Inter-American Court of Human Rights concludes state allowed extermination of 6,000 Patriotic Union party members in 1980s
Instead the Colombian state allowed the UP rank and file as well as elected politicians to be picked off with impunity and even used its own forces in the political genocide, the regional rights tribunal found.
The tribunal also condemned successive Colombian governments for failing to investigate the thousands of cases of forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions and torture used to stamp out the movement. The extermination of the UP is symbolic of Colombia’s cyclical history in which a succession of leftist leaders have raised hopes of reform only to be killed before they can effect change.
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