Uribe abandons Colombia war victim memorial service amid victims booing
Uribe abandons Colombia war victim memorial service amid victims’ booing
written by Adriaan Alsema April 10, 2017
Former President Alvaro Uribe walked out of a commemorative service for the 8 million victims of Colombia’s armed conflict on Sunday after victims criticized the politician accused of multiple war crimes.
Uribe, both a victim and accused of multiple war crimes, was initially one of the few congressmen who attended the memorial service.
In spite of the country going through a peace process, more than half of congress simply refused to pay respect to the victims on National Victims Day.
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However, the service went from bad to worse after the intervention of the daughter of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, the Liberal Party leader whose 1948 assassination sparked a decade of extreme partisan violence.
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http://colombiareports.com/uribe-abandons-colombia-war-victim-memorial-service-amid-victims-booing/
