[News] Colombia: FARC Party Denounces 128 Killings of Ex-militants
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Colombia: FARC Party Denounces 128 Killings of Ex-militants
Published 16 April 2019
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Colombian Senator Victoria Sandino is demanding the government give
urgent attention to the murders of ex-combatants of the
demobilized Marxist guerrilla group, Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) "who have reached their limit," after the Monday murder
of a seven-month-old boy and son of a former militant.
"To the father and mother of the child our message is of solidarity. But
to the government, to the public prosecutors office, to the
Colombian state, we demand that the facts are clarified first, that
justice be done, but above all that they guarantee the lives of our
comrades of the leaders and children," said Sandino, leader within the
People's Alternative Revolutionary Force (FARC) political party.
"You cannot continue killing the hope of peace that was bet on by
Colombians who want to turn the page of war," said the Congress member.
The FARC representative urged President Ivan Duque
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Colombian-President-Seeks-To-Weaken-Peace-Accord-Court--20190311-0002.html>'s government
to act immediately to end the killings of ex-combatants.
Since the signing of the Final Peace Accord in 2016, at least 128
members of the FARC have been killed in Colombia, says the director of
the state institution Agency for Reincorporation and Normalization
<http://www.reincorporacion.gov.co/en/agency>, Andres Stapper.
"We have a report of 128 cases of ex-combatants that have been
victimized and that at this moment are being confirmed by
... authorities," the official said, emphasizing that the deaths were
violent.
The peace agreement, supported by the United Nations and crafted with
the help of several Latin American organizations, led to the disarmament
of around 7,000 combatants and the emergence of the FARC party.
Colombia's right-wing President Duque has been trying to dismantle
the agreement and its peace institutions since his election campaign
last year. Just last month the head of state announced his plans to
amend six articles of the Statutory Law of the Special Jurisdiction for
Peace (JEP), an integral part of accords meant to bring justice to the
country’s 50 year internal conflict.
Samuel David Gonzalez Pushaina, the seven-month-old son of a former
member of the now dissolved FARC Marxist movement was killed during an
ambush
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Social-Human-Rights-Groups-March-Against-State-Crime-20190307-0006.html> on
Monday in northern Colombia.
His father, Carlos Enrique Gonzalez, and mother Sandra Pushaina were
also injured in the attack that took place in the municipality of Maicao
in the department of La Guajira, Colombia. The family, who resides in
Simon Trinidad, had gone to visit a relative in Maicao near the border
with Venezuela.
Strapper added: "The Government rejects any threat or act that affects
the life of any ex-combatant who is trying to reintegrate into society."
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