Resolution number
8
Whereas
- Colombia continues to experience a plague of human rights violations with comparatively little world attention and near total impunity for the perpetrators;
- The Colombian government continues to disavow responsibility for the human rights violations;
- On 16 May 1998 Colombian paramilitaries murdered seven people and disappeared 25 others in Barrancabermeja;
- A campaign has been organized by a coalition of Colombian NGOs to try the perpetrators of this crime in public opinion tribunals in several countries, including Canada;
Therefore be it resolved
That the CCR wholeheartedly embrace the international campaign for people's opinion tribunals to judge and allocate responsibility for the May 16, 1998massacre in Barrancabermeja, Colombia
Working Group
Overseas Protection and Resettlement