Journalists, NGOs receive death threat
A number of Colombian human rights organizations and journalists received a death threat from neo-paramilitary group “Aguilas Negras,” W Radio reported Friday. An email was circulated on Thursday, signed by…
A number of Colombian human rights organizations and journalists received a death threat from neo-paramilitary group “Aguilas Negras,” W Radio reported Friday. An email was circulated on Thursday, signed by…
The Colombian government will not negotiate with neo-paramilitary or drug gangs about the surrender of these groups, Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras said Thursday. In an interview with W Radio,…
Under the provisions of a new decree Colombia’s government will not offer pardons to guerrillas who have committed crimes against humanity, according to a government press release issued Monday. In…
Colombian authorities have no idea of the whereabouts of some 5,000 former paramilitary fighters who were part of the massive demobilization of the AUC, newspaper El Tiempo reported on Sunday.…
Colombia’s government said Tuesday that 2,381 members of Colombian guerrilla groups deserted their ranks in 2010. According to the Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized (PAHD), 2,009 of these…
Colombia’s National Reparation and Reconciliation Commission announces that 15.5% of 55,000 former members of illegal armed groups have rearmed. This means that more than 8,500 former paramilitaries and guerrillas have…
Colombia’s Congress on Wednesday approved “in record time” a bill that seeks to end the judicial limbo of thousands of demobilized paramilitary fighters. The government, confronted with the Constitutional Court’s…
A bill to resolve the status of demobilized paramilitaries, who were left in legal limbo after the Constitutional Court overturned a law protecting them from prosecution, will be passed by…
An independent “Truth Commission” will study the cases of 17,0000 demobilized paramilitaries after Colombia’s constitutional court sank the suspension of prosecution of the former AUC members, newspaper El Tiempo reported…