MINIMUM PROPOSALS ON TRUTH, JUSTICE, REPARATION AND GUARANTEES OF NON RECURRENCE

MOVEMENT OF VICTIMS AND HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF COLOMBIA

[March 6, 2013]

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MINIMUM PROPOSALS ON TRUTH, JUSTICE, REPARATION AND GUARANTEES OF NON RECURRENCE

Published on Feb 10, 2014

Orlando Vaca Melo

Amnesty International has estimated that in Colombia, between 1986 and late 1993, 20.000 people have been killed for political reasons, most of them at the hands of the Armed Forces and their allied paramilitary groups. In the last decade, President Alvaro Uribe Velez’s administration promoted the practice of extrajudicial executions misnamed ‘false positives’ from within the top government and the Military, so much so that the Colombian office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights estimated in 2012 that “the Attorney General’s office has accumulated complaints, including those relating to 4716 victims of killings allegedly committed by members of the security forces, many of which correspond to the type of executions known as false positives”

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