The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) showed his concern for the increase in violence in Colombia in the framework of the electoral campaign for the presidential Sunday May 29 and called on the Colombian State to guarantee the security measures.
“Calls on the State to increase its efforts aimed at transforming the causes on which the activities of the armed groups are based, in particular, implement in a practical and effective manner the actions foreseen” in the Peace Agreement”, stated the IACHR.
The body dependent on the OAS warned about the human rights violations that occurred during the Armed Strike decreed by the Gulf Clan after the extradition of Dairo Antonio Usuga, alias ‘Otoniel’, who led the group until October when he was captured.
In its statement, the IACHR warned of the particular impacts of the escalation of violence “in rural Afro-descendant, peasant and indigenous communities”.
“The IACHR expresses its alarm over the acts of violence recorded in the context of the electoral campaign for the presidential elections in the country. In this framework, it makes a special call to the State to redouble actions aimed at providing security guarantees in the development of electoral campaigns”, can be read in the statement.
Concern about “false positives”
The IACHR had already released another statement this week linked to the convulsive Colombian political reality. On Wednesday the 18th he announced that he will investigate the Colombian State for the Delay in prosecuting soldiers responsible for extrajudicial executionsknown as “false positives” of three young people, in the Yopal region.
The international organization points out that, after 17 years, the process initiated by the death of the young people “remains unfinished and suspended, without a trial or determination of a just punishment against all those responsible, much less investigated the possible masterminds of the crime within the military and civilian chain of command.”
The IACHR warns that “no sentence has been reported against the material or intellectual authors” of these extrajudicial executions, according to Radio Caracol.
The bodies of the young men were reported by the soldiers as “three criminals who were on their way to commit the crime of kidnapping against the owner of a farm”. The corpses showed signs of torture, in addition to the entry and exit holes of the bullets.
According to the complaints, the person in charge of recruiting victims, known by the alias “Gilmer”, convinced the young people to accompany him to collect a debt and that for that they had to wear camouflaged uniforms.
