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How cuts under Colombia’s de la Espriella threaten a key human rights court
Colombia's president plans to slash spending on a transitional justice court. But war crimes victims fear the cost.
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President Abelardo de la Espriella has pledged to slash spending on JEP, Colombia's transitional justice court. But war crimes victims fear the cost.
They were among a string of farmers and merchants to go missing in the southwestern department of Huila in Colombia.
First came her uncle Reynaldo Cordon Herrera's kidnapping. A grocer by trade, he had been travelling by truck on January 22, 2003, when he went missing.
In an interview with the radio show Recap Blu, he accused JEP of "persecuting the heroes of the homeland" while "washing the hands of the guerrillas who committed crimes against humanity".