Neo-paramilitaries, not guerrillas are Colombia’s primary human rights violators: Report

Source: Colombia Reports

Neo-paramilitaries, not guerrillas are Colombia’s primary human rights violators: Report
Posted by Claire Dennis on Nov 6, 2015

Groups formed from the AUC while the paramilitary group was demobilizing between 2003 and 2006 have taken over their predecessors’ position as the primary violators of human rights now in Colombia, according to the government.

The report, published by the National Center of Historic Memory (CNMH), is a part of a study called “Paramilitary demobilization and reintegration. Post-agreement scenario with the AUC”, which was distributed by the institution in Bogota and gives an overview of the situation of former paramilitaries in Colombia.

The report stresses that between 2008 and 2010 bloody disputes in different regions of the country were born between gangs after the end of the AUC, causing authorities to consider it only a “partial demobilization of paramilitaries.”

The AUC successor groups include the Urabeños, led by former paramilitary “Otoniel,” considered the most powerful drug trafficking organization in Colombia at the moment.

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/neo-paramilitaries-not-guerrillas-are-colombias-primary-human-rights-violators-report/