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Reintegration of Colombia's former guerrillas threatened: UN
by Adriaan Alsema October 15, 2021
The reintegration of demobilized FARC guerrillas is being threatened by ongoing violence and the failure of Colombia’s government to provide farmland, the United Nations said Thursday.
Speaking before the UN Security Council, mission chief Carlos Ruiz urged the government of President Ivan Duque to fully implement the 2016 peace deal.
The government’s selective implementation is “insufficient to deactivate the factors that underpinned decades of armed conflict and to achieve the Agreement’s transformative potential,” said Ruiz.
The UN chief stressed that attacks on former FARC fighters and failures to implement the peace deal are threatening the reintegration of the 13,000 former guerrillas who are taking part in the peace process.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/reintegration-of-colombias-former-guerrillas-threatened-un/
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Such a tragically familiar story, extending generations into the past, as previous dissidents, or suspected dissidents, or supporters of human rights are repeatedly assassinated while trying to live in peace, assassinated by death squads operating at the direction of right-wing politicians, or military officials. The members of some paramilitary groups (death squads) are often previous military people.)
