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Paramilitaries’ Heirs
The New Face of Violence in Colombia
Glossary
Map of Colombia
I. Summary and Recommendations
The Successor Groups: A Predictable
Outcome of a Flawed Demobilization
The Human Rights and Humanitarian
Impact of the Successor Groups
Colombia’s Obligations
State Response
Recommendations
II. Methodology
II. The Successor Groups: A
Predictable Outcome of a Flawed Demobilization
A Fundamentally Flawed Demobilization
Failure to Verify Who Was
Demobilizing
Failure to Dismantle
Paramilitaries’ Criminal and Financial Networks
Links between the AUC and its
Successors
Leadership
Drug Trafficking and Other Criminal
Activity
Counterinsurgency Operations
III. The Rise and Growth of the
Successor Groups
The Principal Successor Groups
What are the Black Eagles?
Recruitment of New Members
IV. The Successor Groups’ Human
Rights and Humanitarian Impact
Violence and Threats against
Vulnerable Groups
Raped and Threatened for Helping
Victims
Anti-Union Violence
Local Threats and Killings: a
Constant Problem
Threats and Violence against Victims
of the AUC
Internal Displacement
Regional Examples
Successor Groups in Medellín
Successor Groups in the Urabá
Region
Successor Groups in Meta
Successor Groups in Nariño
IV. Colombia’s Response
Obligations to Protect against the
Successor Groups
Combating the Groups
The Decision to Use the Police, not
the Military, to Combat the Successor Groups
Mixed Results and Obstacles to
Progress in Combating the Groups
Lack of Accountability
Toleration by State Agents
Failure to Adequately Protect
Civilians
Questions about Protection for AUC
Victims
Failure to Adequately Register
Displacement by the Successor Groups
Inadequate Responses to and Resources
for Early Warning System
Acknowledgments
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