Colombia clashes with OAS over damning human rights report
by Adriaan Alsema July 8, 2021
Colombia’s increasingly authoritarian President Ivan Duque rejected a damning report by the Organization of American States (OAS) over the violent repression of peaceful protests.
In its report, the OAS’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) blasted the government’s excessive use of force, which left dozens dead and an unknown number of people missing sin April 28.
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The president ignored the fact that Colombia suffered an armed conflict since 1964 that killed at least 265,000 people and left between 80,000 and 200,000 people missing.
Duque’s far-right Democratic Center party has categorically denied Colombia’s armed conflict, claiming that the deadly violence was due to a “terrorist threat.”
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