{"id":977963,"date":"2023-02-01T19:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/01\/colombia-reparations-systemic-violence-leftwing-patriotic-union"},"modified":"2023-02-01T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T19:06:02","slug":"colombia-to-pay-reparations-for-role-in-extermination-of-leftwing-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/01\/colombia-to-pay-reparations-for-role-in-extermination-of-leftwing-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia to pay reparations for role in extermination of leftwing party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inter-American Court of Human Rights concludes state allowed eradication of 6,000 Patriotic Union party members in 1980s<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/colombia\">Colombia<\/a> has pledged to pay reparations to victims after the inter-American court of human rights (IACHR) concluded the state allowed the systematic extermination of the leftwing Patriotic Union (UP) party in the 1980s and 90s.<\/p><p>The UP was a political party created out of a peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces (Farc) guerrillas in 1985 but 6,000 of its members were wiped out by rightwing paramilitaries, narcos and the Colombian military.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/01\/colombia-reparations-systemic-violence-leftwing-patriotic-union\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/01\/colombia-reparations-systemic-violence-leftwing-patriotic-union\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inter-American Court of Human Rights concludes state allowed eradication of 6,000 Patriotic Union party members in 1980sColombia has pledged to pay reparations to victims after the inter-American court of human rights (IACHR) concluded the state allowe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1280,1007,6671,6,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977963"}],"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\/26267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977965,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977963\/revisions\/977965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}