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Can the Civilians Control the Army?

Neier, Aryeh | November 13, 1982 issue

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Focuses on issues pertaining to efforts undertaken by the government of Colombia to improve the human rights situation in the country, as of November 1982. Number of documented murders, disappearances and cases of torture that the Comite Permanente por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos attributed to the country's armed forces or to paramilitary organizations; Cases of human rights violations that are attributed to the Muerte a Secuestradores, the country's leading paramilitary organization.

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HUMAN rights; COLOMBIA -- Politics & government -- 1974-; POLITICAL stability; POLITICAL crimes & offenses
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