Colombia must speed dismantling of armed groups

Colombia should speed the dismantling of armed groups to reduce violence and human rights violations, and implement the country’s 2016 peace accord with
the FARC rebels, the in-country representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday.
Colombia’s nearly six decades of armed conflict between the armed forces, leftist rebels, right-wing paramilitaries and crime gangs have killed at least 450,000 people.
“We have seen the effect of violence by armed groups in the regions and that’s why we call so often for a policy of dismantlement,” said U.N. official Juliette de Rivero, during the presentation of the body’s annual report on human rights in Colombia.
President Gustavo Petro has vowed to end the conflict by inking peace or surrender deals with remaining rebels and crime gangs and by fully implementing the FARC accord.