US EditionColombia's Historic Apology for State-Led Extermination
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Colombia's Historic Apology for State-Led Extermination
By Josep Freixes - November 10, 2025In the city of Santa Marta, during the Fourth Summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union, the Colombian state on Sunday made public an act of acknowledgment and apology to the victims of the extensive process of political extermination against the Patriotic Union (UP), a Colombian left-wing party during the 1980s and 1990s.President Gustavo Petro assumed …
Bogotá. The Colombian State, following a ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), apologized to the Patriotic Union (UP), a leftist party, for the nearly seven thousand of its militants killed by paramilitarism in complicity with liberal and conservative right-wing politicians and security agents. Although international justice does not qualify it as genocide, in Colombia the victims of the massacre that took place for 15 year…
Ceremony To Ask Forgiveness From The Victims Of Violence In Colombia / Acto Para Pedir Perdón A Las Víctimas De La Violencia En Colombia. - World BEYOND War
By Gabriel Aguirre, World BEYOND War, November 10, 2025 In an unprecedented and historic event, the Colombian government organized a public ceremony attended by more than 5,000 people, including victims and relatives of those killed in the extermination of the Patriotic Union political force. The event was organized following the peace agreements signed in 1984 between the government of Belisario Betancourt and the FARC guerrilla group in an eff…
Petro said that “the Colombian State must ask forgiveness, not offer it, because it is responsible for a political genocide.” The State recognized its responsibility and apologized this Sunday for the extermination of thousands of militants of the leftist Union Patriotic (UP) party between 1984 and 2002, in an act led by President Gustavo Petro, in the Caribbean city of Santa Marta. The event took place within the framework of the Fourth Summit …
The Colombian state asks forgiveness of the victims of the political genocide of Unión Patriótica By Juan Carlos González In compliance with the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the government asked forgiveness of all the survivors, victims and families of the militants of the Unión Patriótica (UP) party killed for at least two decades. [...] The entry Colombia Gustavo Petro asks forgiveness on behalf of the State to the vict…
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