Colombia’s post-AUC paramilitaries left more than 320,000 victims to date
Colombia’s post-AUC paramilitaries left more than 320,000 victims to date
written by Stephen Gill April 29, 2016
Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups left more than 320,000 victims since their parent organization, the AUC, formally demobilized its last block in 2006, according to the government’s Victims Unit.
The Victims Unit’confirmed that 332,149 people have registered as victims of what the government calls “BaCrim” in an attempt to disassociate groups like “Los Urabeños” from the AUC, a designated terrorist group.
Colombia’s latest generation of paramilitary groups have continued the displacement practices of small farmers, and the widespread threatening and killing, among others, those trying to reclaim their lands or rights activists.
”Official figures show that 322,504 people have been victims of forced displacement. 42,784 of threats come from these criminal organizations, 559 suffered sexual violence, 560 forced disappearances, 8,194 murders, 305 kidnappings, 147 of torture, 82 juveniles have been recruited by these groups and 49 people were dispossessed of their lands,” according to the report.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombias-neo-paramilitaries-already-left-320000-victims/
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141432441
