Tuesday 4 May 2021

WOLA: Biden's government must suspend all sales of crowd control equipment to Colombia’s security forces

 



The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) is receiving reports of grossly excessive use of police force from several Colombian cities. Cali is the most severe, but incidents are reported in Barranquilla, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Manizales, and elsewhere. The vicious and indiscriminate use of force against participants in national protests is not new: similar abuses took place in November 2019 and September 2020. The events of the past few days, though, appear even more severe than these earlier examples of police brutality. 


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