{"id":33706,"date":"2014-07-23T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=33706"},"modified":"2015-12-28T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T16:00:51","slug":"the-attorney-general-office-participated-in-forum-concerning-peace-culture-and-transitional-justice-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2014\/07\/23\/the-attorney-general-office-participated-in-forum-concerning-peace-culture-and-transitional-justice-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attorney General Office participated in Forum concerning Peace Culture and Transitional Justice: Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General Office, The Organization of Ibeo-American States (OEI in Spanish), Vivamos Humanos Foundation, Los Andes University and the Department for Social Prosperity (DPS in Spanish) carried out the first <em>Forum concerning Peace Culture and Transitional Justice: Truth<\/em>.\u00a0 An event that seeks to know about the right to the truth that \u00a0victims of armed conflict have.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 400 people attended this meeting. 116 of them, were\u00a0 victims of the armed conflict. The opening ceremony was in charge of the Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos; former President Ernesto Samper Pizano, the IEO Director, \u00c1ngel Mart\u00edn Peccis; President of the Constitutional Court, Luis Ernesto Vargas and National Director of Joint Specialized Prosecutors\u2019 Offices, Caterina Heyck.<\/p>\n<p>During Doctor Caterina Heyck\u2019s presentation it was highlighted the importance of victims for State Institutions and explained that they are the survivors of the armed conflict. However, the right to the truth has not occurred in all respects since the truth defined in the 975 Justice and Peace Law relied on confessions made by the paramilitaries but 4359 mass graves and bodies 5591 have been found. These have shown another part of the truth which contribute to clear up the facts.<\/p>\n<p>The official expressed her interest in the fact that the conclusions of the <em>Forum concerning Peace Culture and Transitional Justice: Truth <\/em>could help to create the <em>Truth Commission\u00a0 (Comision de Verdad in spanish).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She also referred to the importance of right to truth in relevant situations such as those that the country is living today, since this year the implementation of the 975 Justice and Peace Law \u00a0completed its eight year and many <em>Postulados* <\/em>would be released. She also added that the Attorney General Office will provide a certificate including information about the assets that were handed over and offenses committed after the demobilization process and in this way, it will be determined which<em> Postulado <\/em>will have the right to be released.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Forum concerning Peace Culture and Transitional Justice: Truth<\/em> is scheduled until tomorrow July 24 at the premises of\u00a0 Bogota Chamber of Commerce, Chico Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Postulados<\/em>: demobilized members of illegal armed groups who postulated to obtain a benefit from the Justice and Peace Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General Office, The Organization of Ibeo-American States (OEI in Spanish), Vivamos Humanos Foundation, Los Andes University and the Department for Social Prosperity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34920,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706\/revisions\/34920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}