#Colombia’s transitional justice is beginning to crack open its first explosive revelations, including long-unsolved crimes like the murder of Conservative leader Álvaro Gómez H. Immediate reactions reveal deep cleavages in peace process implementation https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten"> @ICGlatam @CrisisGroup
If allowed to function, transitional justice offers to clarify some of the mysteries of #Colombia’s conflict, revealing the strange, perverse, even obsessive logic that drove violence. These revelations will be challenging, as the first cases already indicate. 2/
Gómez H’s murder, in 1995 in front of a university in Bogotá, was never solved. Just one alleged material author was tried; he has always maintained his innocence. The logic behind the crime remained in a fog of war even 1/4 century after the fact. 4/ https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-54428892">https://www.bbc.com/mundo/not...
Members of Gómez H’s family have long blamed then-President Ernesto Samper for the murder, allegedly in coordination with Cali Cartel. Gómez had called for Samper’s resignation over alleged narco- campaign financing. Samper welcomed the FARC’s confession6/ https://twitter.com/ernestosamperp/status/1312461072360595456">https://twitter.com/ernestosa...
Yet so far, this is how the transitional justice mechanism was intended to operate. While only @JEP_Colombia can impute charges, @FiscaliaCol can and should also investigate grave crimes to provide the maximum clarity for victims. 10/ https://www.coljuristas.org/observatorio_jep/documentos/documento.php?id=150">https://www.coljuristas.org/observato...
A call from @ComisionadoPaz asking @JEP_Colombia to consider removing the FARC members from Senate is more worrisome. Transitional justice is predicated on trading truth/laying down arms for political participation. 11/ https://twitter.com/ComisionadoPaz/status/1313897219662254081">https://twitter.com/Comisiona...
From what we know thus far, @PartidoFARC is complying with the accord rather than breaking it. These confessions, and others likely to follow, offer a real chance toward reconciliation, which is impossible without difficult truths sitting squarely on the table. end
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