Colombia Has Most Disappeared in All of Latin America: Report
Colombia Has Most Disappeared in All of Latin America: Report
A group of women take part in a demonstration against enforced disappearance and
in support of the victims in the Plaza Bolivar, Bogota, Colombia, May 29, 2009. | Photo: EFE
Published 20 November 2016
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Over the span of 45 years a stunning 60,630 people were forcibly disappeared in Colombia, dramatically outpacing figures from other countries in the region, exceeding even those that endured bloody military dictatorships, a new study from Colombia's National Center for Historical Memory revealed.
The 423-page report, titled, “Until We Find Them,” is the product of a lengthy investigation involving interviews with experts, human rights defenders, and victims of forced disappearances.
The staggering figure, which accounts for the years 1970 to 2015, translates into three people disappeared per day. During the height of the phenomenon, between the years 1996 and 2005, a person was disappeared every 2-and-half hours.
The National Center for Historical Memory, which published the report said forced disappearances took a sinister dimension in Colombia, becoming a tool of not just the state acting clandestinely against its opponents, but also other armed groups — most extensively paramilitary groups — with ties to the state.
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