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La ineficacia del Estado colombiano en el caso de la masacre de Mapiripán

Resumen

This investigation allowed an analysis of what happened after the events of the Mapiripan massacre and how the victims exhausted the mechanisms of the Colombian legal system without effectively finding the protection of their rights and justice for those who perished in it. Contrary to this, they had to resort to other mechanisms, in this case to International Organizations to find justice. Despite the fact that actions by the Colombian justice system were registered in order to find those responsible, the application of justice was not achieved efficiently, so the tests and investigations carried out by the International Organizations on what happened in Mapiripan, concluded that an arduous investigation, prompt work or government action was not carried out, because the investigation was initiated by the State eight (8) years after the massacre perpetrated against civilian citizens of the municipality of Mapiripan, located in the Department of Meta. For this reason, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights indicated that the Colombian State was unable to fulfill even its investigative work, nor was it able to find the culprits of said crime. For what it ordered through judgment Series C No. 134 of September 15, 2005, the Colombian State to do everything within its power to investigate and manage to find the persons or intellectual authors who perpetrated the barbarism known as " Mapiripan Massacre”; Crime of which the exact number of deaths, mutilated or tortured civilians by the actions of a group of the commandos of the so-called United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia - AUC, is not known. With which it was possible to conclude that even though our Colombian State has ratified a series of treaties in defense and protection of human rights there have been cases in which they are not complied with, which is why they continue to occur. cases of assassinations, torture, transgressions of constitutional rights