Is Colombia cooking the books on mass killing of former paramilitaries?
Is Colombia cooking the books on mass killing of former paramilitaries?
by Adriaan Alsema July 26, 2019
Colombia’s government on Thursday said that 2,202 former members of now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC were assassinated. Last year, this number was 3,656.
The numbers were released while the government of President Ivan Duque is under pressure over a similar wave of killings former FARC guerrillas, who demobilized in 2017 and fear they await the same fate as their former enemies.
Despite the fact that these killings and those of social leaders are being considered the biggest threat to peace in Colombia, Duque has gone out of his way to to prevent the alleged masterminds of these homicides to be called to justice.
The cooking of the books on homicides appears to be his latest trick.
Did Duque cook the latest numbers?
The report of the National Reintegration and Normalization Agency (ARN) covers the assassination of demobilized AUC combatants since 2003 when the first of approximately 31,000 people joined the demobilization program of Duque’s political patron and alleged war criminal, former president Alvaro Uribe.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/is-colombia-cooking-the-books-to-conceal-the-mass-killing-of-former-paramilitaries/