Killings of Colombia ex-rebels could reach 1,600 by end of 2024 -court
April 28, 2021
3:32 PM CDT
Americas
Reuters
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Some 1,600 former FARC guerrillas will have been murdered by the end of 2024 if current levels of targeted killings continue, Colombia's transitional justice tribunal said on Wednesday.
The government signed a peace deal with the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016, ending the group's part in almost six decades of conflict.
But violence, which the government blames on crime gangs and rebels who reject the accord, besets former guerrillas.
They face high levels of danger, according to a report from the investigative unit of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) tribunal, with some ex-combatants in a "critical" situation in 10 municipalities across Colombia.
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