Colombia ex-army chief will be charged over extrajudicial killings

FILE PHOTO: Former commander of the Colombian Army General Mario Montoya attends a hearing at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) court in Bogota, Colombia, September 13, 2018. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's attorney general's office will charge former army commander General Mario Montoya for responsibility of 104 extrajudicial executions, as part of the "false positives" scandal, it said on Sunday.

The false positives took place between 2002 and 2008, during the term of ex-President Alvaro Uribe, when soldiers murdered civilians and registered them as guerrilla fighters killed in combat to receive benefits.