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Viewing cable 09BOGOTA2065, BOTH SIDES SEE SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE IN VICTIMS'

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09BOGOTA2065 2009-06-26 22:29 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Bogota
VZCZCXYZ0006
PP RUEHWEB

DE RUEHBO #2065/01 1772229
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 262229Z JUN 09
FM AMEMBASSY BOGOTA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9563
INFO RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 9007
RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 2396
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ JUN LIMA 7695
RUEHZP/AMEMBASSY PANAMA 3791
RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO 8392
RUEHGL/AMCONSUL GUAYAQUIL 4931
RUCNFB/FBI WASHINGTON DC
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC
RUEAWJC/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHDC
RHMFISS/HQ USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
UNCLAS BOGOTA 002065 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS PREL CO
SUBJECT: BOTH SIDES SEE SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE IN VICTIMS' 
LAW DEMISE 
 
REF: BOGOTA 1369 
 
 
SUMMARY 
------- 
 
1.  (U)  Citing exorbitant costs, the Uribe coalition voted 
down the final version of the Victim's bill--which would have 
provided financial and land reparations to all victims--on 
June 18.  Victims' groups considered the loss a relative 
victory since the GOC-sponsored Victims' bill--which required 
state agents to be convicted prior to the payment of 
reparations and provided less generous benefits--died in 
conference committee.  UNHCHR called the GOC distinction 
between different classes of victims "discriminatory."  Both 
the GOC and opposition promised to introduce new Victims' 
bills when Congress resumes in July.  End Summary 
 
VICTIMS' BILL DIES: BOTH SIDES SEE THE BRIGHT SIDE 
--------------------------------------------- ----- 
 
2.  (U)  The Uribista coalition in the Senate voted down the 
Victims' bill on June 18.  The bill's final version, 
negotiated in conference committee between the two chambers, 
maintained the Senate-approved opposition bill language 
rather than the House-approved GOC bill.  The GOC bill 
ignored land reparations and provided limited financial 
compensation to victims of guerrillas and paramilitaries. 
Victims of state agents would only receive benefits if the 
perpetrators were convicted in court.  In contrast, the 
opposition bill offered both financial and land reparations, 
and considered all victims to be equal under the law, 
regardless of the aggressor (REFTEL). It also called for 
substantially more generous financial reparations than the 
GOC bill, and mandated GOC protective measures--independent 
of a threat assessment--for all victims. 
 
3.  (U)  President Uribe intervened to quash the final 
version.  He defended the GOC bill's distinction between 
victims, saying military and police should not be placed on 
equal footing with terrorists.  Uribe said the final bill's 
proposed cost--which he put at $40 billion--was unaffordable, 
and would ultimately be no more than an "empty promise." 
(Note: The total GOC budget in 2009 is $70 billion.)  The GOC 
proposal came in at $11 billion.  The GOC based its estimates 
on the almost one million potential beneficiaries--233,103 
victims and 693,000 displaced families--already registered 
with Accion Social.  Uribe accused the bill's supporters of 
thinking more of their election prospects than of the 
victims, and promised the GOC's administrative reparations 
program--a $100 million dollar project directed at 10,000 
victims and originally set to launch in May--would soon begin 
making payments. 
 
4.  (U)  Human rights groups scoffed at the GOC's purported 
financial concerns, attributing the GOC's resistance to the 
opposition bill's equitable treatment of all victims, but 
they provided no alternative financial estimates.  The 
opposition also failed to identify any potential funding 
sources.  Liberal party Senator Juan Fernando Cristo, 
co-sponsor of the opposition bill, simply said it was the 
GOC's duty to find the resources to pay all victims 
reparations. 
 
5.  (U)  Victims' rights groups, increasingly concerned the 
narrower, GOC-sponsored bill would become law, launched a 
widespread lobbying and press campaign against it.  They 
celebrated the opposition bill's success in conference 
committee and considered its ultimate defeat a relative 
triumph since the GOC bill also died with it. 
 
WHO IS A VICTIM? 
---------------- 
 
6.  (U)  United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 
Navy Pillay called the GOC's distinction between victims of 
state agents and victims of illegal groups "discriminatory" 
and urged the GOC to make reparations to all victims "without 
conditions."  The Colombia UNHCHR office lamented the 
 
opposition bill's demise in a June 23 press release and 
reiterated that international standards required the GOC to 
compensate victims according to the harm suffered, rather 
than according to the author of the crime.  Ivan Cepeda, 
Director of the National Movement of Victims of State 
Violence, said the GOC's categorization of victims was 
immoral and showed the GOC is uninterested in defending 
victims' rights. 
 
7.  (U)  Both the GOC and opposition promised to introduce 
new Victims' bills when Congress reconvenes in July. 
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