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Security & Strategic Review - April 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)
REGION: The other security deficit
For all its work helping others improve their public security, Colombia has found itself (again) among the four countries blacklisted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH in the Spanish acronym) in Chapter IV of its annual report as meriting ‘special attention’ for its human rights situation. The other three are Venezuela, Cuba and Honduras (also repeat appearances). Colombia remains in the list because of rights violations due to the continuing actions of organised crime. The CIDH expresses concern about the ‘non-demobilised remnants of paramilitary structures’ and the emergence of new armed groups, and the extra judicial executions ‘presumably carried out by members of the public force’, which have not received appropriate punishment.
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