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Judi Lynn

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Tue Sep 27, 2016, 09:12 PM Sep 2016

Colombia peace deal seeks to ‘put me in prison’: Uribe

Source: Colombia Reports

Colombia peace deal seeks to ‘put me in prison’: Uribe

written by Adriaan Alsema September 27, 2016



Colombia’s former President on Monday claiming that a peace deal signed with FARC rebels will “surrender the country” to the disarming guerrillas “with the purpose of putting me in jail.”

. . .

The Inspector General’s Office has the authority to investigate his role in the extrajudicial killings and convict him over his political responsibility of Colombia’s biggest human rights scandal in recent history.

The recently suspended Inspector General, an ally of Uribe, has refused to do so.

Additionally, Uribe could be sanctioned for allowing the paramilitary infiltration in Colombia’s political system that flourished after he took office. When taking office, Uribe personally appointed a number of top officials who were later convicted for colluding with paramilitary death squads either to kill union leaders or traffic drugs to the United States.


Read more: http://colombiareports.com/colombia-peace-deal-seeks-put-prison-uribe/

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