


"If we had to observe one minute of silence for each victim of the armed conflict in Colombia, we would have to keep silent for 17 years." In a moving speech, Jesuit priest Francisco de Roux, president of the Comisión de la Verdad (Truth Commission), presented an 896-page interim report on Tuesday, June 28, in Bogotá, in the crowded Jorge-Eliecer-Gaitan Theater. Colombia Truth Commission delivers interim report on decades of armed conflictĪfter an investigation lasting almost four years, an extrajudicial commission delivered its interim report on 30 years of armed conflict, counting 450,664 dead, 50,770 kidnapped and nearly 8 million people displaced.īy Olivier Poujade Published on June 30, 2022, at 12:09 pm (Paris)
