Colombia must speed dismantling of armed groups -United Nations

Juliette de Rivero, Representative in Colombia of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights speaks during the presentation of the annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Colombia in Bogota, Colombia March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia should speed the dismantling of armed groups to reduce violence and human rights violations, and implement the country's 2016 peace accord with the FARC rebels, the in-country representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday.

Colombia's nearly six decades of armed conflict between the armed forces, leftist rebels, right-wing paramilitaries and crime gangs have killed at least 450,000 people.