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Colombia: Human Rights Watch Says Paramilitary Broadcast "Risks Becoming a Showcase For Impunity"
Posted to the IUF website 03-Dec-2003Share this article.
According to Human Rights Watch, "The Colombian government's television broadcast of a paramilitary demobilization risks becoming a showcase for impunity. Instead of handing these criminals a microphone, the government should be concentrating on arresting them and bringing them to justice."
For the full text of the Human Rights Watch statement, click on http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/11/colombia112503.htm