When paramilitary umbrella organization AUC demobilized between 2003 and 2006, their demobilization benefited numerous unaffiliated drug traffickers. Demobilized former FARC guerrillas are now helping to prevent a repetition in their…
Colombia’s now-demobilized FARC guerrillas used several NGOs to help compose the demobilization list that proved to contain unaffiliated criminals in order to allow them to obtain judicial leniency as part of…
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) met with her Colombian counterpart and the president on Monday to inquire about ongoing war crime investigations. On her first day…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating suspicions that demobilized paramilitary commanders bribed the transitional justice system that was supposed to try their crimes, newspaper El Tiempo reported. According to the…
Colombia’s Marxist inspired FARC has included a former head of a network of assassins as a “peace manager” in the ongoing process with the government, having triggered his release from…
The FARC has surrendered a 135-page document detailing the demobilized guerrilla group’s assets, but the government has so far failed to reveal the value of these illegally obtained assets. Without…
Colombia’s transitional justice system has receives more than 2,000 applications of law experts who hope to be appointed to fill one of the 51 posts in the war crimes tribunal…
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will visit Colombia in September to hear about progress made in war crime investigations against the country’s military chief and dozens…
Colombia’s transitional justice system has received the case files of 12,000 alleged military war criminals, the transitional justice body announced on Tuesday. According to the justice system’s executive secretary, some…