BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
Colombia: paramilitary testifies about state role in massacres
A former leader of the clandestine anti-leftist forces that were responsible for thousands of murders is revealing the extent of the support his side received from the government, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
RIGHT-WING DEATH SQUADS: Members of the ACCU, a component group of the paramilitary AUC
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HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
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THE Colombian military and police colluded with paramilitaries to carry out atrocities including massacres and the forced displacement of thousands of people, according to testimony from a former commander in what was once Colombia’s largest paramilitary federation, the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC).
Over four days Salvatore Mancuso, who was once the AUC’s second-in-command, appeared via video in front of judges at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), the transitional justice court created in the 2016 peace agreement to investigate and prosecute major human rights violations committed during the armed conflict.
The proceedings were conducted for judges to determine whether Mancuso can provide new and concrete evidence to the JEP, thereby permitting him to formally enter its jurisdiction. This would make him eligible to receive a reduced sentence in return for shedding light on AUC activities.
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