Seven Colombian soldiers have been charged in the rape of a 13-year-old Indigenous girl. Thirteen years old.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/world/americas/colombia-indigenous-girl-rape.html?smid=tw-share …
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The girl, a member of the Embera community, is a student who had been living with her mother and many siblings in the department of Risaralda.
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A spokeswoman, Col. Sandra Garcia, said the military would not be providing lawyers for the men, as the charges had “no relation to their work as soldiers.”
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The allegations come as the Colombian military is attempting to regain the country’s trust after decades of civil conflict in which soldiers were frequently accused of abuse.
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Colombians are very familiar with the "false positives" scandal, in which soldiers often killed civilians and claimed they were guerrilla fighters, according to extensive investigation.
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Those killings spurred widespread domestic and international condemnation. But last year, Colombian generals and colonels were told to sign a written pledge to step up attacks, a tactic that officers said appeared to be a return to the strategy of the past.
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Which is part of why this ugly case feels even uglier.
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