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Colombia to pay reparations for role in systemic violence against leftwing party

Colombia to pay reparations for role in systemic violence against leftwing party

Inter-American Court of Human Rights concludes state allowed extermination of 6,000 Patriotic Union party members in 1980sColombia has pledged to pay reparations to victims after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) concluded the state allowed the systematic extermination of the leftwing Patriotic Union (UP) party in the 1980s and 90s.The UP was a political party created out of a peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) guerrillas in 1985 but 6,000 of its members were wiped out by rightwing paramilitaries, narcos and the Colombian military.

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