Four minors of the Murui indigenous people were murdered in the Colombian Amazon by FARC dissidents that they are in a bilateral truce with the government, the Ombudsman denounced on Sunday.
minors they had been forcibly recruited by rebels who departed from the peace pact that disarmed America’s once most powerful guerrilla in 2017, according to the first report from indigenous communities in the area.
The body that monitors human rights confirmed the complaint and specified in a statement that the “four children and adolescents, members of the Murui indigenous community” were executed on the border between the departments of Caquetá and Amazonas (south). “after defecting” from the Carolina Ramírez front, one of the dissident factions of the FARC that joined the bilateral ceasefire proposed by the government on 1 January.
Grouped under the name of Estado Mayor Central de la FARC (EMC), these fronts that did not join the 2017 peace pact and there are about 3,000 fighters A new peace process with the leftist Gustavo Petro government is about to start, despite several violations of the truce.
harsh criticism
Neither the authorities nor the natives have specified the age of the deceased. So far only the name of one of them is known: Luis Alberto Matías Capera, recruited at the end of March in a town in the nearby department of Putumayo and shot on May 17 together with the other three minors.
“Recruit and kill children and adolescents from indigenous communities They’re not exactly goodwill gestures to achieve peace. As well as being clear violations of international humanitarian law (IHL),” the ombudsman said.
In turn, Petro described the multiple homicide as “A heinous crime, a slap to peace” and provided for “measures against these facts”.
Consulted by various journalists via WhatsApp, EMC spokespersons expressed that “no statements will be made on this matter until the information is fully collected” with their fronts in the area.
Colombia is experiencing an armed conflict that persists after the peace deal and pits rebels, drug traffickers and state agents against each other in a protracted war which leaves more than 9 million victims.
Petro, the first leftist president in the history of Colombia, talks with guerrillas, armed groups of paramilitary origin and drug trafficking gangs to put an end to the violence in the world’s largest cocaine producer.
Source: Clarin
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