CARACOL RADIO, August 25, 2020
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(Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN Volunteer Translator)
According to figures from the Defense Ministry and the Police, there have been more than 285 violent events with these characteristics.
Caracol Radio has seen the report stored by the Defense Ministry and the Police on the massacres in this country, defined as being four homicides.
The Police began maintaining these statistics around the end of 2003-2004, according to sources in the agency, and the consolidated reports that Caracol Radio had access to are in the magazine “Police Crime Statistics”, as follows:
Álvaro Uribe government
For the year 2005, 48 massacres were registered, resulting in 252 deaths; year 2006, 37 massacres, 193 deaths; year 2007, 26 massacres, 128 deaths; 2008, 37 massacres, 169 deaths; 2009, 29 massacres, 147 deaths.
The consolidated data indicated that for the periods mentioned there were 177 massacres in the country, resulting in 889 deaths.
Juan Manuel Santos government
Year 2010, 39 massacres, 183 deaths; year 2011, 37 massacres, 171 deaths; 2012, 33 massacres, 104 deaths; year 2013, 24 massacres, 104 deaths; 2014, 9 massacres, 44 deaths; 2015, 13 massacres, 54 deaths; 2016, 9 massacres, 38 deaths; 2017, 13 massacres, 61 deaths.
Iván Duque government
For the current administration, the figures are as follows: 2019, 22 massacres, 114 deaths; 2020, 18 massacres, 91 deaths.
According to Police sources, cases where there are four or more killings at the same place, the same time, and the same killer or killers are catalogued as “collective homicides” (massacres).