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Andean Group - July 2011 (ISSN 1741-4466)
POLITICS & SECURITY: The ghost of violence past
The numbers speak for themselves and the message for President Juan
Manuel Santos is not a positive one. Although the government has made the
restitution of land to people forcefully (and illegally) displaced by Colombia's
internal conflict a policy priority, it has inadvertently increased the risk for
the local advocates of displaced victims. In the eight years of the Alvaro Uribe
(2002-2010) administration, 35 activists calling for the restitution of land
were murdered; in the first 10 months of President Santos's administration, 11
have been killed.
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