A Colombian Army Black Hawk helicopter flies over an area where a FARC guerrillas attack took place in Cali, Colombia, in April 2015 AFP/LUIS ROBAYOBOGOTA: Colombia's military carried out at least 6,400 extrajudicial killings and presented them as combat deaths between 2002 and 2008, a number significantly higher than previously estimated, a special court said Thursday .
Although the military high command has always denied there was a systematic policy of declaring"false positives," some soldiers and officials have told the court that they were put under pressure by superiors to inflate the success of their military operations against rebels. Those who confess responsibility and compensate the victims can avoid prison time, but those who don't face up to 20 years in jail.It said most of the killings took place in the northwestern Antioquia department where soldiers and right-wing paramilitaries fought with left-wing rebels.
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