BOGOTA: Journalist Jineth Bedoya, who was kidnapped, raped and tortured by paramilitaries 21 years ago, on Tuesday applauded the"historic" decision by a regional rights court to hold the Colombian state responsible for her violent assault.
"It's a historic sentence. The court's decisions as reparations ... are public policy, but also jurisprudence for the entire hemisphere, not just Colombia," Bedoya, fighting back tears, told reporters in the capital Bogota.The court is an autonomous part of the Organization of American States and its decisions are definitive and unappealable.
The paramilitaries, some of whom have already been convicted for the crimes committed against Bedoya, were right-wing militias that fought left-wing guerrillas during Colombia's bloody 60-year conflict. They were dissolved in 2006. President Ivan Duque said Colombia"fully accepts the decision" and that it should be used"to prevent anything like this from happening again."And she blasted the"silence" and lack of solidarity of female government officials, including Vice-President Martha Lucia Ramirez.
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