Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos enacted Friday a landmark "Victims' Law" aimed at redressing the estimated 4 million victims of the country's long-running internal conflict.
It marks the first attempt by a country beset for more than a half century by class-based conflict to reckon with the magnitude of its social costs.
The law creates mechanisms for compensating survivors of the tens of thousands, mostly civilians, killed since 1985 in Colombia's dirty war. Stolen land is to be returned to hundreds of thousands of displaced.
Santos signed the law in the presence of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/16905-santos-signs-historic-victims-law.htmlA great man.
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