UN-backed report finds police brutality in Colombia killed 11 in last year's protests

Published:Dec 7, 202310:50
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Announcing the outcomes of the report on Monday, Chief investigator Carlos Negret accused Colombian National Police (PNC) of committing a "massacre.""The PNC openly dismissed any principle of proportionality or absolute necessity in using lethal force," based on the report."Who gave the order, why were they shooting against unarmed protesters, whose responsible for the pain and for the lives lost -- those are the questions we were not able to answer," Negret stated at a press convention on Monday.Negret, who served as Colombia's ombudsman from 2016 to 2020, additionally reiterated the UN definition of a bloodbath, saying it "takes place when three or more people are murdered in the same incident and by the same perpetrator."
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The impartial report was commissioned by the Mayor of Bogota, Claudia Lopez, and the Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) to analyze the deaths of a minimum of 14 folks throughout anti-brutality protests that engulfed the Colombian capital on September 9 and 10, 2020.The protests erupted after footage of police officers tasering legislation pupil Javier Ordonez -- who had been detained for allegedly breaking Covid restrictions -- went viral.Ordonez died a number of hours after he was tasered. PNC patrol officer Juan Camilo Lloreda Cubillos was sentenced to twenty years in jail and fined roughly US $370,500 for his dying.The report stated that "the events of police violence, abuse and brutality that begun in the early hours of September 9 with the murder of Javier Ordonez at the hands of National Police officers triggered one of the most serious episodes of human rights violations in the history of Bogota."In a press release to CNN, the PNC stated that that they're "mostly interested in having justice delivered and those responsible for those events...must be punished.""The full weight of the law must fall," it stated.The occasions surrounding Ordonez's dying have drawn comparisons to the homicide of George Floyd in the United States -- a person who was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, and whose dying sparked an rebellion towards police brutality and racism.Mayor Lopez was seen crying when the report findings have been learn.
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"This report is painful for the soul, but it's a necessary step to rescue and recover the state of our democracy," she stated.It's unclear if Lopez herself will face authorized motion as the highest officer in cost of public security in Bogota on the time of the protests.Earlier this yr, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accused Colombian safety forces of utilizing "disproportionate and excessive force" on protesters demonstrating towards a series of points starting from earnings inequality and allegations of police brutality. The protestors have been met with violence that left a minimum of 25 folks useless. Eleven of these deaths concerned police forces, based on the Colombian Interior Ministry.



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