![]() This is not the first time that the Colombian government has attempted to increase the jurisdiction of military courts. MORE: 400 more Colombia state agents charged with extrajudicial killings within last year According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, some 742 individuals have been convicted. ![]() So far, nearly 5,000 state agents, including members of the military and police, have been implicated in the extrajudicial executions. They were unsuccessful, as the Senate voted to allow his contribution. ![]() Senator Carlos Enrique Soto of President Juan Manuel Santos’ ruling U Party and right-wing opposition Senator Ernesto Macias of the Democratic Center both tried to stop Howland from speaking during the Senate debate, according to El Pais. “Colombia has to decide how it is going to confront past violations of human rights and it is important to have this debate while considering how this will be done in an open and thorough manner,” Howland added. The UN’s delegate in Colombia, Todd Howland, told the Senate that the proposed reform “is not consistent with Colombia’s international obligations to human rights.” ![]() The United Nations (UN) and human rights groups have consistently bashed the past and current proposals, highlighting the likelihood that it would exacerbate the problem of impunity in the prosecution of those involved in false positives cases. This “ false positives” scandal is centered around the extrajudicial killings of more than 4,000 civilians by members of the armed forces who dressed their victims as guerrillas in order to present them as combat kills and thus inflate the military’s apparent effectiveness in the war against leftist rebel groups like the FARC and ELN. In the second of eight Senate debates, the legislative body discussed the bill that domestic and international critics say would remove independent accountability for the military and its role in the killing of thousands of civilians during what has become known euphemistically as the “false-positives” scandal. Spot gold regained some ground to US$1,260.46, after suffering its largest weekly drop in over three years.Colombia’s senate discussed a controversial bill Wednesday that would give military courts greater jurisdiction and could increase impunity for the already slow-moving convictions of military atrocities, according to local media. In commodity markets, oil prices dipped further early Monday as players took profits following a strong rally last week spurred by talk of Opec output cuts.īenchmark Brent was off 44 cents at US$51.49 a barrel, while US crude eased 49 cents to US$49.33. On Wall Street, the Dow ended on Friday down 0.15 per cent, while the S&P 500 lost 0.33 per cent and the Nasdaq 0.27 per cent. There was relief that US payrolls data were solid enough in September but not so hot as to add to the risk of a rate hike from the Federal Reserve rate hike.įed fund futures imply less than 10 per cent chance of a move in November, rising to around 65 per cent for December. A similar dip in mid-July prompted strong intervention by state-run banks, but investors took the fall calmly, unlike sometimes in the past when such moves sparked market unease. Spot yuan fell through the key psychological support level of 6.7 to the dollar to a six-year low. ![]()
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