The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) received the “comprehensive diagnosis” from the documentary collection of the archives of the extinct Administrative Department of Security (DAS, secret police), to evaluate its declassification and allow access to this information to the victims of the Colombian armed conflict.
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“This is an important step to allow access to these files, which is key to fighting impunity in some serious human rights violations committed during the armed conflict”said Judge Óscar Parra, of the JEP, quoted in a statement from that high court.
The diagnosis, prepared by the General Archive of the Nation, will allow the Jurisdiction to evaluate the route and the necessary conditions to make public the intelligence and counterintelligence files and the reserved expenses, as well as the rest of the documents in this fund to guarantee victims access to these documents.
It also makes 32 recommendations to guarantee “an ideal state of documentation so that it can be made available to citizens in general, but especially to victims of the conflict who have suffered serious human rights violations by State agents based on intelligence information and counterintelligence produced by those who were DAS agents”, added the JEP.
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This occurs in a procedure led by Judge Parra to comply with the precautionary measures ordered by the Recognition Chamber of Jurisdiction to guarantee the conditions of preservation and access to these documents.
The DAS documentary collection is made up of “57,544 conservation units with documentation, which are equivalent to 14,364 linear meters of documentation, as well as 47,829 magnetic and digital media (which include servers, disks, floppy disks, cassettes, computers, tapes, among others).”
The DAS He was liquidated after an espionage plot was discovered during the Government of Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), case for which around twenty of its officials have been prosecuted.
EFE
