A/HRC/31/3/Add.2 officers for the killing of Diego Felipe Becerra in 2011. Lack of disciplinary action against lawyers using such practices or judges that tolerate them undermine non-recurrence. 58. Since 2012, the Attorney General has made multiple public commitments to move forward investigations against senior military officers. At the end of 2015, nine army generals had given preliminary declarations. While international law recognizes criminal responsibility through omission, this has not been adequately applied to military commanders in Colombia, including in cases of “false positive” extrajudicial executions or paramilitary actions in zones under military control. 59. Directive 0003, issued by the Attorney General in December, on the criminal prosecution of war crimes on national territory must be modified to be consistent with international standards and Constitutional Court decisions to reflect the simultaneous application of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. 3. Current extrajudicial executions 60. During 2015, OHCHR-Colombia documented 10 cases of alleged arbitrary deprivation of life by army members in Antioquia, Cauca, Tolima, Arauca, Meta, Norte de Santander and Caquetá. The army qualified five of these as “military errors” without clarifying the operational, command and control, tactical discipline or procedural causes. The State breaches its international obligations when it fails to take effective criminal, disciplinary, operational and/or command and control action to ensure non-recurrence. 4. Intelligence 61. In two significant reverses in the fight against impunity for past civilian intelligence violations by DAS, the Attorney General’s Office declared that the statute of limitations for three crimes had elapsed and failed to impose preventive detention on eight ex-DAS officials. In a case involving psychological torture of a female journalist, State omission enabled the former Director and Secretary-General of DAS to leave the country despite the fact that an arrest warrant had been issued and his location had been known to the authorities. 5. Feminicide 62. OHCHR-Colombia considers the criminalization of feminicide through Law No. 1761 of 2015 as progress. It is necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the procedural and investigative failings that impeded convictions against those responsible for the killings of women and to ensure that the normative change leads to substantive improvement in women’s enjoyment of the right to life. OHCHR-Colombia offers the State technical support in this regard. E. 1. Victims’ rights Registration 63. The Government has from the outset prioritized the rights of and response to victims of armed conflict through the Victims and Land Reparation Law and through the recognition of victims in the peace process. Over the past four years, an average of 1,600 victims of incidents occurring prior to or after the law’s adoption have been registered each day. A total of 7,874,201 victims have been registered, almost 50 per cent women and children. UARIV calculates that 6,084,064 persons — 12.4 per cent of the population — require reparations. This exceeds the currently allocated economic and technical resources. 12

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