BOGOTA (Reuters) -A special Colombian court created under a 2016 peace deal on Thursday sentenced twelve former military commanders to up to eight years of reparations work for their role in the extrajudicial executions of 135 people.
The sentences were the first given to former members of the military by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), which is trying leaders from both the FARC rebels and the military for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
(Reporting by Julia Symmes Cobb)
