Colombia's ruling party wants to end state cooperation with war crimes tribunal
Source: Colombia Reports
by Adriaan Alsema August 19, 2018
Colombia’s ruling party of President Ivan Duque asked Congress to end all state cooperation with a war crimes tribunal, a truth commission and even the missing persons search unit that are part of an ongoing peace process.
The request comes weeks before the leader of Duque’s Democratic Center party, former President Alvaro Uribe, is expected to appear in court to defend claims he tried to coerce witnesses who claim he and his brother formed death squads in the 1990s.
The latest attempt of the “uribistas” to prevent the investigation into the deaths of 215,000 civilians and 80,000 missing persons is to prohibit investigators to request or receive state any documents deemed sensitive.
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Uribe and many of the “uribistas” have long resisted the peace process, and particularly the transitional justice system that will investigate thousands of war crimes committed by the state while Uribe and his clan were in power between 2002 and 2010.
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