Colombia suffering "endemic impunity" for mass killing of social leaders: UN

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema May 12, 2019

The United Nations urged Colombia to make a “significant effort” to end the “endemic impunity” enjoyed by those behind the mass killing of the country’s social leaders.

A press release by the United Nations’ Office for human rights OHCHR on Friday is a proverbial slap in the face of Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez who praised “the efficiency of justice” in Colombia last month.

The chief prosecutor, who has been submerged in corruption allegations, also claimed his office’s results in the investigations of attacks on human rights defenders and social leaders were “unprecedented in the history of criminal investigations in Colombia.”

But according to OHCHR spokesman Rupert Colville, the Prosecutor General’s Office has yet to make a “significant effort” to tackle the “endemic impunity” enjoyed by those who are sowing terror in Colombia, particularly on the countryside.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/un-urges-colombia-to-make-significant-effort-to-end-endemic-impunity-for-mass-killing-of-social-leaders/