This content was published on March 24, 2022 4:23 p.m. March 24, 2022 4:23 p.m
Bogotá, 24 March (EFE). Two excombatants of the extinct FARC guerrillas were murdered in less than a week in the department of Cauca (southwest); the youngest, indigenous peace signer Jorge Canchi Ramos, was assassinated this Wednesday in the municipality of El Tambo.
Canchi’s body was found Wednesday night in the village of 20 de Julio in the municipality of El Tambo by area residents who turned over his body to the Playa Rica Community Action Board.
The National Common Reincorporation Corporation (CNRC) said in a statement that Canchi, a 42yearold Aboriginal man, “was assaulted with a firearm.” According to local media reports, they left a cardboard box justifying his murder next to the excombatant’s body.
According to the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz), 11 peace signatories have been murdered with Canchi since the beginning of the year.
Since 2020, the ombudsman’s office has issued early warnings for El Tambo, as well as for the municipalities of Argelia and Balboa, where “the actions of illegal armed groups” responsible for “threats and other serious violations of human rights defenders” continue, rights, social leaders and signers of the peace agreement “.
The groups present in the area are dissidents from the nowdefunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARCEP), notably the Carlos Patiño Front of the Western Coordination Command and the Diomer Cortés Front of the Second Marquetalia, and there is also a National Liberation Army presence (ELN).
“This killing comes on top of acts of violence against peace signers, which have been worsening across the country,” lamented the CNRC, recalling that a few days ago it denounced the murder of Domingo Mancilla in Guapi, a municipality in the Colombian Pacific Has. which shows the lack of guarantees of life that the community has in the process of reintegration by the government.
“Despite the pain and indignation, they will not be able to stop us in the fight for peace,” said Rodrigo Londoño, former commander and leader of the Comunes party that emerged from the demobilization of the guerrillas, on his social networks lamented “deeply” the fact.
According to UN SecretaryGeneral António Guterres’ recent report to the Security Council on the UN verification mission in Colombia, “the incessant violence against excombatants continues to hamper the consolidation of peace.”
Since the signing of the peace agreement, 310 excombatants have been killed. EFE
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