UN calls on Colombia to resist granting amnesty to FARC

[Bacchus4.0]

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/peace-talks/28611-un-calls-on-colombia-to-resist-granting-amnesty-to-farc.html

The United Nations Human Rights Office on Wednesday called on Colombia to resist granting amnesty to rebels of the FARC, the country's largest rebel groups and currently engaged in peace talks.

Navi Pillay, the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the U.N., made the request as part of the annual report on Colombia, presented before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.

The report declares that “as opposed to avoiding addressing past violations through amnesties and other forms of impunity, which simply violate human rights obligations, the past should be used to positively transform Colombia” whilst reiterating the U.N.’s stance on violations; namely upholding accountability, reparations, justice, punishment and the completion of sentences for human rights violators.

A delegation from Colombia said that the peace talks are being carried out “with the objective of definitively ending the conflict” between the government and left wing rebel group FARC, adding that 53,319 paramilitary and guerrilla fighters have been demobilized and that over 150 thousand victims received compensation in 2012 under a law designed to provide compensation for victims of Colombia's nearly 50-year-old armed conflict.

[idwiyo]

1. Maybe it's a good idea for all outsiders to keep the fuck out of Colombia and let THEM decide

How best to deal with their internal affairs. If this will end 50 years of war, its. Tester to have an amnesty.