Aplicación del derecho internacional humanitario a los grupos armados organizados

Abstract

The content of this work analyzes the complexity of Organized Armed Groups (GAO Spanish initials) phenomenon before called criminal gangs (BACRIM Spanish initials) and their historic transformation process, making emphasis in the possibility of applying Humanitarian International Law to face their lawless units in Colombia. Beginning getting Colombia in context in the geopolitics stage, making a review since decades when the drugs cartels arose, going through different phases of struggle advanced by Colombian authorities getting at the current situation of these complex organizations and the possibility of implementing the intern and international law to stop their criminal action, focusing specifically in the legal possibility of applying the Humanitarian International Law for lethal force using to organized armed groups (GAO) as military targets. This job finally searches and analyzes the very important link that exits between criminal gans, as violence actor groups , and the risk that represents face them applying HIL ( Humanitarian International Law), without keeping in mind the principles of proportionality and distinction, rising a real legal risk for members of security forces and the international policy of human rights of Colombian State.