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This was the last major public hearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Colombia. On May 10 in Soacha, three retired soldiers listened to 13 women tell them about the unbearable and permanent pain of losing their son or brother. The ex-soldiers admitted their responsibility in the "false positives" scandal, extrajudicial executions carried out by the army between 2002 and 2008 to inflate the figures of guerrilla fatalities.
Bogota, Apr 9 (EFE).- Colombians on Friday remembered people who had suffered one or the other form of political violence in the country’s troubled past, even as uncertainty grows over new conflicts affecting the country’s most remote and impoverished regions. On the National Day of Memory and Solidarity with Victims of Armed Conflict, people who …
By Ricardo Maldonado Rozo Cartagena, Colombia, Jan 28 (EFE).- The president of Colombia’s Truth Commission on Friday analyzed the excessive violence unleashed during the country’s armed conflict and wondered “how it is possible to have come to so much suffering.” Speaking to journalist Maria Jimena Duzan during the second day of the Hay Festival in …
The implementation of what has been agreed between the Colombian state and the former FARC guerrillas is taking a winding, bumpy and uneven path that is