If you do not clarify what has happened, you will not be able to know what are the structures of these armed illegal groups, what their weapons have been, what their properties or assets have been. Therefore you will not be able to verify adequately if they have been dismantled.. If there still are weapons out there.
Michael Fruhling
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As the law is written there are really no strong consequences if a perpetrator does not come forward and is later discovered to not have told the whole truth. It would be good to put in place adequate mechanisms to fully honor the right to truth. For that you need full confessions.
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The Colombian state has to take more congruent measures with regard to civil and political rights and there are very important challenges with regard to demobilizing the paramilitary groups, so that the rule of law is upheld.
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