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HRW blasts Colombian govt over rights activists' murders
Issued on: 10/02/2021 - 21:58
2 min
Bogota (AFP)
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday hit out at Colombia's government over the rising number of human rights defenders and activists being murdered in the South American country.
Since the 2016 peace accord that ended half a century of fighting between government forces and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an increasing number of civil society leaders have been killed each year.
But "the government has acted slowly and weakly in the implementation of policies to prevent these murders," HRW said in a statement.
Despite Colombia suffering the largest number of such murders on the continent, "the government's response has been more focussed on making speeches and announcements than adopting measures tha will have an impact in the territories" affected by the violence, said Jose Miguel Vivanco, HRW director for the Americas.
More:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210210-hrw-blasts-colombian-govt-over-rights-activists-murders
Very bad country fo good people. Vicious history. Very few very rich small community controlling the desperate masses, bleeding the country dry.