Colombian congressman Iván Cepeda [2] Aug. 17 presented a case against former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe [2] for slander to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The complaint regards comments made by Uribe in 2002 in which he accused the inhabitants of the San José de Apartadó [3] peace community, along with Jesuit Priest Javier Giraldo [4], of colluding with left-wing guerrillas. Following the accusations, 20 members of the peace community were murdered.
Colombian Congress investigated the accusations against Uribe, but the then-president was absolved of any wrongdoing. Cepeda, a member of leftist political party Polo Democratico [5], requested copies of documents pertaining to the investigation and submitted them to the ICC to be examined. (Colombia Reports [6], Aug. 18)
Colombia has already received warnings [7] from the International Criminal Court.
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