A Colombian justice minister on Friday, said he wants to use the Inter-American System for human rights’ Victim’s Law, to pay reparations to all victims of armed conflict in the country.
At a court hearing in the country’s second largest city, Medellin, Vice Minister of Justice Miguel Samper Strouss, voiced his support of the Victims Law which could force a $11,500 pay out to as many as 250,000 victims.
The Inter-American Court has already condemned the Colombian state in 13 cases of which the country has been ordered to pay $87,500 in compensation of which they payed only $13,100.
The government’s approach has been to oppose any cuts in their faculties. The country’s President Miguel Santos has commented on Twitter about the reparations using an article published by Colombia’a Empty Chair news.
La Silla Vacía reconoce esfuerzo del Gobierno por reparar a las víctimas y hacer de Colombia un país justo
— Juan Manuel Santos (@JuanManSantos) March 28, 2013
“The Empty Chair recognizes the Government’s efforts to compensate the victims and make Colombia a just country.”
In the article it further claimed that not everything is perfect and progress still needs to be made.
Sources
- “Ley de Víctimas debería ser la base para reparaciones ordenadas por el Sistema Interamericano para Colombia” Viceministro Miguel Samper
- Colombia quiere que Corte Interamericana use topes de Ley de Victimas
- Miguel Santos
- Chibolo, el caso de mostrar de la restitucion de tierras