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On Thursday night, Wilmer Daniel Marín Alarcón left his home in Bello, Antioquia, to make a call. He did not return. At dawn on Friday they found his body wrapped in a mattress that those who murdered him tried to burn.
Marín Alarcón was a former FARC combatant and became the 197th victim of an account that, since the signing of the Peace Agreement, has not been stopped and for which actions are being carried out in various instances.
On the one hand, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) decided to study collective protection measures, both for the reinstated from the Farc and for members of the Public Force who have suffered threats.
Further, the ex-guerrilla party is evaluating whether it requests those same precautionary measures, but before the Inter-American Human Rights System, which has not been decided yet.
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What was already done was to request a visit from that instance to Colombia to review the situation, as confirmed by the party’s lawyer, Diego Martínez. “We have decided to go to the Inter-American System and also to Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. We will request the intervention of the Inter-American Commission and an on-site visit (field visit) to the country to verify that a systematic extermination against ex-combatants is taking place, ”said Martínez.
We will request the intervention of the Inter-American Commission and an on-site visit (field visit) to the country to verify that a systematic extermination against
ex-combatants
A visit of this type implies that a commission of international organizations investigate the circumstances of the reported events and prepare a report that it submits to the System.
The facts that the Commission would know, and which will also be part of the report that the Farc party will present to the JEP at its request in its study of precautionary measures, show an x-ray of what is happening with the security of the ex-guerrillas.
In the accounts of the Farc party, Of the 197 murders, 117 occurred in the current government. Of the total, 193 were men and four women. The first two cases of assassinated ex-combatants were in 2016 and 2019, and the last two, recently: on March 5 Astrid Conde was assassinated in Bogotá and on March 17, on the border between San Vicente del Caguán and La Macarena, Belle Ester Carrillo , along with ex-combatant Irnel Flórez Forero.
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Even after the curfews and isolation from the coronavirus pandemic began, the killings continued. Five have occurred since March 21, when Albeiro Gallego Mesa was assassinated in La Macarena. On April 13, in Ataco, Tolima, Carlos Alberto Castillo was assassinated; on April 15, in Uribe, Meta, Jhon Jairo Londoño; on April 17, in Urrao, Antioquia, Rigoberto García Restrepo; and on May 7, Wilmer Marín Alarcón.
Beyond the murders, the Farc has also registered 14 enforced disappearances and 39 attempted murders.
A particular concern is that many of the municipalities where these events occur coincide with the territories where the Development Plans with a Territorial Approach (PDET) are implemented. “It is not acceptable that in this type of territory, highly covered by the Public Force, organized criminal structures, instead of disarticulating, have been growing,” says Fagua.
It is not acceptable that in this type of territory, highly covered by the Public Force, organized criminal structures, instead of disarticulating, have been growing
This is the case of Ituango, Antioquia, since 12 ex-combatants linked to the Territorial Area in the Santa Lucía district have been killed. In addition, it has become a ghost town, since more than 100 people have been displaced by threats. There are at least six illegal structures in the area.
Likewise, municipalities where murders have occurred in Cauca (Algeria, Caldono, Buenos Aires, Miranda), Nariño (Ricaurte and Barbacoas), Antioquia (Dabeiba) and Chocó (Riosucio and Jiguamiandó), are of interest to the JEP because they intersect with their territorial cases.
This was, in fact, one of the reasons why that justice began the study of measures. According to magistrate Reinere Jaramillo to this newspaperWith the murder of ex-combatants, the victims’ right to the truth is also at risk.
The Prosecutor’s Office has reported to the Farc party 228 cases that include threats and attacks, which for Fagua is underreporting. Of these, 103 are in the investigation stage and in 26 there is a court ruling, which ensures that there is impunity of 89%. For the Prosecutor’s Office, the clarification exceeds 50%, a figure that includes the cases in which there is an alleged perpetrator. “Those who are responsible for determining responsibility is the judges by sentence,” Fagua questions. So they do not agree with this clarification figure.
The Farc party insists the State to implement protection policies contained in the agreement. Meanwhile, the security problem of ex-combatants is analyzed in the JEP and could reach international instances.
‘State is coming to PDET zones’: Archila
Deputy prosecutor Martha Mancera said this week that 75% of murders of ex-Farc occurred in areas with disputes by drug trafficking corridors. The presidential adviser for Stabilization and Consolidation, Emilio Archila, acknowledges that these mostly coincide with PDET municipalities.
He said that it is important to understand that the implementation of the PDETs is going on for 20 months in the 170 municipalities most affected by violence and poverty, which they cover a third of the territory and 15% of the country’s population.
He added that the arrival of the State in those areas has concentrated all the time and effort of the Government, represented, for example, that last year in Catatumbo more was invested than in the previous 16 years.
It is false that the Government has not done everything in its power to protect them
He also pointed out that more than 250 protection schemes have been approved, 12 in the last week, and that none of these people has been affected. “It is false that the government has not done everything available to protect them,” he said.
Regarding the measures that the JEP is studying, he says that they are welcome and that he hopes that any decision will stem from strengthening, if possible, what exists.
His opinion changes on the possibility of taking the case to the Inter-American System: “That would imply reaching the conclusion that the State is not doing what it should.” He says that both the Government and the justice system – including the JEP – and the supervisory bodies are acting.
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