{"id":44484,"date":"2020-06-04T07:56:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T05:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html"},"modified":"2020-06-04T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T05:56:35","slug":"the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html","title":{"rendered":"The Colombian transitional justice\u2019s paramilitary dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Colombia\u2019s transitional justice has a seemingly clear mission, to prosecute former members of the FARC and of the military who committed war crimes during the 52-year-long conflict. But another party keeps popping up every now and then, giving the Special Jurisdiction for Peace recurring headaches: the paramilitaries.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In theory, right-wing paramilitaries are excluded from the transitional justice system stemming from the peace deal signed by the Colombian government and the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016, because they were already subjected to another transitional justice mechanism a decade ago. But reality is fuzzier and, as two headline-grabbing cases in mid-May have shown, the special tribunal \u2013 or JEP, as it is locally known \u2013 still has to solve the dilemma of what to do with dozens of politicians and other civilians who aided the paramilitaries and have not faced justice.<\/p>\n<h3>Two contested decisions<\/h3>\n<p>In May, after the Inspector General\u2019s Office lodged an appeal, JEP justices had to reconsider their acceptance of a powerful former senator who claimed the country\u2019s second-highest vote tally in the 2014 legislative elections and was later arrested on corruption charges. Musa Besaile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elespectador.com\/noticias\/judicial\/cartel-de-la-toga-lo-que-dijo-musa-besaile-en-el-juicio-contra-el-exmagistrado-ricaurte-articulo-900637\">confessed<\/a> to paying a prosecutor a 500,000-dollar bribe in a bid to stall a criminal inquiry against him over negotiating political support from the paramilitaries two decades ago. In January, the special tribunal decided to accept him \u2013 as a non-military state actor who promised to acknowledge his role in serious crimes and who already admitted meeting with powerful paramilitary boss Salvatore Mancuso between 2002 and 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia\u2019s main institution in charge of government oversight objected to this decision, arguing that the corruption scheme by which Besaile funded his bribe \u2013 which involved fake haemophilia patients \u2013 had no relation to the armed conflict and was planned years before it was doled out. In the end, the JEP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jep.gov.co\/Sala-de-Prensa\/Paginas\/Secci%C3%B3n-de-Apelaci%C3%B3n-de-la-JEP-confirma-parcialmente-el-sometimiento-del-exsenador-Musa-Besaile-Fayad.aspx\">decided<\/a> to accept him over his links to the paramilitaries but exclude the bribery inquiry, which will be tried in the ordinary criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>One day later, another contentious case came to light. The Supreme Court objected a JEP decision, setting up the first major clash of jurisdictions for the transitional justice system so far. The high court, which over the past decade convicted 60 former national lawmakers over political alliances with the paramilitaries, protested against the JEP\u2019s decision to accept one of the most notorious politicians involved in that same major scandal known by Colombians as \u2018parapolitics\u2019: Salvador Arana, a former state governor and diplomat, under investigation for diverting public funds to the paramilitaries. He had already been handed down two convictions, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elespectador.com\/noticias\/judicial\/corte-suprema-dejo-firme-condena-contra-salvador-arana-articulo-661088\">40-year sentence<\/a> for ordering the murder of a local mayor who had publicly accused him of being in cahoots with the paramilitaries.<\/p>\n<p>In a heavily-worded statement, the Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cortesuprema.gov.co\/corte\/index.php\/2020\/05\/14\/corte-suprema-advierte-riesgos-de-fraude-a-justicia-transicional-de-la-jep\/\">argued<\/a> that Arana should not be considered as a state actor, but rather an active combatant - a \u201cpure paramilitary\u201d in its words \u2013 and that it should retain jurisdiction over his case. The JEP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jep.gov.co\/Sala-de-Prensa\/Paginas\/Comunicado-de-la-JEP-frente-al-sometimiento-de-Salvador-Arana-Sus.aspx\">contends<\/a> that Arana\u2019s crimes were committed while he was a public official and that the transitional justice supersedes other jurisdictions regarding crimes linked to the armed conflict. Their clash must now be resolved by the Constitutional Court, the country\u2019s top court.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the end, the dilemma exists because Colombia has set up several transitional justice mechanisms in the past, but with porous and overlapping borders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>What to do with the paramilitaries?<\/h3>\n<p>Both cases show the complexity of decisions regarding the paramilitary, originally born to counter left-wing guerrillas in the 1980s and eventually responsible for thousands of homicides and massacres. In the end, the dilemma exists because Colombia has set up several transitional justice mechanisms in the past, but with porous and overlapping borders.<\/p>\n<p>More than 35.000 members of Colombia\u2019s right-wing paramilitary groups demobilised between 2003 and 2007, under former President \u00c1lvaro Uribe\u2019s administration. At the time, the Colombian Congress objected to the government\u2019s original bill that in practice granted them blanket pardons, significantly upgrading it and recognising victims\u2019 rights to truth, justice, redress and non-recurrence for the first time. The result was a transitional justice special court, dubbed Justice and Peace, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contraloria.gov.co\/contraloria\/sala-de-prensa\/boletines-de-prensa\/boletines-prensa-2017\/-\/asset_publisher\/Jl4Sa8JTmjbW\/content\/tras-10-anos-de-la-ley-de-justicia-y-paz-y-11-billones-invertidos-tan-solo-se-han-condenado-195-postulados-e\">convicted<\/a> 195 former paramilitaries over a decade. Its hearings allowed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reporte-estadistico-GRUBE-2020-04-30.pdf\">exhumation<\/a> of the remains of more than 7.500 of their victims and <a href=\"en\/truth-commissions\/44027-political-tussle-over-truth-and-memory-in-colombia.html\">helped researchers<\/a> shed light on hundreds of human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>One major grey area persisted though. This transitional justice mechanism prosecuted active combatants of the former United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) and other paramilitary groups, who were responsible for over 18.000 murders, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centrodememoriahistorica.gov.co\/micrositios\/balances-jep\/paramilitarismo.html\">according<\/a> to the National Centre for Historical Memory. But, given that entry conditions were restricted to those who had been in arms and then demobilised, it fell short of identifying or prosecuting other persons who aided or abetted them.<\/p>\n<p>A few years later, the Supreme Court began filling in those gaps, opening criminal inquiries into politicians who \u2013 like Arana - benefitted from their armed support, eliminating political rivals or coercing citizens to vote for them. Most of their financiers and collaborators, however, remained unidentified, which is why the 2016 peace accord paved the way for members of the military and civilians who colluded with them to be prosecuted as either state agents or \u2018third party actors\u2019. The Constitutional Court overruled this in part, barring the JEP from actively seeking third parties, but allowing them to voluntarily seek admission.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"boorder: 1px solid #ccc;\"><div class=\"articleLink articleLink--editorRecommanded articleLink--textInImage articleLink--textTop\" style=\"\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"articleLinkSurTitle\">Recommended reading<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"articleLinkImageLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44027-political-tussle-over-truth-and-memory-in-colombia.html\"><div class=\"articleLinkImageContainer \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/12f6c6ad7965b62b9162689b896ccce6-540x360.jpg\" class=\"articleLinkImage backgroundImageTag w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/div><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44027-political-tussle-over-truth-and-memory-in-colombia.html\" class=\"articleLinkTitle articleLinkTitle--default\">\r\n\t\t\tPolitical tussle over truth and memory in Colombia\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Scores of civilian requests<\/h3>\n<p>The possibility of obtaining more lenient sanctions has meant that the JEP ended up facing a barrage of admission requests from dozens of former paramilitaries, politicians and public officials, many of whom are seeking better deals or a revision of their case. Some have done so while still insisting on their innocence and refusing to shed light on human rights violations, even though the JEP\u2019s non-prison sanctions <a href=\"en\/reparations\/43487-what-penalties-colombia-justice-challenge-2020.html\">are conditional<\/a> to defendants acknowledging their responsibility, telling the truth, and personally helping redress victims.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal has routinely denied former paramilitary bosses, although it did open the door for them to acknowledge other crimes committed either before or after they were active combatants. But civilians\u2019 cases have proven more complex.<\/p>\n<p>Many politicians investigated, but not yet convicted, for their dealings with the paramilitaries have sought acceptance into the JEP. So have a number of persons investigated for crimes with no evident link to the armed conflict, including high-profile names such as former minister Sabas Pretelt, convicted of bribing lawmakers to ensure a favourable vote that would have allowed former President Uribe to run for an unprecedented third period in 2010. Or former C\u00facuta mayor Ramiro Su\u00e1rez Corzo, who was convicted for the murder of the state comptroller and whose acceptance into the transitional justice was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asuntoslegales.com.co\/actualidad\/procuraduria-se-opone-a-que-exalcalde-de-cucuta-ramiro-suarez-corzo-ingrese-a-la-jep-2873542\">questioned<\/a> by the Inspector General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the JEP is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jep.gov.co\/Infografas\/cifras-mayo-29.pdf\">assessing<\/a> the admission of 175 civilian state agents and of 766 non-state agents who aided and abetted illegal armed groups. So far, 13 civilians have been admitted. Besides, the JEP is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jep.gov.co\/Infografas\/cifras-mayo-29.pdf\">currently studying<\/a> the legal situation of 9.787 former FARC rebels and 2.680 military and policemen involved in serious crimes such as extrajudicial executions.<\/p>\n<h3>A litmus test for civilians<\/h3>\n<p>Paving the way for non-armed actors to benefit from the peace accord meant that the special tribunal had to design a way to gauge their commitment to redress victims and tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p>This need materialized when David Char, a little known former senator investigated for his links to the paramilitaries, was denied admission to the transitional justice and successfully appealed. Justices sitting on the appeals section not only reversed the original decision and accepted Char in April 2018, but also wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jep.gov.co\/Sala-de-Prensa\/Documents\/Auto%20TP-SA%2019%20de%202018%20-%20En%20el%20asunto%20de%20David%20Char%20Navas.pdf\">interpretative ruling<\/a> laying down a procedure for all civilians. Since then, defendants must submit a proposed programme detailing specific contributions to redress, truth and non-recurrence, including a timeline and budget.<\/p>\n<p>Char <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jep.gov.co\/Sala-de-Prensa\/Paginas\/A-esto-se-comprometi%C3%B3-David-Char-Navas-ante-la-JEP.aspx\">vowed<\/a> to fund a 159,000-dollar agricultural project and local school benefitting victims, to detail crimes committed by the paramilitaries in his region and to never run for office again. He has proven a compliant defendant so far, giving lengthy statements to the JEP and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alertacaribe.com\/noticias\/atlantico\/ex-congresista-david-char-inicio-talleres-de-paz-para-reparar-victimas-en-el\">participating<\/a> in spaces with victims. The Truth Commission also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elespectador.com\/noticias\/judicial\/version-de-david-char-es-fiable-suficiente-y-valida-comision-de-la-verdad-articulo-908777\">certified<\/a> that his extrajudicial contributions had been deemed valuable and were corroborated by other witnesses. Another former lawmaker, \u00c1lvaro Ashton, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jep.gov.co\/Sala-de-Prensa\/Paginas\/Estos-son-los-compromisos-con-la-verdad-que-hizo-%C3%81lvaro-Ashton-ante-la-JEP.aspx\">offered<\/a> 60,000 dollars in scholarships for victims and psychological support programmes in two towns.<\/p>\n<p>Not only the JEP has had to grapple with the question of how much it should continue probing the role of paramilitaries in Colombia\u2019s history of violence. As Justice Info <a href=\"en\/truth-commissions\/44027-political-tussle-over-truth-and-memory-in-colombia.html\">told<\/a>, under current President Iv\u00e1n Duque, the National Centre for Historical Memory decided to stop funding investigations on violations committed by them, a decision that sparked outrage among many academics and universities.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia\u2019s attempts to close its armed conflict by chapters mean its current transitional justice system will continue facing contentious questions into which defendants that aided and abetted paramilitary groups it decides to admit, while at the same time it advances in its core mission of prosecuting former FARC rebels and military who committed serious crimes. In practice, the question is whether the JEP can succeed in uncovering the roles played not only by direct perpetrators, but also by civilians in the concentric rings around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia\u2019s transitional justice has a seemingly clear mission, to prosecute former members of the FARC and of the military who committed war crimes during the 52-year-long conflict. But another party keeps popping up every now and then, giving the Special Jurisdiction for Peace recurring headaches: the paramilitaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":63870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[],"ji_location":[2177],"class_list":["post-44484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-tribunals","ji_location-colombia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Colombian transitional justice\u2019s paramilitary dilemma - JusticeInfo.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Colombian transitional justice\u2019s paramilitary dilemma\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Colombia\u2019s transitional justice has a seemingly clear mission, to prosecute former members of the FARC and of the military who committed war crimes during the 52-year-long conflict. But another party keeps popping up every now and then, giving the Special Jurisdiction for Peace recurring headaches: the paramilitaries.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"JusticeInfo.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-04T05:56:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/978381b32a35d0d8b11b830e2721bee3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andr\u00e9s Berm\u00fadez Li\u00e9vano\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bermudezlievano\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@justiceinfonet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Andr\u00e9s Berm\u00fadez Li\u00e9vano\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Andr\u00e9s Berm\u00fadez Li\u00e9vano\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c18ea792350557b20c68f8d655e3ea21\"},\"headline\":\"The Colombian transitional justice\u2019s paramilitary dilemma\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-04T05:56:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html\"},\"wordCount\":1530,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/978381b32a35d0d8b11b830e2721bee3.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"National tribunals\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html\",\"name\":\"The Colombian transitional justice\u2019s paramilitary dilemma - JusticeInfo.net\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/978381b32a35d0d8b11b830e2721bee3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-04T05:56:35+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/978381b32a35d0d8b11b830e2721bee3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/978381b32a35d0d8b11b830e2721bee3.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Colombian transitional justice\u2019s paramilitary dilemma\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/\",\"name\":\"JusticeInfo.net\",\"description\":\"For justice to be done, it must be seen\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Justice Info\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png\",\"width\":1199,\"height\":1200,\"caption\":\"Justice Info\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/justiceinfonet\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/justice-info\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCyCEsARodyuWtkWyhn-e7pA\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Andr\u00e9s Berm\u00fadez Li\u00e9vano\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/bermudezlievano\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/auteur\/alievano\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Colombian transitional justice\u2019s paramilitary dilemma - JusticeInfo.net","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Colombian transitional justice\u2019s paramilitary dilemma","og_description":"Colombia\u2019s transitional justice has a seemingly clear mission, to prosecute former members of the FARC and of the military who committed war crimes during the 52-year-long conflict. But another party keeps popping up every now and then, giving the Special Jurisdiction for Peace recurring headaches: the paramilitaries.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html","og_site_name":"JusticeInfo.net","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/","article_published_time":"2020-06-04T05:56:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/978381b32a35d0d8b11b830e2721bee3.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Andr\u00e9s Berm\u00fadez Li\u00e9vano","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@bermudezlievano","twitter_site":"@justiceinfonet","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Andr\u00e9s Berm\u00fadez Li\u00e9vano","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html"},"author":{"name":"Andr\u00e9s Berm\u00fadez Li\u00e9vano","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c18ea792350557b20c68f8d655e3ea21"},"headline":"The Colombian transitional justice\u2019s paramilitary dilemma","datePublished":"2020-06-04T05:56:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html"},"wordCount":1530,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/978381b32a35d0d8b11b830e2721bee3.jpg","articleSection":["National tribunals"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html","name":"The Colombian transitional justice\u2019s paramilitary dilemma - JusticeInfo.net","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/978381b32a35d0d8b11b830e2721bee3.jpg","datePublished":"2020-06-04T05:56:35+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/978381b32a35d0d8b11b830e2721bee3.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/978381b32a35d0d8b11b830e2721bee3.jpg","width":1200,"height":800},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44484-the-colombian-transitional-justice-paramilitary-dilemma.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Colombian transitional justice\u2019s paramilitary dilemma"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/","name":"JusticeInfo.net","description":"For justice to be done, it must be seen","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization","name":"Justice Info","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png","width":1199,"height":1200,"caption":"Justice Info"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/","https:\/\/x.com\/justiceinfonet","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/justice-info","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCyCEsARodyuWtkWyhn-e7pA"]},{"@type":"Person","name":"Andr\u00e9s Berm\u00fadez Li\u00e9vano","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/bermudezlievano"],"url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/auteur\/alievano"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44484"},{"taxonomy":"ji_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ji_location?post=44484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}