejudice is used to easily reinforce and reproduce the plot in mass media. Officials repeat the same version. Nobody provides information. Juana Marias dead body is seen by the all residents. They said: We dont know her. Files, drugs, and cash were found in the scene [previously planted]. Pictures are printed.

Modus Operandi IV Rewards

Falsos Positivos
Soldiers received rewards.

Novel
Narcedalia keep her family and expands her new business building an airport. The major gives to her a recognition for improving the local economy.

Modus Operandi IV Rewards

Falsos Positivos
Bodies are given to families.

Novel
Narrator says Juana Maria became a bag of bones. Metaphorically, her body has been emptied of meaning implying a need to be filled by perpetrators. Juana Maria lacks even of a single killer forcing the case to be unsolved. Her father is the only screaming at the scene she was not a criminal. Nobody believes in his words.