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The exceptional witnesses of the negotiations in Havana between the Colombian State and the then FARC guerrilla say that the most difficult moments happened when the insurgents launched a question that remained gravitating in the environment: “When we are without weapons, who Will you guarantee our lives? “
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This past weekend, Juan de Jesús Monroy Ayala, known as Albeiro Suárez, was assassinated in the rural area of La Uribe (Meta). They shot him together with one of his bodyguards, Luis Alexander Largo (Mandela).
This is one more death in the long list of ex-combatants who believed in the signing of the Peace Agreement and who today are in a grave. There are already 234 ex-guerrillas killed, 146 of them under the current government.
His case, however, is different and with unforeseeable consequences in the political sphere. Why? President Iván Duque himself had promised to protect him.
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In effect, Monroy was not only one of the most characterized leaders of the new Farc party but, due to his conviction that politics without arms was the best way to build a different country, he was the one chosen in many meetings to express the demands of community.
For this reason, he participated in the Building Country workshop in Villavicencio in October 2018. There, The former guerrilla denounced the conditions of insecurity, made a dramatic X-ray of the complex risks that beset them and demanded with great frankness from the Head of State protection and guarantees for the implementation of the Peace Agreement.
Duque, for his part, took the microphone and promised before the cameras that “in order for them to make this successful transition, they will have the protection of the State.”
Despite this, Monroy was killed. That explains the sentiment in the statement of Emilio José Archila, Presidential Advisor for Stabilization and Consolidation, when reporting the fact: “It is sad news,” he said. And then he listed all the virtues of this man in the way of building beneficial projects for his region, particularly in rural development.
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Monroy was a member of the national leadership of the Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común (FARC).
In fact, the community had entrusted him with leading the reincorporation process in the department of Meta and “He had won the backing and support of the communities in the region that had adopted him as their natural leader,” according to this movement in a statement.
“He was a spokesperson at the hearing held by the Special Peace Jurisdiction on August 22 to analyze the security problems of former guerrillas in the eastern part of the country,” the text added.
For his part, Luís Alexander Largo was his bodyguard, a member of the protection program of the specialized sub-directorate of the UNP. “Two men decidedly committed to peace and progress in the region,” says the Farc party.
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That explains the outrage in this party, which says: “The series of murders against the peace signatories occurs in the context of a government that maintains an complicit silence, surely convinced that these murders favor its purpose of preventing the consolidation of peace, as is the express aspiration of his party, the Democratic Center ”.
For them, “these murders are not isolated events before the attack against the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, the Truth Clarification Commission and the simulation of the implementation of the Agreement that we have been denouncing.”
As they interpret in the Farc party, it is about “a convergence of factors” that “has ended up uniting in its purposes the extreme right that today occupies the House of Nariño with those who betrayed the Peace Agreement, turning the former guerrillas into targets. of hatreds and petty interests of both extremes ”.
The reaction in another case would not have had the media impact that it has had in this case due to the promise that was recorded by the Head of State.
Thus, for example, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) regretted the fact.
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“Our condolences to his family and the community in reincorporation. We express our total rejection of actions that threaten everyone, “said the international organization.
“Monroy Ayala was a key person in the implementation of the reincorporation and environmental protection project, Environments for Peace,” said the Norwegian Embassy in Colombia.
“It is urgent to strengthen the protection of those who laid down their arms. Our condolences to family members and the entire population in the process of reincorporation of the region,” added the embassy.
So is. This is not just another crime. In this case, the impact is international, which again puts on the table the tremendous difficulties for the National Government to show in reality, as the Foreign Minister said at the UN, that the commitment to implement the agreement is not just words.
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