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C. On September 3, 2007, the Penal Circuit Court in Marinilla sentenced three Army
soldiers (indicted February 20, 2007) to 16 years and 8 months in prison for homicide
of a protected person for their involvement in the murder of a man in the hamlet of La
Chapa in El Peñol (Antioquia) on April 10, 2004. (Prosecutor General‘s Office
Number 2231)
(10) Army Soldier Jhonatian Ortíz Suaza
(11) Army Soldier Jhon Jairo Cuervo Rodríguez
(12) Army Second Corporal Dairo Francisco Mendoza Torres
D. On October 8, 2007, the (13) Army Corporal Leonardo Montoya Rubiano was
sentenced to 480 months (40 years) in prison by the 3 rd Specialized Penal Circuit
Court in Villavicencio (Meta). (Description of case not available) (Prosecutor
General‘s Office Case Number 748)
E. On March 14, 2008, the 2 nd Specialized Judge in Antioquia sentenced five soldiers
from the Army‘s 4 th Engineering Battalion (indicted January 11, 2007) to 34 years in
prison for homicide and torture of a protected person for their involvement in the
murder of Juan de Jesús Rendón and threatening with death of his 13-year-old
daughter on April 23, 2004, in the hamlet of Arenillal in Sonsón (Antioquia).
(Prosecutor General‘s Case Number 2050)
(14) Army Professional Soldier Fred Alexander Cañaveral Ramírez
(15) Army Professional Soldier Elkin Edilson Orrego Palacio
(16) Army Professional Soldier Carlos Andrés Ladino Monroy
(17) Army Professional Soldier Yovanni Presiga Tangarife
(18) Army Second Sergeant Elmer Torres Rodríguez
F. On March 31, 2008, the Second Penal Specialized Circuit Court in Cundinamarca
sentenced (19) Army Sergeant Harold Willian Pejendino (indicted January 5, 2007)
from the 28 th Air Transport Infantry Battalion to 480 months in prison (40 years) for
aggravated homicide, aggravated criminal conspiracy, forced disappearance, simple
kidnapping, and forced displacement. Between March and May 2003, he – and
several other members of his unit (trial proceeding against them) – collaborated with
the United Self-Defense Forces of Casanare in the homicide of civilians that the
paramilitary group believed to be guerilla sympathizers. (Prosecutor General‘s Office
Case Number 1765)
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