If Uribe goes down, Santos goes down too: Colombia’s peace talks opponents
Source: Colombia Reports
If Uribe goes down, Santos goes down too: Colombia’s peace talks opponents
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Sep 30, 2015
Colombia’s prosecutor general on Tuesday invoked a political storm after stating former President Alvaro Uribe could be called to appear at the post-war tribunal over ongoing accusations he collided with paramilitary death squads.
So far, Colombian politicians and media have carefully ignored mentioning the elephant in the room; the fact that both former President Alvaro Uribe and current President Juan Manuel Santos are implicated in some of the most gruesome war crimes in the country’s history.
After Prosecutor General Eduardo Montealegre said that Uribe, a staunch opponent of Colombia’s ongoing peace talks, could be tried for his alleged complicity in paramilitary war crimes carried out while he was governor, political allies of the hard-line politician warned Santos that he would also have to appear before court for the killing of thousands of innocent civilians by the military when Santos was serving as Uribe’s defense minister.
Neither leader can be tried for war crimes allegedly committed while they were in office by the transitional justice tribunal. Colombia’s constitution allows only Congress to investigate alleged presidential crimes.
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