Norma relacionada
Colombia
Practice Relating to Rule 98. Enforced Disappearance
Section A. General
Colombia’s Basic Military Manual (1995) provides: “It is prohibited to deprive [the civilian population] of its liberty (sequestration, enforced disappearances).”
Colombia, Derecho Internacional Humanitario – Manual Básico para las Personerías y las Fuerzas Armadas de Colombia, Ministerio de Defensa Nacional, 1995, p. 30.
In 2005, in the Constitutional Case No. C-473/05, the Plenary Chamber of Colombia’s Constitutional Court stated with regard to deceased victims of enforced disappearance:
All necessary measures must be adopted in order to deliver the body to [the victim’s] … relatives. This obligation must be fulfilled irrespective of whether the identity of the perpetrator of the disappearance or killing is identified and of whether an investigation of those allegedly responsible is opened.
Colombia, Constitutional Court, Constitutional Case No. C-473/05, Judgment of 10 May 2005, § 58.
In 2007, in the Constitutional Case No. C-291/07, the Plenary Chamber of Colombia’s Constitutional Court stated:
Taking into account … the development of customary international humanitarian law applicable in internal armed conflicts, the Constitutional Court notes that the fundamental guarantees stemming from the principle of humanity, some of which have attained ius cogens status, … [include] the prohibition of enforced disappearances.
Colombia, Constitutional Court, Constitutional Case No. C-291/07, Judgment of 25 April 2007, p. 112.
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