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Weekly Report - 09 November 2017 (WR-17-44)

COLOMBIA: Farc justice incites controversy

The passage through Colombia’s congress of the proposed transitional justice system (JEP) that the government led by President Juan Manuel Santos and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) agreed to implement is proving to be tortuous. Opposition parties are incensed by the possibility that those convicted under the JEP could be eligible to hold public office in the future. Yet allowing the Farc to participate in politics is one of the underlying principles of the peace accord.

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