A Colombian court has begun proceedings to exclude a former paramilitary boss from judicial benefits he was granted when demobilizing a decade ago. The Prosecutor General’s Office said Monday that…
Colombia’s justice minister said on Tuesday that legislation regulating the demobilization of tens of thousands of paramilitary fighters last decade has failed to achieve its intended goal of securing truth,…
Colombian congressmen want to forward approved peace legislation to the United States to assure Washington that FARC members guilty of crimes against humanity will not be granted immunity in the…
Nearly 5,000 FARC members and over 8,000 neo-paramilitaries have been captured by Colombia’s armed forces over the past two years, according to a report released by the Colombian Ministry of…
Colombia’s defense ministry on Thursday said that in 2013 the number of desertions from rebel groups like the FARC and ELN increased 18.4%.
The vast majority of deserted or demobilized former members of Colombia’s guerrilla and paramilitary groups are satisfied with government attempt to reintegrate them, the state agency responsible for reintegration said.
Colombia’s government said Wednesday that in the event of a demobilization of rebel groups FARC and ELN, between 20,000 and 25,000 members could demobilize.
A possible amnesty for FARC guerrillas would violate Colombia’s commitments to international law, said a former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Bogota on Wednesday.
Colombia’s Prosecutor General on Wednesday formally accused former peace commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo of falsifying reports of the demobilization of a bloc of rebel group FARC in 2006.