Special forces soldiers march in a military parade. Fernando Vergara / AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.
Colombia is currently setting up a new, innovative and unique system of justice for its transition, based on two precepts: first, the enforcement of a constitutional framework (a legal-political framework for peace), and second, the dialogue with the main armed group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army (FARC), outside the existing law of the country (negotiating table horizontality).
Bearing in mind the first precept and out of due respect for the Constitution and the Law, the Colombian government has argued from the outset that the armed forces will not be subject to negotiation in Havana. And so it has been, and has been ratified by the two Army Generals sitting at the table as plenipotentiary negotiators. In fact, the recent agreement on justice in Havana had a unilateral component, for the ministers of justice and defense signed a document, in the parade field of the José María Córdova Military School of Cadets in Bogotá, containing the government’s commitment to "circumstantial justice" for state agents – that is, including members of the security forces.
