86. The core problem of policy regarding disappearances in Colombia was identified as centring on the question: how does one break out of the vicious cycle of terror and fear leading among other things to the various national mechanisms (including that about urgent action) not working, initial acts of disappearances producing reprisals, more disappearances and even murders, perpetrators continuing to wax strong in their impunity, and State authorities not being able to hold perpetrators to account?
86. The core problem of policy regarding disappearances in Colombia was identified as centring on the question: how does one break out of the vicious cycle of terror and fear leading among other things to the various national mechanisms (including that about urgent action) not working, initial acts of disappearances producing reprisals, more disappearances and even murders, perpetrators continuing to wax strong in their impunity, and State authorities not being able to hold perpetrators to account?