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The government of President Iván Duque came out on Thursday to respond to statements by former President Juan Manuel Santos, regarding the recent massacres that have taken place in the country.
Indeed, before the United Nations Global Governance Forum UN75, the ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner assured that part of the problem that Colombia is facing in various ways, including public order, is related to the lack of implementation of the agreements. of peace.
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And although he did not refer to any specific expression, Santos did warn tactically that the Duque government’s narrative around the massacres also generates discontent among citizens.
“It is absurd that the government tries to change reality by just changing the name of what is happening,” said the former president. And he added that, in his opinion, young people should take to the streets to demand the prompt implementation of the agreements with the former FARC.
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This statement generated an immediate response from the House of Nariño, who delegated the Peace Commissioner, Miguel Ceballos, to carry it out.
The first thing that came out to notice is that the expression “collective homicide”, to which Santos was referring to, was coined by the previous Government and that it even did so in a normative way, which gives support to its use since government.
“It was President Juan Manuel Santos himself in his government who, through a resolution, 004 of 2013, ordered the production of what is called today the white book of statistics on the security and defense sector, which was published in 2014 and that any Colombian can consult. There, on page 11, collective homicide is defined as the murder of 4 or more people who are in a defenseless state, “the Commissioner emphasized.
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The Defense Minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, has reiterated that the Armed Forces are ready to prevent and respond to the attacks of illegal groups.
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And he added: “The one who really wanted to change the terms was the government of President Santos, changing the word massacre to collective homicide. President Iván Duque Márquez has spoken of massacres when he has to.”
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EL TIEMPO consulted the book referred to by Ceballos and, in effect, on page 11 of the same one can read the following definition of the expression “collective homicide:” It is understood as those events in which four (4) or more defenseless people in the same place, at the same time and by the same perpetrators; Those cases where people belonged to subversive groups, criminal gangs, organized and common crime, or if they were part of the Public Force, are not counted. “
A few weeks ago the country witnessed a strong debate regarding the use of the expressions “collective homicide”, after President Duque and his Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, used that expression to refer to the series of murders that only in one week, more than 17 people were killed in different territories.
In fact, among those atrocious events were the deaths of several uniformed men. In any case, President Duque warned at the time that they were all massacres and that his reference to “collective homicides” was due to the legal connotation that this term gives to this type of event.
For this reason, Ceballos’ statements this Thursday are about the origin of what was once a controversial expression in the midst of the difficult public order situation that hit the country.
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