“Through the opening of these new macro-cases, (the JEP) today insists before the country on its unwavering decision to continue investigating, revealing the truth, and administering justice on the human rights violations and serious infractions of international humanitarian law committed” during the armed conflict, he stressed.
The entity, born after the signing of the Peace Agreement, indicated that members of the extinct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), of the public force, civilian third parties and State agents not members of the public force that voluntarily avail themselves of this jurisdiction.
These are elements who “not only affected millions of victims in the country, but also offended and attacked the conscience of humanity,” he said.
The opening of these new macro-cases will take place once the process of dialogue hearings with the participation of social, ethnic, human rights and victims’ organizations has finished, which will begin on February 21 in the city of Medellín, he specified.
The hearings will continue in San José del Guaviare on February 25, Valledupar on February 28, Cali on March 3, Villavicencio on March 7 and will end in Bogotá on March 9 and 10.
Preliminarily, these cases are called the National Concentration of Crimes Committed by the Extinct FARC-EP, which investigates sexual and gender-based violence, homicides, massacres, forced displacement, forced disappearance, occupations of populations, indiscriminate use of weapons, and other non-amnesty crimes.
The other case, Crimes committed by members of the security forces, other State agents or in association with paramilitary groups and civilian third parties, which investigates sexual and gender-based violence, murders, massacres, forced disappearances, torture, forced displacement and land dispossession .
Finally, the third is called Concentration of crimes committed against Ethnic Peoples and Territories, which will investigate selective and indiscriminate massacres and assassinations against authorities, women leaders and members of ethnic peoples.
The latter will also investigate the destruction of nature, territory and socio-environmental damage and other repertoires of associated violence such as sexual violence and forced disappearance committed by all the actors in the conflict appearing mandatory and voluntary before this Jurisdiction.
“We are listening to thousands of victims (….) we are going to implement a methodology that will not only investigate by conduct, but by actor or type of victim with which it is sought to cover the serious crimes that occurred in the framework of the armed conflict”, emphasized the JEP.
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