Colombia peace tribunal charges ex-FARC members with anti-Indigenous crimes

Colombia’s transitional justice system, erected to address crimes committed during the country’s decades-long civil conflict , has indicted several former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), formerly the country’s largest rebel group. A group of 10 ex-rebels were charged on Tuesday for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity between 1996 and 2016. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), the transitional justice tribunal, said that the accused had carried out crimes of torture, murder and forced displacement against five Indigenous groups in southeast Colombia. “Today we are delivering justice to the most forgotten peoples of a segregated Colombia,” JEP magistrate Catalina Diaz said.