Colombia fiercely rejects UN's crushing human rights report
by Adriaan Alsema February 28, 2020
As expected, Colombias President Ivan Duque on Thursday fiercely rejected the United Nations latest assessment of human rights in the country, calling the report an intrusion of sovereignty.
The president and the Foreign Ministry went full speed against the crushing report that confirmed military collusion with illegal armed groups, police brutality and the governments failure to implement peace policies.
The government stood isolated though. Influential peace organization Defendamos la Paz said we share the concerns of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in a response to Duque tirade.
The report confirmed the Duque administrations widespread human rights violations in attempts to violently suppress student and anti-government protests last year, ties between the military and illegal armed groups, and the governments failures to implement a 2016 peace deal with demobilized FARC rebels.
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