COLOMBIA: PRESIDENT ALVARO URIBE ATTACKS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS, OFFERS LENIENCY TO PARAMILITARIES.

From: NotiSur - South American Political and EconomicAffairs | Date: September 26, 2003 | Copyright information

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who has high public support of about 65%, has clashed with national and international human rights groups in recent weeks. First he sent a bill to Congress that would effectively grant impunity to paramilitary fighters. He then attacked human rights organizations, implying that they were mouthpieces or worse for the leftist rebels.

Human rights groups like Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) hold the paramilitary groups responsible for the majority of serious human rights abuses in Colombia's civil war. The Comision ...

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