{"id":722427,"date":"2022-06-28T23:07:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T23:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/29\/war-on-drugs-prolonged-colombias-decades-long-civil-war-landmark-report-finds"},"modified":"2022-06-28T23:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T23:07:33","slug":"war-on-drugs-prolonged-colombias-decades-long-civil-war-landmark-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/28\/war-on-drugs-prolonged-colombias-decades-long-civil-war-landmark-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"War on drugs prolonged Colombia\u2019s decades-long civil war, landmark report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truth commission\u2019s report, touted as a chance to heal after half a century of bloodshed, called for a \u2018substantial change in drug policy\u2019 <\/p><p>The punitive, prohibitionist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/apr\/02\/un-war-on-drugs-failure-prohibition-united-nations\">war on drugs<\/a> helped prolong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/colombia\">Colombia<\/a>\u2019s disastrous civil war, the country\u2019s truth commission has found, in a landmark report published on Tuesday as part of an effort to heal the raw wounds left by conflict.<\/p><p>The report, titled \u201cThere is a future if there is truth\u201d was the first instalment of a study put together by the commission that was formed as part of a historic 2016 peace deal with the leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/29\/war-on-drugs-prolonged-colombias-decades-long-civil-war-landmark-report-finds\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/29\/war-on-drugs-prolonged-colombias-decades-long-civil-war-landmark-report-finds\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth commission\u2019s report, touted as a chance to heal after half a century of bloodshed, called for a \u2018substantial change in drug policy\u2019 The punitive, prohibitionist war on drugs helped prolong Colombia\u2019s disastrous civil war, the country\u2019s truth comm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1280,1007,3760,50557,50552,6,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723220,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722427\/revisions\/723220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}