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<h1 class="reader-title">Colombia: FARC Party Denounces 128
Killings of Ex-militants</h1>
Published 16 April 2019</div>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>"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. </p>
<p>"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. </p>
<p>The FARC representative urged <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Colombian-President-Seeks-To-Weaken-Peace-Accord-Court--20190311-0002.html"
target="_blank">President Ivan Duque</a>'s government
to act immediately to end the killings of ex-combatants.</p>
<p>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<a
href="http://www.reincorporacion.gov.co/en/agency"
target="_blank"> Agency for Reincorporation and
Normalization</a>, Andres Stapper.</p>
<p>"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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Samuel David Gonzalez Pushaina, the seven-month-old son
of a former member of the now dissolved FARC Marxist
movement was <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Social-Human-Rights-Groups-March-Against-State-Crime-20190307-0006.html"
target="_blank">killed during an ambush</a> on
Monday in northern Colombia.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Strapper added: "The Government rejects any threat or
act that affects the life of any ex-combatant who is
trying to reintegrate into society." </p>
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