Three and a half years after its launch, the Commission for the Clarification of the Truth gave the country its final report, with the main clarifications on what happened in the armed conflict that the country has suffered and the recommendations to prevent and not repeat the cruelty of war.
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Father Francisco de Roux, who chairs the Commission, presented a summary of the findings that are the product of more than 23,000 hours of research and deliberation, 14,928 individual and collective interviews (in which 28,562 people in Colombia and 23 other countries were heard), the review and verification of 1,195 reports on violence in the country, the in-depth investigation of 730 cases, among others.
The commission listened to peasants, Afro and indigenous communities, the LGBTIQ+ population, businessmen, teachers, merchants, exiled people, former guerrillas, former paramilitaries, former drug traffickers, members of the Public Force, academics and even all the former presidents of the Republic who are still alive.
The entity provided acknowledgments of responsibility and dignity of victims (such as kidnapping and ‘false positives’), and 17 great contributions to the truth (such as that of former paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso together with the last commander of the FARC, Rodrigo Londoño). The work addresses from 1958 to 2016.
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