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The head of the Farc party, of the former guerrilla of the same name, Rodrigo Londoño, spoke this Tuesday in an interview with W Radio about the letter published this Monday in which they make a harsh recognition of the horrors of the kidnappings that they committed in the conflict armed.
In the conversation, Londoño, known in the war as Timochenko and last commander of the demobilized guerrilla, announced that in the coming months they will meet more truths about the Farc that, as he said, “are going to have a lot of impact.”
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Inquired about sensitive issues such as abuse and forced abortions, Londoño acknowledged that these practices were perpetrated in the conflict. “Of course there were abuses, and now that you are collecting information, you realize that there were abuses in many regions”Londoño said.
Regarding forced abortions, he said: “I do not understand why that happened. I answered the magistrate: with great shame we must admit that it was. I have spoken with many women. It must be recognized as a crime,” Londoño said in the interview. .
Londoño said that there are even facts that he has been learning about in these four years. And he went ahead: “They will say: four years and you hardly find out? That’s right, ”he said, and argued that in the dynamics of the conflict they did not know everything that was happening in all the guerrilla units.
However, also He said that “from that to saying that it was the policy of the Farc there is a space, that was not the policy of the Farc. The facts that I knew were strongly punished, “he said.
This statement was later disputed by Congressman Jaime Felipe Lozada, who was kidnapped and whose family suffered several attacks by the Farc, since for him it was a systematic policy of the guerrilla. Lozada said they are still waiting for the whole truth.
Londoño said that Monday’s letter, in which they speak of specific cases and also refer to the events as “kidnapping” and not as retentions – which has been harshly criticized by the victims and sectors of public opinion – It was written as a result of hearing the hearing of contribution to the truth of Ingrid Betancourt, a former kidnapped presidential candidate, before the Truth Commission.
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According to the narrative, this Monday the former members of the FARC secretariat met and listened to Betancourt’s narration. “That had a lot of impact, a testimony like those has to move anyone’s heart,” he said.
In reference to the issue of recruitment of minors, he pointed out that in the case before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) there are seven moments, and so far, with the individual versions, they are in the first of those moments. The next one, which they are already preparing, is the collective version.
“We were pressured a lot to do it before in the media, which I always refused,” said Londoño about these acknowledgments, because they don’t want to “make a show of this issue.”
Likewise, Londoño pointed out that it is not the first time that the Farc has recognized facts such as kidnapping, a case in which, in fact, in 2019 they already presented a collective version of recognition before the JEP in a public hearing. “We have been saying it in other ways and at other times”, said.
He also said that when he assumed the command of the Farc, after the death of ‘Alfonso Cano’, he realized that the guerrilla was in “a process of lumpenisation, of internal decomposition.”
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According to him, he began to send circulars to the units to face this decomposition. He gave as an example that he recently spoke with a victim – “I admire the generosity of the victims,” he said – who She told him that she was raped by a member of the Farc when she was 11 years old. He also told her that the man later deserted and murdered her mother.
Faced with the press versions that indicated that in his recent appearance before the JEP he did not acknowledge the facts in case 07, about recruitment, he categorically rejected having denied it. “Another thing is that they want you to say what you want,” he said.
“If I have to go to jail for 20 years, I will go, but I will not leave a legacy to my son of admitting that he raped girls and boys, when I never did,” he said, referring to the difference between collective recognition of facts committed in the Farc and the individual recognitions that correspond to each member of that former guerrilla.
(Also: That the Farc recognize kidnapping and ask for forgiveness is a good step: Santos)
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