Armed groups control daily lives along Colombia-Venezuela border -- HRW (Jan. 22, 2020)
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Armed groups use brutal violence to control peoples’ daily lives in the eastern Colombian province of Arauca and the neighboring Venezuelan state of Apure, according to a new Human Rights Watch report out today. The report documented abuses including murder, kidnappings, disappearances, child recruitment and rape, carried out by the National Liberation Army (ELN), the Patriotic Forces of National Liberation (FPLN), and a group that emerged from the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The abuses are part of "the groups' strategy to control the social, political, and economic life of Arauca and Apure. Impunity for such abuses is the rule," notes the report.
Armed groups control daily lives along Colombia-Venezuela border -- HRW (Jan. 22, 2020)
Armed groups control daily lives along…
Armed groups control daily lives along Colombia-Venezuela border -- HRW (Jan. 22, 2020)
Armed groups use brutal violence to control peoples’ daily lives in the eastern Colombian province of Arauca and the neighboring Venezuelan state of Apure, according to a new Human Rights Watch report out today. The report documented abuses including murder, kidnappings, disappearances, child recruitment and rape, carried out by the National Liberation Army (ELN), the Patriotic Forces of National Liberation (FPLN), and a group that emerged from the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The abuses are part of "the groups' strategy to control the social, political, and economic life of Arauca and Apure. Impunity for such abuses is the rule," notes the report.