UN warns Colombia’s military justice reform may harm human rights record
UN warns Colombia’s military justice reform may harm human rights record
posted by Hannah Mead
Jun 12, 2013
The United Nations has urged Colombia’s Congress to make changes to a pending military justice reform to “avoid serious damage” to the country’s international commitment to the protection of human rights, local media reported Tuesday.
Via a seven-page document, the international organization demands changes regarding the judicial process for an estimated 4,000 cases of extrajudicial killings of civilians also known as “false positives.”
The first proposal states that false positive cases should not be retrospective, meaning that they “must be investigated and judged according to the law in force at the time of the court case,” rather than according to the norms at the time of the crime.
Secondly, the UN advise that false positive prosecutions should not take place in a military court, but by “competent entities” within Colombia’s judicial system.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/un-demands-change-for-false-positive-investigations/
