Forced disappearances
More than 150,000 people were disappeared during Colombia’s half-a-century armed conflict, according to the National Victims Registry. More than half of them are still missing. The number of forcibly disappeared…
More than 150,000 people were disappeared during Colombia’s half-a-century armed conflict, according to the National Victims Registry. More than half of them are still missing. The number of forcibly disappeared…
Increased military and paramilitary activity in the northeast Colombia has worsened the situation of the locals who were already terrorized by guerrillas, according to human rights defenders. The coca-rich region…
Colombia’s so-called “false positives” scandal is centered around the extrajudicial killings of thousands of civilians by the military that dressed their victims as guerrillas to present them as combat kills…
Colombia’s far-right ruling party wants military war criminals who are also accused of drug trafficking to be shielded from extradition to the United States, newspaper El Tiempo reported Thursday. The…
Politicians, businessmen and state officials who want to evade prison for war crimes committed during Colombia’s armed conflict have three months to report themselves or lose the possibility for judicial…
President Ivan Duque signed off on a bill defining the powers of Colombia’s war crimes tribunal on Thursday after months of resistance. The coming into force of the statutory law…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque suffered a major defeat on Wednesday when the Constitutional Court agreed with Congress to reject his objections to the country’s war crimes tribunal. The president said…
Colombia’s security forces are allegedly intimidating and threatening members who try to talk to media or the country’s war crimes tribunal about military war crimes. Last week, local media and…
The term parapolitics is used to describe the ties between paramilitary organizations like the now-demobilized AUC, and state officials in Colombia. Opposition Senator Gustavo Petro has been denouncing ties between…