The next Colombia Solidarity Campaign branch meeting will be on:
Tuesday 21 July at 7pm at The Apple Tree pub, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1 (Russell Square, Farringdon, Kings X or Angel tube).
Counterinsurgency and Human Rights Violations in Colombia:
The presentation will introduce the main points of my ongoing research on the relationship between human rights violations by state agents and counterinsurgency strategies during the 1990s and the 2000s. These strategies not only include military operations in combat, but also the targeting of presumed informants or sympathizers of the insurgents; as well as other well known counterinsurgency practices like the creation of ‘death squads’ or paramilitary groups. The analysis of these strategies would clarify the link between them and the violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law by state agents in Colombia.
Which have been the main strategies used by the state? Have these strategies changed after the declaration of the ‘war on terror’? Have the explicit use of US military aid for counterinsurgency strategies (previously bound to counternarcotics operations) from 2002 changed the situation? These and other questions will be addressed in the presentation.
Contrainsurgencia y derechos humanos en Colombia:
La presentación es sobre la relación entre las violaciones de los derechos humanos por parte de agentes del estado Colombiano y la política contrainsurgente adoptada por el mismo durante los últimos 20 años. Las estrategias contrainsurgentes no solo incluyen operaciones militares en combate, sino también la persecución de presuntos informantes o simpatizantes de los grupos insurgentes, así como la creación de ”escuadrones de la muerte” o grupos paramilitares. El análisis de estas estrategias puede esclarecer las relaciones de estas con las violaciones de derechos humanos y Derecho Internacional Humanitario por parte de agentes del estado.
Cuales han sido las principales estrategias contrainsurgentes usadas por las fuerzas militares durante los últimos 20 años? Cómo han cambiado desde la declaración de la “guerra contra el terrorismo”? Que influencia ha tenido la aprobación explícita del uso de ayuda militar de Estados Unidos para operaciones antiguerrilla, antes reservada para operaciones antinarcóticos? Estas y otras preguntas serán debatidas en la presentación.
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