Colombia investigating 100,000 ‘FARC crimes’
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating approximately 100 thousand criminal charges made against the FARC, the country’s largest guerrilla group that is currently engaged in peace talks.
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating approximately 100 thousand criminal charges made against the FARC, the country’s largest guerrilla group that is currently engaged in peace talks.
A recently closed transitional justice deal between the government and FARC rebels will not adequately punish perpetrators of war crimes committed during the country’s armed conflict, according to Human Right Watch.
Colombia’s peace talks are stuck on the subject of justice as both the FARC and the government fear the legal consequences of the tens of thousands of war crimes committed…
Colombian rebel group FARC said on Monday it is waiting for government safety protocols to release soldiers younger than 15 from their ranks.
Nicaragua has possibly given the leadership of Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC either citizenship or political asylum, which would shield them from international and US justice, Spanish newspaper El Economista reported Wednesday.
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, has denied accusations it publicly displayed the amputated leg of a soldier near a high school.
The deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Wednesday that his court would be “flexible” in dealing with FARC crimes, provided that war crimes are adequately punished.
Violations of international humanitarian law in Colombia increased by an alarming 41% in 2014, according to a Red Cross report.
The FARC’s persistence in rejecting jail time for rebels accused of atrocities has resulted in fierce criticism from both the government and the NGO Human Rights Watch.