Manuel Cepeda

Summary

Manuel Cepeda Vargas was a Colombian lawyer and Senator, gunned down in Bogotá on 9 August 1994 as part of a campaign against the Patriotic Union. A Communist party politician, he had been a Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 1992 to 1994. In 2010, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights determined that Colombia violated the Inter-American Convention On Human Rights in the investigation of his death.