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The matters set forth

* "New aspects in preventing victims compensation Act integral "

* * The Chamber representative Ivan Cepeda found some excerpts approved today by the First Committee of the Senate are an attack on

right to justice and reparation, to establish that an access to administrative redress
not may seek judicial and because the issue of land
recognizes victims only since 1991 * **



BOGOTA, 04/12/1911. After approving the articles of the Victims Act
in their penultimate debate in the First Committee of the Senate, the House representative Ivan Cepeda
rejected some of the items adopted in the
initiative. The congressman said that the * 'law has been a restrictive and discriminatory
definition of victims ", * and that people who have undergone
land grab will only taken into account from 1991
and not since 1985, was adopted as the text for the other victims of the conflict
.

The representative indicated that the introduction of the settlement agreement,
are being denied the right to reparation for victims, and
which states that victims have access to administrative reparation
must give up the judicial compensation.

* "There has been a violation of the right to justice because
compensation arises through a settlement agreement with the
victims, ie people who qualify for the compensation
offers this law may not do so before the court to
require repair. This directly violates the constitution ", *
Cepeda said.

The congressman said he hopes the Senate plenary
regain the true meaning of the law, and that "* not bury the few good things and advanced
has" **, * and otherwise announced, prepare a lawsuit against aspects
it considers harmful and unconstitutional.

* "If you approve those aspects that do not share, they will have to be
reviewed and declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court," * he said. Press Representative
Iván Cepeda