At least 33 companies made money through land dispossession in Colombia: report
Source: Colombia Reports
by Mimi Yagoub December 11, 2018
A series of reports submitted to Colombia’s transitional justice body spotlight the scale on which multinationals and other companies took advantage of the armed conflict.
The Forjando Futuros Foundation submitted two reports to Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), one of which shows how so far 33 businesses have been ordered by to return land or suspend their mining rights in nine Colombian departments by the court.
Getting rich through violence
The convicted businesses bought or gained concessions to land that had belonged to people displaced by the armed conflict in what is popularly has become known as “para-economics.”
The report delivered to Colombia’s new transitional justice institution explains how the victims were forced out of their home by massacres, fighting between groups, homicides, and kidnappings in which the victims were forced to give up their land.
Read more: https://colombiareports.com/33-companies-made-money-through-land-dispossession-in-colombia-report/