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<h1 id="reader-title">FARC Commander's Son Killed in Double
Murder as Colombia Peace Deal Gives Way to Terror<br>
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May 10, 2017<br>
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The son of a commander from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia, FARC, has fallen victim to paramilitary violence
alongside a friend in a brutal double homicide. The murders,
which occurred in Argelia, southern Cauca, raise yet more
questions about the implementation of the peace deal signed last
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<p>The killings occurred in the early hours of Sunday when
Yonnier Sujeimer Rosero Muñoz, the son of an
assassinated commander of the 60th front of the FARC,
and his friend, Pablo Erazo Mamian, were together. The
two young men were fired upon 17 times by a gunman
equipped with an automatic rifle, according to officials
speaking on condition of anonymity.</p>
<p>Seriously injured, the victims were then executed as
they lay prone on the ground. The perpetrator then fled
to the nearby jungle.</p>
<p>Relatives say that the two young men made their living
as farm workers in the town of El Sinai, where they were
known by the endearing nicknames “Cotorra” and
“Amoniaco.”</p>
<p>Communal leaders say that the violence is the outcome
of the arrival of armed groups in the region which
followed the decamping of FARC fighters stipulated by
last year's peace deal.</p>
<p>While FARC combatants agreed to comprehensively hand
over arms to United Nations officials, ending the long
conflict between revolutionary insurgents and the state,
the vacuum created by the FARC departure allowed for the
entrance of armed right-wing militias, mercenaries and
paramilitary brigades.</p>
<p>Rather than peace and social justice, communities are
instead witnessing right-wing terror committed by
non-state actors such as the Gaitanista Self-Defense
Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish acronym AGC,
and other groups. Many of these armed civilian
paramilitaries stocked their arsenals thanks to Plan
Colombia, a 1999 counterinsurgency initiative that saw
the U.S. pour billions of dollars into the country for
the purpose of further militarizing the region. The year
2016 witnessed the blossoming of such far-right
paramilitary and narco-paramilitary groups, who extended
their regional presence and visibility.</p>
<p>Paramilitary groups in Colombia are often linked to
powerful oligarchs within the country as well as
multinational companies seeking to secure economic
interests in resource-rich territories. Prominent
politicians like former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe
are suspected of having supported paramilitary death
squads which helped depopulate areas that were then
subject to <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Colombia-Denies-UN-Claim-of-Paramilitary-Linked-Violence-20170502-0038.html">illegal
land-grabs</a>.</p>
<p>“In post-conflict zones it is necessary to look at the
rearrangement of legal and illegal forces,” Cauca
government secretary Alejandra Miller told Colombian
newspaper El Pais. “It was to be expected that violent
events of this nature would increase, and Cauca is no
stranger to (these events).”</p>
<p>The western agricultural province of Cauca is coveted
as an ideal location for growing coca plants and opium
poppies that fuel a still-booming drug trade. One of the
more violence-plagued provinces in the South American
nation, Cauca once boasted a presence of nearly 7,000
FARC combatants, according to reports.</p>
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