Constitución en Inglés

311 Corte Constitucional de Colombia [Declared unconstitutional] Transitional justice instruments shall be exceptional. Their principal objective will be to facilitate the end of the internal armed conflict and achievement of a stable and lasting peace, with guarantees of non- recurrence and security for all Colombians. Such instruments shall ensure at the highest possible level victims’ rights to truth, justice, and reparation. A law may authorize, within the framework of a peace agreement, a different treatment for armed groups outside the law who have participated in the armed conflict and for related state agents. A statute to guarantee State duties of investigation and punishment will establish transitional justice instruments of a judicial or extrajudicial nature. In any case mechanisms of extrajudicial nature will be applied to clarify the truth and provide reparations to victims. A Truth Commission shall be created by law. This law shall establish its purpose, composition, powers, and functions. The Commission’s powers shall include recommendations for the implementation of transitional justice instruments, including the application of selection criteria. The criteria of prioritization and selection are equally inherent to the instruments of transitional justice. The Nation’s Attorney General will determine the criteria of prioritization for making a formal criminal accusation, except in subjects that are within the scope of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace [JEP in Spanish initials]. Without prejudice to the State’s general duty to investigate and sanction serious violations of human rights and International Humanitarian Law within the TRANSITIONAL ARTICLE [Unnumbered] TRANSITIONAL ARTICLE 66