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Such groups are increasingly being eliminated by State action and by desertion, as evidenced by the fact that there have been over 15,000 individual cases of voluntary demobilization, with some individuals choosing to flee with hostages in order to free them from this inhuman treatment. (...) The State has faced this painful reality with total transparency and is thus in a position to state that the Colombian public security forces have made huge progress in the area of respect A/HRC/10/G/4 Page 5 for human rights, that the Colombian armed forces are committed to defending democracy and security and protecting the population, that the defence of democracy and the freedom of Colombian men and women has cost the lives of or maimed thousands of members of the Colombian armed forces, and that the great shining victories of Colombia’s legitimate armed forces cannot be sullied by these events.

This special day of our millenia old history symbolizes two important messages: having been subjected to genocide in the greater part of their historical homeland, the Armenians and their fight for survival prevailed in Sardarapat, Bash-Aparan and Karakilisa battles, and by the May Victories the Armenian people have once and for all affirmed their right to exist.

The strategic offensive known as Operation Bagration played a decisive role in the liberation of Belarus and has gone down in history as one of the outstanding victories of the Second World War. Alongside the fraternal peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, the Belarusian people defended their right to live in their native land and made an invaluable contribution to the historic victory over fascism in 1945.

*S/2021/79 األمــم المتحـدة Distr.: General مجلس األمن 25 January 2021 Arabic Original: French 090721 300321 20-17310 (A) *2017310*

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Therefore, despite the victories at the negotiating table, the achievement of an inclusive society remains encumbered, thus leaving the Guatemalan society troubled and divided with a sense of fatigue. (...) When a case does reach the courts, whether or not a perpetrator is sentenced in accordance with the rule of law often depends on the personal criteria used by the individual applying the law. B. Institutional and programmatic initiatives 47. (...) Important human rights investigations and judicial proceedings have languished unless accompanied by extraordinary efforts from individual judiciary officials and civil society organizations” (A/58/56, annex, para. 19).