Colombia's attorney general has charged seven soldiers in the shooting deaths of five members of a peasant family, including a six-month-old baby.
The soldiers claimed they shot the family in 2004 because they mistook them for leftist rebels. But a forensic investigation concluded the soldiers deliberately killed the peasants at close range - not from from more than 45 feet away as the soldiers had claimed.
The soldiers, who were arrested in 2005, say they ordered the civilians to surrender and opened fire when they started to run away.
President Alvaro Uribe first backed the military's claim that heavy fog caused poor visibility before the shooting.
The case has been closely watched by Colombians, and focused attention on brutal methods used by the military in its pursuit of armed insurgents who have been trying to overthrow the government for four decades.
The conflict kills more than 3,000 people every year, many of them civilians.
AP