Thus, the international organization “urges the State to take immediate and urgent measures to guarantee and protect the work of the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition” after the “serious events” that have transpired and that ” they put at risk the rights to integrity and life of those who make up the Commission and the right of the victims to the truth.”
UN Human Rights calls for an “effective investigation, the clarification of the facts denounced by the Commission, the determination of those responsible and the protection of its officials and the information they collect in the development of their mandate.”
“The Commission has a fundamental role in satisfying the rights of victims, in particular the right to truthwhich is why their autonomy and independence are essential,” the agency concluded.
On Saturday, the defense of ‘Otoniel’ requested to benefit from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) agreed under the peace agreement between the Government and the guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016.
The request of the lawyers of ‘Otoniel’ was presented on February 13 and includes the argument that the drug trafficker leader collaborated in criminal actions in alliance with members of the Army and the extinct Security Administrative Department (DAS), reports the Colombian press. A) Yes, ‘Otoniel’ presents himself as “a third-party collaborator of the Armed Forces and promoter and financier of paramilitary groups.”
‘Otoniel’ was arrested at the end of last October in Colombia and has already given a statement before the JEP at the request of the victims of the armed conflict in Urabá, although he has so far refused to give names of soldiers who would have links with armed organizations .
Source: Ambito
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