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Former guerrilla chief Milton de Jesús Toncel, known as ‘Joaquín Gómez’, admitted this Tuesday to the JEP the recruitment of minors by the FARC. He assured that they are willing to be accountable and ask for forgiveness.
“I am willing to recognize, without ambiguity and without euphemisms, forced recruitment, a crime for which, as a political organization that emerged from the agreement, we are willing to be held accountable, asking for forgiveness from the victims and society”, Held.
Before this statement, the victims spoke. Luz Mayler Gasca says, for example, that the damage done to them is for life.
Upon listening to the former guerrilla chief, she acknowledges that her skin crawled and the memories of when she was recruited in 2007 by the 46th front of the FARC returned.
“I was 14 years old at that time, they took me there to have relations with someone older than me, I was raped”, dice.
José Antonio Vitona was recruited at 13 by the Jacobo Arenas column, he was for 14 years in the extinct guerrilla.
“The victims have not yet recovered. I still can’t find that childhood, my childhood is still lost ”, state.
For those who suffered forced recruitment, this is a beginning, but they say that there is much truth to be learned; like the graves of those minors who died and whose whereabouts are unknown.
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