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Uribe bashes Colombias war crimes tribunal in district victimized under his watch written by Adriaa
written by Adriaan Alsema October 3, 2017
Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe celebrated sinking a peace deal with FARC rebels in the Medellin district that successfully sued the state for war crimes committed under his watch.
The former president took the stage in Medellin’s Comuna 13, where security forces and paramilitary fighters carried out an offensive against leftist militias in “Operation Orion” months after Uribe was elected president.
Local authorities recently embarked on a new mission to locate victims who were disappeared during and after the (para)military operation.
And now it turns out that the bad guy is me. Those corrupt allies of [President Juan Manuel] Santos who panic facing terrorism, who never fought it, they say that it was a paramilitary operation. This [district] was full of paramilitaries and guerrillas they never fought and now they come to look for mass graves to put me in jail.
Alvaro Uribe
More:
https://colombiareports.com/uribe-bashes-colombias-war-crimes-tribunal-district-victimized-watch/
