El derecho a la verdad como justificación de amnistías e indultos a victimarios

Abstract

The project develops the fundamental right of the victims to the truth, to the point of taking it as the basis for the decree of amnesties and pardons for the authors of the conflict, arguing how said prerogatives do not constitute an act of impunity within the framework of transitional justice in Colombia. The foregoing is based on the fact that Colombia is a country that has remained in armed conflict since the 1960s, a decade that goes back to the emergence of insurgent groups that have opposed the existing institutions through weapons. It was in 2016 that it was possible to reach a Peace Agreement with the guerrilla group with the greatest presence in the national territory, which had in its ranks about ten thousand men with a defined pyramidal structure, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Army of the People (hereinafter FARC-EP).