In a context such as this, the ‘Justice and Peace’ Law, determinedly pushed through by President Uribe, means that crimes against humanity can, to all intents and purposes, go unpunished, especially when committed by paramilitary leaders, who have also turned out to be running international drug traffic, and that the principles of ‘truth, justice, and reparation’ can be completely flouted, as has been shown by the ‘confession’ made before prosecuting magistrates by Salvatore Mancuso, an Italo-Colombian former AUC leader, who attempted to justify his murdering role by laying the blame at the door of lower ranking paramilitaries or army officers who were already dead.
En este contexto, la ley denominada de «justicia y paz», enérgicamente defendida por el Presidente Uribe, favorece sustancialmente la impunidad de los crímenes contra la humanidad, cometidos en particular por los jefes paramilitares, que se ha demostrado que son, al mismo tiempo, los dirigentes del tráfico internacional de estupefacientes, y no respeta ningún principio de verdad, justicia y reparación, como demuestra la «confesión» ante los jueces de la Fiscalía de Salvatore Mancuso, exdirigente italocolombiano de las AUC, que ha intentado justificar su papel de asesino, descargando la responsabilidad sobre sus subalternos, paramilitares u oficiales del ejército ya fallecidos.not-set not-set