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Luke Taylor in Bogotá

Colombia revokes amnesty it granted to alleged IRA bomb-making trio

Niall Connolly (left), Martin McCauley (centre) and James Monaghan in Bogotá, Colombia, after their arrest in 2001.
Niall Connolly (left), Martin McCauley (centre) and James Monaghan in Bogotá, Colombia, after their arrest in 2001. Photograph: AP

Colombia’s peace tribunal has revoked a controversial amnesty it granted to three alleged IRA members accused of training Colombia’s largest guerrilla group in bomb-making.

Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) had pardoned the trio in April 2020 providing they fully divulge the truth about a trip they made to Colombia in 2001 at the height of the country’s six decades of conflict.

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