Colombia's military justice system, in 2025, has entered the fourth phase of implementation. It is changing from an investigatory to an accusatory system. Members of the military who have committed crimes while in active service will be investigated and judged in a similar fashion and will the guarantees of the ordinary justice system. A similar transformation has occurred in the ordinary justice system as the first adversarial trial began in late 2024 in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) the judicial arm of Colombia's transitional justice system stemming from the 2016 peace deal with the former Revolutionary Armed forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla against Colonel Hernan Mejia Gutierrez. Colonel Mejia is charged with being involved in 72 extrajudicial executions between 2002 and 2003 in the scandal known as "false positives." That trial is still ongoing.
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