Colombia: Barrancabermeja: A city under siege

Colombia: Barrancabermeja: A city under siege

Index Number: AMR 23/036/1999
Date Published: 1 May 1999
Categories: Colombia, Americas, South America

This report focuses principally on the paramilitary attack on Barrancabermeja of 16 May 1998 and subsequent paramilitary incursions into the city. It explains the clear connection between paramilitaries groups and the army and the lgovernment failure to fully investigate the attack. It includes a profile of the 25 'disappeared', and killed. It ends with a set of recommendation to the Colombian authorities.