Unacceptable death of a political prisoner
At dawn on September 23, Roberto Sepulveda Muñoz, known in our organization as Arturo, and whom we affectionately called Catire, passed away at San Rafael Hospital in the city of Tunja.
Roberto was deprived of liberty for more than 9 years, and was held in Barne prison.
For several years now he was suffering from a serious deterioration in his health, which was not treated properly, which caused a chronic bronchopneumonia.
Despite numerous humanitarian requests for his release, nine months after an Amnesty Law was passed, two regulatory decrees, an administrative resolution appointing him a peace manager and multiple commitments from the national government, he could not obtain his release.
Under this circumstance, we demand that immediate action be taken and that a thorough investigation be established to determine the actual causes of the death of political prisoner Roberto Sepúlveda Muñoz and to order the criminal and disciplinary sanctions of the case.
It is evident not only the responsibility for the provision of the medical service to political prisoners, but also the constant obstacles and procrastination that are presented by the justice operators, making their freedom impossible.
We urge the authorities to immediately guarantee medical care for comrades Bernardo Mosquera Machado, Jose Angel Parra Bernal and Jan Carlos Amaya, who have been presenting a complex medical picture.
We call on the national government, headed by President Juan Manuel Santos, to establish responsibilities before this repeated and infamous situation and to definitively and without further excuse, release all our comrades who still remain in prison.
http://farc-epeace.org/peace-process/ne ... soner.html
this toothless pleading is starting to anger me. How could FARC think it would be different this time? Their enemies are the same as those who massacred thousands when FARC tried to make peace in the 80s.
Colombia
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"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."
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Colombian Military Kills FARC Dissident in Airstrike
Colombian Air Force led strike. | Photo: EFE
Published 28 September 2017 (2 hours 31 minutes ago)
Santos said the assassination was a message that the government wouldn't allow people to disagree with the peace agreement and continue as rebels.
The Colombian military has killed a dissident FARC member known as Euclides Mora during an airstrike in the southeast rainforest of the country, President Juan Manuel Santos has said.
Santos said the assassination of the head of the dissident force was a message that the government wouldn't allow people to disagree with the peace agreement and continue as rebels.
"Armed Forces killed Euclides, FARC dissident, in Guaviare," Santos said on Twitter. "Message is clear: surrender, otherwise, prison or the grave awaits."
The Ministry of Defense said Euclides Mora was part of the FARC rebels for 32 years and "was one of the main leaders of the organization" since 2005.
On December 2016, the leaders of the FARC removed him from its ranks, as well as other members such as Gentil Duarte, John Cuarenta, Giovanny Chuspas and Julian Chollo, who were part of the leadership of the organization.
Several rebels opposed the disarmament process and the terms of the peace deal with the government, for which they were expelled for not following the directive of the FARC high command.
The air force claimed that Mora led more than 25 men and participated in drug trafficking, adding that it's not clear how many groups may still be in the Colombian jungle.
FARC members are presently transitioning back into society and have created a political party called the Revolutionary Alternative Forces of the Common, maintaining the same initials of their prior name.
The United Nations has confirmed that all weapons previously owned by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, were delivered and later destroyed as part of the peace agreement.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ ... -0007.html
Divide & conquer. Then conquer some more.
Colombian Air Force led strike. | Photo: EFE
Published 28 September 2017 (2 hours 31 minutes ago)
Santos said the assassination was a message that the government wouldn't allow people to disagree with the peace agreement and continue as rebels.
The Colombian military has killed a dissident FARC member known as Euclides Mora during an airstrike in the southeast rainforest of the country, President Juan Manuel Santos has said.
Santos said the assassination of the head of the dissident force was a message that the government wouldn't allow people to disagree with the peace agreement and continue as rebels.
"Armed Forces killed Euclides, FARC dissident, in Guaviare," Santos said on Twitter. "Message is clear: surrender, otherwise, prison or the grave awaits."
The Ministry of Defense said Euclides Mora was part of the FARC rebels for 32 years and "was one of the main leaders of the organization" since 2005.
On December 2016, the leaders of the FARC removed him from its ranks, as well as other members such as Gentil Duarte, John Cuarenta, Giovanny Chuspas and Julian Chollo, who were part of the leadership of the organization.
Several rebels opposed the disarmament process and the terms of the peace deal with the government, for which they were expelled for not following the directive of the FARC high command.
The air force claimed that Mora led more than 25 men and participated in drug trafficking, adding that it's not clear how many groups may still be in the Colombian jungle.
FARC members are presently transitioning back into society and have created a political party called the Revolutionary Alternative Forces of the Common, maintaining the same initials of their prior name.
The United Nations has confirmed that all weapons previously owned by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, were delivered and later destroyed as part of the peace agreement.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ ... -0007.html
Divide & conquer. Then conquer some more.
"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."
Re: Colombia
What has been promised and signed must be implemented, President Santos
The war and violence that have lashed the way of the people since the beginning of time, do not correspond to what many call human nature.
In each one of the historical stages that followed that of the primitive communities, enormous conflicts have erupted from the eagerness of the ones to take to the work and wealth of the others. Men and women of all ages have converted peace into the supreme good.
They strive to achieve it and do not allowed it to be snatched, because they have learned that after desolation and general suffering there is always an interest that makes big profits, and acts as the main stoker of hatred and provocation. The national experience is exemplary in that regard.
Our longing for peace runs against greed. After more than half a century of struggle and millions of victims, the power of capital and the latifundio grew in geometric proportion, as if the conflict had been a happy business opportunity.
The flag of peace is at the same time a banner of social claim, justice, equality, respect for the humanity of the other.
The Final Agreement put an end to that long war and at the same time opened horizons for the effective participation of the eternally excluded, offered a solution to the most ancient inequities and attention to the real causes of old problems.
It also created conditions for the productive, political and social reincorporation of the guerrillas, within the general framework of respect for the rights of victims.
In addition to being historical, this Agreement became a solemn pact between the Colombian State and the FARC-EP guerrillas. Not only because the Constitutional Court made its the guidelines for its endorsement, which was positive by overwhelming majority in the Congress of the Republic, but because the international community recognized, applauded and incorporated as its the peace signed in Colombia, and committed to work hard to guarantee it.
Today, Mr. Henry Acosta, facilitator of the peace talks, gives a wide-ranging account of his distress for what he calls the total Non-implementation of the Peace Agreement. The pathetic and pessimistic tone that inspires him is evident.
We differ from him in that we are revolutionaries, we will not burst into tears at the spilled milk. We will fight endlessly for the fulfillment of the official word.
This is the fair thing to do. It is worth recalling that both parties celebrated on May 29 the so-called Agreement on a Road Map for the fulfillment of the obligations derived from the Final Agreement, in which, among other obligations, is included that of providing minimum guarantees that the National Government was required to make effective for the FARC -EP before the culmination of the abandonment of arms. To this day this has yet to be fulfilled.
I highlighted among other obligations: "The National Government will take the necessary measures to ensure that members of the FARC-EP who are on the OACP accredited lists leave prison and / or remain on parole before the completion of the abandonment of arms". (1.1.1.)
“Throughout the national territory of all arrest warrants of members of the FARC-EP from the moment they had left their weapons and had been accredited by the OACP will be suspended” (1.1.2).
Granting of amnesty de iure via presidential resolution to all members of duly accredited militias”.(1.1.4)
"JEP Statutory Law. In the text filed in Congress will be introduced a rule on the suspension of all sentences against members of the FARC-EP or persons accused of being members, as established in AL 001 of 2017 (...)
The National Government undertakes that the Statutory Law of the JEP will be approved by Congress respecting the Final Agreement and the draft text approved by the National Government and the FARC-EP. " (1.1.6).
"Suspension of arrest warrants for the purpose of extradition and revocation of assurance measures in all extradition proceedings with respect to persons accredited by the OACP, pursuant to AL 001 of 2017, dated June 10, 2017". (1.1.9)
"The constitutional reforms necessary to guarantee the operation of the Special Investigation Unit referred to in point number 74 of the JEP agreement, in accordance with the provisions of the Final Agreement, shall be carried out." (1.2.1.)
"Within a period of no more than 15 days, the National Government will appoint the deputy director of the Special Branch for Security and Protection of the National Protection Unit (UNP)." (1.2.4.) ...
"The Elite Corps of the National Police shall be set up, in accordance with the terms of the Final Agreement, by June 15, 2017 at the latest." (1.2.5).
"Between the end of the individual abandonment of arms that will conclude on June 20, 2017 and the issue of the presidential amnesty de iure for those members of the FARC-EP that have left their personal arm, there cannot be more than 10 days”. (1.4 par. 3)
The FARC-EP, as it is their costume, have respected the terms of the abandonment of arms. What then explains the official laziness to honor the word given?
Optimistic is the facilitator when he states that the National Government promotes individual reincorporation, delivering 8 million [Colombian pesos] to each former guerrilla. There is not a single combatant in these conditions, nor a single collective project approved to date.
The elemental allotment of land is denied so that productive projects can be advanced, and it is stated that only an average of one thousand individual projects will be approved per year.
Thousands of former guerrillas are excluded from the single allocation of two million pesos and are not receiving the monthly benefit of ninety percent of minimum wage. Territorial Areas of Training and Reincorporation are notified that they will be left without basic food or services. Our people go through the most incredible difficulties to have access to health services.
Our people remain deprived of their freedom, die or get ill in prison due to State indolence. We move around fearing of being arrested because the President has yet to issue the amnesty de iure, despite the fact that the ten days maximum time has already passed ten times, and the system still does not show the lifting of arrest warrants.
The Congress of the Republic is involved in the issuing of the rules on political participation and Special Jurisdiction for Peace, while the Attorney General of the Nation is engaged on a smear campaign against the FARC, and suspiciously ignores the more than fifteen thousand files regarding paramilitarism piled up and awaiting his action.
The smell of decay filling the air after the scandal of Dr. Martinez's anti-corruption tsar leaves much to think about.
The hungry jaws of the ultra-right enemy of peace are now joined by the American ambassador. Everybody hoped that the call for reconciliation made by Pope Francisco, who sowed so much sympathy and hope in the heart of the Colombians, would succeed against the revenge feelings of the lords of war and their greed. Unfortunately their hatred continues.
The great FARC family feels unease and indignant. Thousands of fighters, militiamen, clandestine supporters, political militants, followers and communities who believed in good faith in the seriousness of the Colombian State, call this leadership to express a strong position.
The military discipline of war was always a pledge of subordination. With this gone we are left with our ability of persuasion. For this, facts are needed, President Santos.
Colombia finds itself at a historical crossroad. It finds itself debating between the paths of peace, democracy and social justice outlined by the Havana Agreements, and the possibility of sinking in the wake of violence as a result of its violation and non-fulfillment.
We call on the international community, the United Nations, the European Union, CELAC, UNASUR, the Vatican, countries that have been guarantors and have accompanied the process to act and make the great work of peace staying afloat.
We Colombians cannot remain passive at this grave juncture. Generations that have not known a day of peace are obliged to leave their children a country without terror or war, a true homeland.
A minority enriched with the revenues of death and fear tries to make reconciliation impossible, we must all prevent this from happening.
What has been promised and signed must be implemented, President Santos.
This is the time of peace, the whole world is claiming it.
Timoleón Jiménez
La Habana, September 25, 2017.
http://farc-epeace.org/peace-process/ne ... antos.html
Comrade, you are so fucked.
The war and violence that have lashed the way of the people since the beginning of time, do not correspond to what many call human nature.
In each one of the historical stages that followed that of the primitive communities, enormous conflicts have erupted from the eagerness of the ones to take to the work and wealth of the others. Men and women of all ages have converted peace into the supreme good.
They strive to achieve it and do not allowed it to be snatched, because they have learned that after desolation and general suffering there is always an interest that makes big profits, and acts as the main stoker of hatred and provocation. The national experience is exemplary in that regard.
Our longing for peace runs against greed. After more than half a century of struggle and millions of victims, the power of capital and the latifundio grew in geometric proportion, as if the conflict had been a happy business opportunity.
The flag of peace is at the same time a banner of social claim, justice, equality, respect for the humanity of the other.
The Final Agreement put an end to that long war and at the same time opened horizons for the effective participation of the eternally excluded, offered a solution to the most ancient inequities and attention to the real causes of old problems.
It also created conditions for the productive, political and social reincorporation of the guerrillas, within the general framework of respect for the rights of victims.
In addition to being historical, this Agreement became a solemn pact between the Colombian State and the FARC-EP guerrillas. Not only because the Constitutional Court made its the guidelines for its endorsement, which was positive by overwhelming majority in the Congress of the Republic, but because the international community recognized, applauded and incorporated as its the peace signed in Colombia, and committed to work hard to guarantee it.
Today, Mr. Henry Acosta, facilitator of the peace talks, gives a wide-ranging account of his distress for what he calls the total Non-implementation of the Peace Agreement. The pathetic and pessimistic tone that inspires him is evident.
We differ from him in that we are revolutionaries, we will not burst into tears at the spilled milk. We will fight endlessly for the fulfillment of the official word.
This is the fair thing to do. It is worth recalling that both parties celebrated on May 29 the so-called Agreement on a Road Map for the fulfillment of the obligations derived from the Final Agreement, in which, among other obligations, is included that of providing minimum guarantees that the National Government was required to make effective for the FARC -EP before the culmination of the abandonment of arms. To this day this has yet to be fulfilled.
I highlighted among other obligations: "The National Government will take the necessary measures to ensure that members of the FARC-EP who are on the OACP accredited lists leave prison and / or remain on parole before the completion of the abandonment of arms". (1.1.1.)
“Throughout the national territory of all arrest warrants of members of the FARC-EP from the moment they had left their weapons and had been accredited by the OACP will be suspended” (1.1.2).
Granting of amnesty de iure via presidential resolution to all members of duly accredited militias”.(1.1.4)
"JEP Statutory Law. In the text filed in Congress will be introduced a rule on the suspension of all sentences against members of the FARC-EP or persons accused of being members, as established in AL 001 of 2017 (...)
The National Government undertakes that the Statutory Law of the JEP will be approved by Congress respecting the Final Agreement and the draft text approved by the National Government and the FARC-EP. " (1.1.6).
"Suspension of arrest warrants for the purpose of extradition and revocation of assurance measures in all extradition proceedings with respect to persons accredited by the OACP, pursuant to AL 001 of 2017, dated June 10, 2017". (1.1.9)
"The constitutional reforms necessary to guarantee the operation of the Special Investigation Unit referred to in point number 74 of the JEP agreement, in accordance with the provisions of the Final Agreement, shall be carried out." (1.2.1.)
"Within a period of no more than 15 days, the National Government will appoint the deputy director of the Special Branch for Security and Protection of the National Protection Unit (UNP)." (1.2.4.) ...
"The Elite Corps of the National Police shall be set up, in accordance with the terms of the Final Agreement, by June 15, 2017 at the latest." (1.2.5).
"Between the end of the individual abandonment of arms that will conclude on June 20, 2017 and the issue of the presidential amnesty de iure for those members of the FARC-EP that have left their personal arm, there cannot be more than 10 days”. (1.4 par. 3)
The FARC-EP, as it is their costume, have respected the terms of the abandonment of arms. What then explains the official laziness to honor the word given?
Optimistic is the facilitator when he states that the National Government promotes individual reincorporation, delivering 8 million [Colombian pesos] to each former guerrilla. There is not a single combatant in these conditions, nor a single collective project approved to date.
The elemental allotment of land is denied so that productive projects can be advanced, and it is stated that only an average of one thousand individual projects will be approved per year.
Thousands of former guerrillas are excluded from the single allocation of two million pesos and are not receiving the monthly benefit of ninety percent of minimum wage. Territorial Areas of Training and Reincorporation are notified that they will be left without basic food or services. Our people go through the most incredible difficulties to have access to health services.
Our people remain deprived of their freedom, die or get ill in prison due to State indolence. We move around fearing of being arrested because the President has yet to issue the amnesty de iure, despite the fact that the ten days maximum time has already passed ten times, and the system still does not show the lifting of arrest warrants.
The Congress of the Republic is involved in the issuing of the rules on political participation and Special Jurisdiction for Peace, while the Attorney General of the Nation is engaged on a smear campaign against the FARC, and suspiciously ignores the more than fifteen thousand files regarding paramilitarism piled up and awaiting his action.
The smell of decay filling the air after the scandal of Dr. Martinez's anti-corruption tsar leaves much to think about.
The hungry jaws of the ultra-right enemy of peace are now joined by the American ambassador. Everybody hoped that the call for reconciliation made by Pope Francisco, who sowed so much sympathy and hope in the heart of the Colombians, would succeed against the revenge feelings of the lords of war and their greed. Unfortunately their hatred continues.
The great FARC family feels unease and indignant. Thousands of fighters, militiamen, clandestine supporters, political militants, followers and communities who believed in good faith in the seriousness of the Colombian State, call this leadership to express a strong position.
The military discipline of war was always a pledge of subordination. With this gone we are left with our ability of persuasion. For this, facts are needed, President Santos.
Colombia finds itself at a historical crossroad. It finds itself debating between the paths of peace, democracy and social justice outlined by the Havana Agreements, and the possibility of sinking in the wake of violence as a result of its violation and non-fulfillment.
We call on the international community, the United Nations, the European Union, CELAC, UNASUR, the Vatican, countries that have been guarantors and have accompanied the process to act and make the great work of peace staying afloat.
We Colombians cannot remain passive at this grave juncture. Generations that have not known a day of peace are obliged to leave their children a country without terror or war, a true homeland.
A minority enriched with the revenues of death and fear tries to make reconciliation impossible, we must all prevent this from happening.
What has been promised and signed must be implemented, President Santos.
This is the time of peace, the whole world is claiming it.
Timoleón Jiménez
La Habana, September 25, 2017.
http://farc-epeace.org/peace-process/ne ... antos.html
Comrade, you are so fucked.
"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."
Re: Colombia
No shit! Even with the drunken translator notwithstanding, this was a completely non-materialist diatribe. It-made-no-sense!Comrade, you are so fucked.
" If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism." Lenin, 1916
Re: Colombia
The sad part is that the drunken translator was not involved. This is what happens when a bad plan falls apart.
"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."
Re: Colombia
The Fight Goes On, no one is Defeated Here
Written by Orsola
The last days have been characterized by the controversy surrounding the Final Agreement.
It has nothing to do with its content, but with something more important, its actual implementation. The country and the international community are witnesses to how the agreement between the National Government and the FARC-EP, a true peace treaty that put an end to the longest armed conflict on our continent, gets stuck and entangled when it comes to State compliance.
Peace and reconciliation have dangerous enemies. In the FARC, confrontation was always interpreted as the result of primacy, in the conduct of the State, of forces opposing dialogue and the political treatment of problems. Having achieved the signing of the Final Agreement represented the victory of different conceptions, the materialization of a bloc that said “no more” to war.
The polarization of the country is nothing more than the obsessive resistance of those positions understanding nothing but imposition and violence. In the international arena, the achievement of peace in Colombia is considered as a great example.
Above and beyond the passionate positions, the awarding of the Nobel Prize to President Santos certifies this. Only here, on account of the irrationality of hatred, does peace constitute an affront.
The number of FARC prisoners remains considerable. If we abide by the letter and spirit of the Final Agreement, the amnesty law, its regulatory decrees and other provisions, not a single one of them should be behind bars. A tangle of pretexts ranging from the Office of the High Commissioner of Peace to judges of execution of sentences insist on making dead letter of what has been agreed in Havana.
Cases such as Roberto Sepúlveda Muñoz, who died last week as a result of a long illness neglected by his jailers in Barne, Jose Angel Parra, seriously ill in La Picota, or the Negro Antonio who suffers from serious conditions in Cómbita, can only be explained by the persistence of grudges in certain administrators of justice, which even prevail over the laws themselves.
Such resistances represent much more than the stubbornness of a few individuals clogged in the State. They are the expression of a policy that survives in all the stages of national life. This policy manifested in the opposition of important sectors to the special circumscriptions of peace that would allow real access to the legislative power, of regions and communities historically excluded from it.
Such a policy followed by Prosecutor Martinez, according to which the Colombian conflict is only attributable to the FARC and can only involve criminal investigations and sanctions for the FARC, with a scandalous indifference to the thousands of massacres and the millions displaced by paramilitarism, as well as towards the massive illegal business enrichment derived from violent dispossession and towards the victims of state violence in camps and cities.
That policy, rather than helping the economic, social and cultural reincorporation of the guerrilla that has abandoned its arms, is committed to make it difficult and to put any kind of obstacles in front of any possibility of interpreting the agreements to their benefit. The health of former guerrillas, the real possibility of initiating work and productive projects, turning the basic aid for their survival, everything seems to interfere so that it would never arrive.
It is not, as might be thought lightly, a breach of commitments towards the FARC by the Establishment. This is a breach of commitments towards the whole country. The Final Agreement begins with a point on Land and then follows with another about openness and democratic participation. The first is complemented by the Agreement on illicit crops and against corruption. Then comes the Integral system of truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition.
The central idea of the Final Agreement was to stop the war and remove the violence from Colombian political scene. As a consequence, a democratic expansion in all areas of national life would flourish. A huge flow of forces bet on this and still believes in that.
Those who think that with their political, electoral or legal manoeuvres will eventually crush that unstoppable Colombian aspiration should think about this twice and not fool themselves.
Politics is not done or defined in a day, it is a continuous process in movement. Colombia went through many decades of violence before building the Peace Agreement, and that powerful political accumulation beats in the heart of the country.
We have opened way to a decent country, and nobody would be able to close it.
It is time for national mobilization against hatred and for peace. No one is beaten here.
Incessant struggle is the patrimony of the people, and in each moment and situation they find how to do it. Peace will triumph.
http://farc-epeace.org/blogs/gabriel-an ... -here.html
When you surrender your weapons and your opponents don't that sounds like surrender to me.
If the country is behind you call a general strike. Seems like that might be the only thing that might prevent a re-do of the 80's slaughter.
Written by Orsola
The last days have been characterized by the controversy surrounding the Final Agreement.
It has nothing to do with its content, but with something more important, its actual implementation. The country and the international community are witnesses to how the agreement between the National Government and the FARC-EP, a true peace treaty that put an end to the longest armed conflict on our continent, gets stuck and entangled when it comes to State compliance.
Peace and reconciliation have dangerous enemies. In the FARC, confrontation was always interpreted as the result of primacy, in the conduct of the State, of forces opposing dialogue and the political treatment of problems. Having achieved the signing of the Final Agreement represented the victory of different conceptions, the materialization of a bloc that said “no more” to war.
The polarization of the country is nothing more than the obsessive resistance of those positions understanding nothing but imposition and violence. In the international arena, the achievement of peace in Colombia is considered as a great example.
Above and beyond the passionate positions, the awarding of the Nobel Prize to President Santos certifies this. Only here, on account of the irrationality of hatred, does peace constitute an affront.
The number of FARC prisoners remains considerable. If we abide by the letter and spirit of the Final Agreement, the amnesty law, its regulatory decrees and other provisions, not a single one of them should be behind bars. A tangle of pretexts ranging from the Office of the High Commissioner of Peace to judges of execution of sentences insist on making dead letter of what has been agreed in Havana.
Cases such as Roberto Sepúlveda Muñoz, who died last week as a result of a long illness neglected by his jailers in Barne, Jose Angel Parra, seriously ill in La Picota, or the Negro Antonio who suffers from serious conditions in Cómbita, can only be explained by the persistence of grudges in certain administrators of justice, which even prevail over the laws themselves.
Such resistances represent much more than the stubbornness of a few individuals clogged in the State. They are the expression of a policy that survives in all the stages of national life. This policy manifested in the opposition of important sectors to the special circumscriptions of peace that would allow real access to the legislative power, of regions and communities historically excluded from it.
Such a policy followed by Prosecutor Martinez, according to which the Colombian conflict is only attributable to the FARC and can only involve criminal investigations and sanctions for the FARC, with a scandalous indifference to the thousands of massacres and the millions displaced by paramilitarism, as well as towards the massive illegal business enrichment derived from violent dispossession and towards the victims of state violence in camps and cities.
That policy, rather than helping the economic, social and cultural reincorporation of the guerrilla that has abandoned its arms, is committed to make it difficult and to put any kind of obstacles in front of any possibility of interpreting the agreements to their benefit. The health of former guerrillas, the real possibility of initiating work and productive projects, turning the basic aid for their survival, everything seems to interfere so that it would never arrive.
It is not, as might be thought lightly, a breach of commitments towards the FARC by the Establishment. This is a breach of commitments towards the whole country. The Final Agreement begins with a point on Land and then follows with another about openness and democratic participation. The first is complemented by the Agreement on illicit crops and against corruption. Then comes the Integral system of truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition.
The central idea of the Final Agreement was to stop the war and remove the violence from Colombian political scene. As a consequence, a democratic expansion in all areas of national life would flourish. A huge flow of forces bet on this and still believes in that.
Those who think that with their political, electoral or legal manoeuvres will eventually crush that unstoppable Colombian aspiration should think about this twice and not fool themselves.
Politics is not done or defined in a day, it is a continuous process in movement. Colombia went through many decades of violence before building the Peace Agreement, and that powerful political accumulation beats in the heart of the country.
We have opened way to a decent country, and nobody would be able to close it.
It is time for national mobilization against hatred and for peace. No one is beaten here.
Incessant struggle is the patrimony of the people, and in each moment and situation they find how to do it. Peace will triumph.
http://farc-epeace.org/blogs/gabriel-an ... -here.html
When you surrender your weapons and your opponents don't that sounds like surrender to me.
If the country is behind you call a general strike. Seems like that might be the only thing that might prevent a re-do of the 80's slaughter.
"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."
Re: Colombia
Public release: May peace, not cost us one more dead
Written by Farc
Public release: May peace, not cost us one more dead
We call on all sectors of society, who long for peaceful coexistence for our country, to speak out and mobilize in defense of life, as a fundamental premise for stable and lasting peace.
The National Political Council of the Common Revolutionary Alternative Force rejects the threats against the Legacy Foundation and the Juventud Rebelde organization, sent by electronic means on behalf of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, AUC.
The Legacy Foundation brings together young people, children and daughters and relatives of fallen or dead FARC-EP combatants during the long conflict that lasciled our homeland for more than 50 years and aims to recover and maintain the memory of these Colombians and Colombians who dedicated their lives to the noble cause of seeking a more just society for the new generations.
Juventud Rebelde, is a large organization of young people, committed to building a homeland in peace, democratic and with social justice. In that organization members of the Alternative Revolutionary Force of Colombia militate.
Since the signing of the peace agreement, 5 former combatants, 9 militiamen and 11 relatives of members of the FARC-EP have been murdered; for a total of 25 murders, until one of these crimes has been clarified so far by the Prosecutor's Office, which has been working to obstruct the commissioning of the Special Unit for the dismantlement of paramilitarism, to attack the peace process; and, in covering the scandals of corruption that affect it directly, with media tricks.
We demand of the National Government, full guarantees that, within the framework of the signed peace agreements, these threats will not remain in impunity, given their seriousness; and the consequences it has for society, the fact that this way is attacked against the right of all Colombians to associate freely.
As stated in the Agreement: "... security guarantees are a necessary condition to strengthen the construction of peace and coexistence, and in particular to ensure the implementation of the plans and programs agreed upon here, guarantee the protection of communities and community leaders, human rights defenders, parties and political and social movements, and especially the new movement or political party that emerges from the transit of the FARC-EP to legal political activity, as well as its members in the process of reincorporation into civilian life. "
Likewise: "The National Government shall guarantee the implementation of the necessary measures to intensify in an integral and effective manner the actions against the organizations and criminal conduct responsible for homicides and massacres that attack human rights defenders, social movements or movements political or threatening or threatening persons involved in the implementation of agreements and peacebuilding, including criminal organizations that have been designated as successors to paramilitaries and their support networks.
"Guarantees of Non-Repetition: the State will adopt measures to ensure the clarification of the paramilitary phenomenon, prevent its repetition and ensure the dismantling of criminal organizations and conducts responsible for killings and massacres, and systematic violence in particular against women, or against human rights defenders, social movements or political movements, or that threaten or threaten those who participate in the implementation of the agreements and the construction of peace. "
In these circumstances, we call for the immediate convening of an extraordinary meeting of the National Commission on Security Guarantees to report on the seriousness of the security situation affecting reintegrated combatants, their families, communities and the territories where the Territorial Areas of Reintegration and Training are located, as well as those where the FARC-EP has historically been present.
In the same way, we urge the international verification bodies: Former presidents Pepe Mujica, Felipe González; to the United Nations Special Political Verification Mission, which has as its mandate to verify political reincorporation, guarantees for the new party or political movement that arises from the transit of the FARC-EP to political life; in addition to economic and social integration; to take note of this ruling for what has to do with the functions assigned to them by the Agreement.
We call on all sectors of society, who long for peaceful coexistence for our country, to speak out and mobilize in defense of life, as a fundamental premise for stable and lasting peace.
May peace not cost us one more dead.
National Political Council.
Alternative Revolutionary Force of the Common.
Bogotá, October 2, 2017.
https://exchange.charter-business.net/o ... QQm0sqAAAJ
Google translator
Written by Farc
Public release: May peace, not cost us one more dead
We call on all sectors of society, who long for peaceful coexistence for our country, to speak out and mobilize in defense of life, as a fundamental premise for stable and lasting peace.
The National Political Council of the Common Revolutionary Alternative Force rejects the threats against the Legacy Foundation and the Juventud Rebelde organization, sent by electronic means on behalf of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, AUC.
The Legacy Foundation brings together young people, children and daughters and relatives of fallen or dead FARC-EP combatants during the long conflict that lasciled our homeland for more than 50 years and aims to recover and maintain the memory of these Colombians and Colombians who dedicated their lives to the noble cause of seeking a more just society for the new generations.
Juventud Rebelde, is a large organization of young people, committed to building a homeland in peace, democratic and with social justice. In that organization members of the Alternative Revolutionary Force of Colombia militate.
Since the signing of the peace agreement, 5 former combatants, 9 militiamen and 11 relatives of members of the FARC-EP have been murdered; for a total of 25 murders, until one of these crimes has been clarified so far by the Prosecutor's Office, which has been working to obstruct the commissioning of the Special Unit for the dismantlement of paramilitarism, to attack the peace process; and, in covering the scandals of corruption that affect it directly, with media tricks.
We demand of the National Government, full guarantees that, within the framework of the signed peace agreements, these threats will not remain in impunity, given their seriousness; and the consequences it has for society, the fact that this way is attacked against the right of all Colombians to associate freely.
As stated in the Agreement: "... security guarantees are a necessary condition to strengthen the construction of peace and coexistence, and in particular to ensure the implementation of the plans and programs agreed upon here, guarantee the protection of communities and community leaders, human rights defenders, parties and political and social movements, and especially the new movement or political party that emerges from the transit of the FARC-EP to legal political activity, as well as its members in the process of reincorporation into civilian life. "
Likewise: "The National Government shall guarantee the implementation of the necessary measures to intensify in an integral and effective manner the actions against the organizations and criminal conduct responsible for homicides and massacres that attack human rights defenders, social movements or movements political or threatening or threatening persons involved in the implementation of agreements and peacebuilding, including criminal organizations that have been designated as successors to paramilitaries and their support networks.
"Guarantees of Non-Repetition: the State will adopt measures to ensure the clarification of the paramilitary phenomenon, prevent its repetition and ensure the dismantling of criminal organizations and conducts responsible for killings and massacres, and systematic violence in particular against women, or against human rights defenders, social movements or political movements, or that threaten or threaten those who participate in the implementation of the agreements and the construction of peace. "
In these circumstances, we call for the immediate convening of an extraordinary meeting of the National Commission on Security Guarantees to report on the seriousness of the security situation affecting reintegrated combatants, their families, communities and the territories where the Territorial Areas of Reintegration and Training are located, as well as those where the FARC-EP has historically been present.
In the same way, we urge the international verification bodies: Former presidents Pepe Mujica, Felipe González; to the United Nations Special Political Verification Mission, which has as its mandate to verify political reincorporation, guarantees for the new party or political movement that arises from the transit of the FARC-EP to political life; in addition to economic and social integration; to take note of this ruling for what has to do with the functions assigned to them by the Agreement.
We call on all sectors of society, who long for peaceful coexistence for our country, to speak out and mobilize in defense of life, as a fundamental premise for stable and lasting peace.
May peace not cost us one more dead.
National Political Council.
Alternative Revolutionary Force of the Common.
Bogotá, October 2, 2017.
https://exchange.charter-business.net/o ... QQm0sqAAAJ
Google translator
"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."
Re: Colombia
No more Threats - FARC Communiqué
The National Political Council of the Common Revolutionary Alternative Force rejects the threats against the Legacy Foundation and the Juventud Rebelde organization, sent by electronic means on behalf of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, AUC.
The Legacy Foundation brings together young people, children and daughters and relatives of fallen or dead FARC-EP fighters, in the course of the long conflict that lasciled our homeland for more than 50 years, and aims to recover and maintain memory of these Colombians and Colombians who dedicated their lives to the noble cause of seeking a more just society for the new generations.
Juventud Rebelde, is a large organization of young people, committed to building a homeland in peace, democratic and with social justice. In that organization members of the Alternative Revolutionary Force of Colombia militate.
Since the signing of the peace agreement, 5 former combatants, 9 militiamen and 11 relatives of members of the FARC-EP have been murdered; for a total of 25 murders, until one of these crimes has been clarified so far by the Prosecutor's Office, which has been working to obstruct the commissioning of the Special Unit for the dismantlement of paramilitarism, to attack the peace process; and, in covering the scandals of corruption that affect directly, with media tricks.
We demand of the National Government, full guarantees that, within the framework of the signed peace agreements, these threats will not remain in impunity, given their seriousness; and the consequences it has for society, the fact that this way is attacked against the right of all Colombians to associate freely.
As stated in the Agreement: "... security guarantees are a necessary condition to strengthen the construction of peace and coexistence, and in particular to ensure the implementation of the plans and programs agreed upon here, to ensure the protection of communities and community leaders, human rights defenders, parties and political and social movements, and especially the new movement or political party that emerges from the transit of the FARC-EP to legal political activity, as well as its members in the process of reincorporation into civilian life. "
Likewise: "The National Government shall guarantee the implementation of the necessary measures to intensify in an integral and effective manner the actions against the organizations and criminal conduct responsible for homicides and massacres that attack human rights defenders, social movements or movements political or threatening or threatening persons involved in the implementation of agreements and peacebuilding, including criminal organizations that have been designated as successors to paramilitaries and their support networks.
"Guarantees of Non-Repetition: the State will adopt measures to ensure the clarification of the paramilitary phenomenon, prevent its repetition and ensure the dismantling of criminal organizations and conducts responsible for killings and massacres, and systematic violence in particular against women, or against human rights defenders, social movements or political movements, or that threaten or threaten those who participate in the implementation of the agreements and the construction of peace. "
In these circumstances, we call for the immediate convening of an extraordinary meeting of the National Commission on Security Guarantees to report on the seriousness of the security situation affecting reintegrated combatants, their families, communities and the territories where the Territorial Areas of Reintegration and Training are located, as well as those where the FARC-EP has historically been present.
In the same way, we urge the international verification bodies: Former presidents Pepe Mujica, Felipe González; to the United Nations Special Political Verification Mission, which has as its mandate to verify political reincorporation, guarantees for the new party or political movement that arises from the transit of the FARC-EP to political life; in addition to economic and social integration; to take note of this ruling for what has to do with the functions assigned to them by the Agreement.
We call on all sectors of society, who long for peaceful coexistence for our country, to speak out and mobilize in defense of life, as a fundamental premise for stable and lasting peace.
May peace not cost us one more dead.
National Political Council.
Alternative Revolutionary Force of the Common.
Bogotá, October 2, 2017.
http://farc-epeace.org/communiques/farc ... C3%A9.html
Perhaps this is a 'higher morality' thing but it is screamingly weak from a materialist perspective.
The National Political Council of the Common Revolutionary Alternative Force rejects the threats against the Legacy Foundation and the Juventud Rebelde organization, sent by electronic means on behalf of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, AUC.
The Legacy Foundation brings together young people, children and daughters and relatives of fallen or dead FARC-EP fighters, in the course of the long conflict that lasciled our homeland for more than 50 years, and aims to recover and maintain memory of these Colombians and Colombians who dedicated their lives to the noble cause of seeking a more just society for the new generations.
Juventud Rebelde, is a large organization of young people, committed to building a homeland in peace, democratic and with social justice. In that organization members of the Alternative Revolutionary Force of Colombia militate.
Since the signing of the peace agreement, 5 former combatants, 9 militiamen and 11 relatives of members of the FARC-EP have been murdered; for a total of 25 murders, until one of these crimes has been clarified so far by the Prosecutor's Office, which has been working to obstruct the commissioning of the Special Unit for the dismantlement of paramilitarism, to attack the peace process; and, in covering the scandals of corruption that affect directly, with media tricks.
We demand of the National Government, full guarantees that, within the framework of the signed peace agreements, these threats will not remain in impunity, given their seriousness; and the consequences it has for society, the fact that this way is attacked against the right of all Colombians to associate freely.
As stated in the Agreement: "... security guarantees are a necessary condition to strengthen the construction of peace and coexistence, and in particular to ensure the implementation of the plans and programs agreed upon here, to ensure the protection of communities and community leaders, human rights defenders, parties and political and social movements, and especially the new movement or political party that emerges from the transit of the FARC-EP to legal political activity, as well as its members in the process of reincorporation into civilian life. "
Likewise: "The National Government shall guarantee the implementation of the necessary measures to intensify in an integral and effective manner the actions against the organizations and criminal conduct responsible for homicides and massacres that attack human rights defenders, social movements or movements political or threatening or threatening persons involved in the implementation of agreements and peacebuilding, including criminal organizations that have been designated as successors to paramilitaries and their support networks.
"Guarantees of Non-Repetition: the State will adopt measures to ensure the clarification of the paramilitary phenomenon, prevent its repetition and ensure the dismantling of criminal organizations and conducts responsible for killings and massacres, and systematic violence in particular against women, or against human rights defenders, social movements or political movements, or that threaten or threaten those who participate in the implementation of the agreements and the construction of peace. "
In these circumstances, we call for the immediate convening of an extraordinary meeting of the National Commission on Security Guarantees to report on the seriousness of the security situation affecting reintegrated combatants, their families, communities and the territories where the Territorial Areas of Reintegration and Training are located, as well as those where the FARC-EP has historically been present.
In the same way, we urge the international verification bodies: Former presidents Pepe Mujica, Felipe González; to the United Nations Special Political Verification Mission, which has as its mandate to verify political reincorporation, guarantees for the new party or political movement that arises from the transit of the FARC-EP to political life; in addition to economic and social integration; to take note of this ruling for what has to do with the functions assigned to them by the Agreement.
We call on all sectors of society, who long for peaceful coexistence for our country, to speak out and mobilize in defense of life, as a fundamental premise for stable and lasting peace.
May peace not cost us one more dead.
National Political Council.
Alternative Revolutionary Force of the Common.
Bogotá, October 2, 2017.
http://farc-epeace.org/communiques/farc ... C3%A9.html
Perhaps this is a 'higher morality' thing but it is screamingly weak from a materialist perspective.
"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."
Re: Colombia
Implementation: Where we are
We have come to the National Capitol to tell the nation and the world the voice of discontent and protest of the members of the FARC who have stepped into legality, who survive in the Zones and Territorial Spaces, hopeful about peace despite the non-compliance or half-compliance of government commitments at all levels of implementation; especially in matters of legal, physical or personal security, and socio-economic security.
And we want to stress that in this last aspect, there is no land where to advance the productive projects necessary for subsistence.
We have fulfilled the commitments and what is needed is that the government fully complies with its commitments. We have acted in good faith, and every time we take significant steps, the Attorney General of the Nation doesn’t miss the opportunity to threaten, as you know, judicial actions, for everyone to tremble, and this is evidently done in concert with the embassy of the United States and certainly with the acquiescence of sectors of the coalition government.
In this context I would like to affirm that Colombia has international obligations to fulfill as a result of the signing of the Havana Peace Agreement. Let me remind you that by depositing such an important document before the Council of the Swiss Federation in Berne, it acquires the connotation of Special Agreement in the area of IHL and human rights law, because nothing is more humane than stopping a war. And because this is a fundamental issue in defining the fate of Colombia, we will ask the ICRC's legal office in Switzerland to ask what is the scope of the special agreements and what should be the attitude of the governments that have signed it.
On the other hand, and in the same spirit, we recall that the aforementioned Havana Agreement was presented by the Government of Colombia to the UN Secretary-General through the instrument of a unilateral Declaration of State, in which the latter is obliged to comply with what has been agreed.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are really faced with an international obligation by the State, but it seems that this is not relevant for many members of the institution.
Since the Agreement was signed, a year ago, its normative development was used to renegotiate what was agreed in Havana, to change the meaning of what had been agreed. Pacta Sunt Servanda! Enough of those pretensions. What has been agreed has to be fulfilled.
We negotiated in Havana with the Government, which is supposed to do it in the name of the State; thus what has to follow is the harmonious coordination of the powers so that the spirit of the agreement is not affected.
Here, everybody has put hands to the agreements, more for bad than for good: not only some congressmen who come with noxious last-minute occurrences, but also magistrates, representatives of the executive and the Prosecutor, who, for example, has denied the establishment of the Special Unit for the fight against paramilitarism of point 74 of the JEP. That unit is subsidiary, it only acts if Public Prosecutor's Office doesn’t and the PP has in its hands some 15 thousand cases related to paramilitarism, but it keeps them sleeping. We do not want third parties involved in the conflict to remain forever sheltered under the mantle of impunity.
They are also bound to help truth. The constitutional reform to achieve the full realisation of this unit is a commitment that the Government could not leave aside.
Some begin to speak of deception and government fraud to their counterpart. All the time the Prosecutor is looking for our fall and legal paperwork to make the reconciliation of Colombia unviable. Stop that, stop extending the judicial trap in which you seek to catch and immobilize collective dreams of peace.
Given the crisis of the Ius Puniendi or the capacity of the State to judge and punish, and before the generalized discredit of the Prosecutor and the judicial branch of public power, it is time for the JEP to start: this is the time for transformations, so that the institutions could be led by honest people who could return to the country confidence in the State.
We must establish the causes and those responsible for the difficult ordeal of confrontation. There is no need to fear the truth. The truth heals the wounds of the soul caused by the long conflict, and without this healing it will not be possible to find reconciliation. Hence the importance of opening the way to such instances as the Truth Commission and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace that are designed in a perspective of justice without revenge and restoration of the social fabric.
Luckily, some in the Congress have assumed the boycott of the statutory law of the JEP, without realising that they are thus opening the doors to the ICC, when we had already given priority to the National Margin of Appreciation, so that on the base of our history, customs, geography, for knowledge of the origin of the conflict, we looked for exits that would ensure our future of peace.
But the problems are not only with the JEP. Although the congress in full and by a large majority endorsed the agreements and activated the possibilities for theirs normative implementation as a constituent derivative in representation of the people, today there are sectors of the congress that seek to block and obstruct the just aspirations raised in the agreements.
We can point out some clear examples. There are congressmen who aspire to sink the political reform that is the cardinal aspect of the reincorporation and to limit as much as possible the norms of citizen participation and of guarantees to the social protest.
The people of the territories cannot be victimized once again by eliminating the municipal heads of the special circumscriptions of peace. The titling of land to the peasants became a legend and has been obstructed by the inveterate and irrational Santaranderism that uses the rule not to solve the problems but to make them worse and by a heavy and sleepy bureaucracy that, while benefiting the latifundio, alone knows how to worship and compliment the de facto powers and paperwork and endless paperwork when dealing with peasants and rural people.
The substitution of illicit crops, despite the FARC's in-depth accompaniment in the difficult task of persuading and making substitution pedagogy, has not yielded the expected results because it occurred to the authorities to conjugate, at a bad time and at the wrong time, substitution with forced eradication, which, in addition to being contradictory, is more expensive than substitution itself.
We are sure that the implementation of substitution programs agreed with peasants, reinforced by respect for the rights violated by peasants since the founding of the republic, which has denied a dignified life to the countryside, can indicate the route of the termination of a phenomenon which has its roots in social and economic causes and that has to do with the absence of a true Comprehensive Rural Reform. But as we said, not only in Congress do they throw sticks at the peace wheel, because in the case of reincorporation, although there have been rules that would facilitate this process, such as amnesty, legal status for the new party, in the Constitutional Court everything continues in a state of uncertainty and in the institutional setting in general we have very delicate difficulties.
The non-compliances are as follows:
320 ex-guerrillas are still in prison. More than 700 remain imprisoned without accreditation. Suspensions of arrest warrants against members of FARC who have left their weapons have not materialised and they are still being held at police checkpoints because the cases have not been transferred to the corresponding databases.
Of the 540 guerrillas transferred to the Zones, as of today only 140 have been placed on parole. Although the last Presidential Decree of Amnesty of Iure has already been issued, there are many ex-combatants in areas that have not been included, and no individual resolutions have been issued to be handed over to the recipients of amnesty. During the drafting process of the JEP statutory law there has already been a de facto renegotiation with the Prosecutor. The bill submitted to Congress on September 26 includes several changes introduced by the Attorney General's Office, not agreed with the FARC, on budgets, on "dissidents" referring only to the FARC; incorporation of closures listed on August 15, contrary to what is established in the Final Agreement; The Interior Minister states that there is no majority to approve the statutory law in the Senate.
The Government's commitment is not to admit modifications contrary to the draft approved in CSIVI. The legal status of the zones is in stand by. Not only have the arrest warrants for extradition purposes not been suspended, but more people have been arrested on the basis of those requests.
We could point out to a number of breaches such as the ones mentioned above in security, information, victimization, differentiation of criminal treatment for those involved in crimes of poverty, as is the case of peasants growing coca leaves, or of activation of the international accompaniment, which is never summoned.
In addition to this panorama there is the uncertainty generated by the de-financing of the plans and programs derived from the Final Agreement. It should be said that it is regrettable that the Government does not commit itself to a serious fiscal effort that guarantees sufficient resources for implementation.
The Framework Plan envisaged by the establishment does not commit more than 0.7% of GDP to 15 years. Because the implementation is a real field in dispute that does not close with the completion of the Fast Track, now more than ever, faced with the difficulties and challenges, we must reaffirm that the only guarantee that the aspirations for peace will not be frustrated lies in the unity of the people, embracing the Havana Agreement.
In the midst of these difficulties we have become a political force ready to pick up the dreams of peace and also the accumulated discontent after successive governments that turned their back on the weakest.
From this position, a year after the extraordinary defense of the peace process by the masses of common people in the streets of Colombia, we now call for the defense of its implementation and to work together for the great National Political Agreement that will prevent the trumpets of the war from breaking once again the calm of national harmony.
http://farc-epeace.org/peace-process/ne ... e-are.html
Comrade, if you are a political power I think you should demonstrate that without delay.
We have come to the National Capitol to tell the nation and the world the voice of discontent and protest of the members of the FARC who have stepped into legality, who survive in the Zones and Territorial Spaces, hopeful about peace despite the non-compliance or half-compliance of government commitments at all levels of implementation; especially in matters of legal, physical or personal security, and socio-economic security.
And we want to stress that in this last aspect, there is no land where to advance the productive projects necessary for subsistence.
We have fulfilled the commitments and what is needed is that the government fully complies with its commitments. We have acted in good faith, and every time we take significant steps, the Attorney General of the Nation doesn’t miss the opportunity to threaten, as you know, judicial actions, for everyone to tremble, and this is evidently done in concert with the embassy of the United States and certainly with the acquiescence of sectors of the coalition government.
In this context I would like to affirm that Colombia has international obligations to fulfill as a result of the signing of the Havana Peace Agreement. Let me remind you that by depositing such an important document before the Council of the Swiss Federation in Berne, it acquires the connotation of Special Agreement in the area of IHL and human rights law, because nothing is more humane than stopping a war. And because this is a fundamental issue in defining the fate of Colombia, we will ask the ICRC's legal office in Switzerland to ask what is the scope of the special agreements and what should be the attitude of the governments that have signed it.
On the other hand, and in the same spirit, we recall that the aforementioned Havana Agreement was presented by the Government of Colombia to the UN Secretary-General through the instrument of a unilateral Declaration of State, in which the latter is obliged to comply with what has been agreed.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are really faced with an international obligation by the State, but it seems that this is not relevant for many members of the institution.
Since the Agreement was signed, a year ago, its normative development was used to renegotiate what was agreed in Havana, to change the meaning of what had been agreed. Pacta Sunt Servanda! Enough of those pretensions. What has been agreed has to be fulfilled.
We negotiated in Havana with the Government, which is supposed to do it in the name of the State; thus what has to follow is the harmonious coordination of the powers so that the spirit of the agreement is not affected.
Here, everybody has put hands to the agreements, more for bad than for good: not only some congressmen who come with noxious last-minute occurrences, but also magistrates, representatives of the executive and the Prosecutor, who, for example, has denied the establishment of the Special Unit for the fight against paramilitarism of point 74 of the JEP. That unit is subsidiary, it only acts if Public Prosecutor's Office doesn’t and the PP has in its hands some 15 thousand cases related to paramilitarism, but it keeps them sleeping. We do not want third parties involved in the conflict to remain forever sheltered under the mantle of impunity.
They are also bound to help truth. The constitutional reform to achieve the full realisation of this unit is a commitment that the Government could not leave aside.
Some begin to speak of deception and government fraud to their counterpart. All the time the Prosecutor is looking for our fall and legal paperwork to make the reconciliation of Colombia unviable. Stop that, stop extending the judicial trap in which you seek to catch and immobilize collective dreams of peace.
Given the crisis of the Ius Puniendi or the capacity of the State to judge and punish, and before the generalized discredit of the Prosecutor and the judicial branch of public power, it is time for the JEP to start: this is the time for transformations, so that the institutions could be led by honest people who could return to the country confidence in the State.
We must establish the causes and those responsible for the difficult ordeal of confrontation. There is no need to fear the truth. The truth heals the wounds of the soul caused by the long conflict, and without this healing it will not be possible to find reconciliation. Hence the importance of opening the way to such instances as the Truth Commission and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace that are designed in a perspective of justice without revenge and restoration of the social fabric.
Luckily, some in the Congress have assumed the boycott of the statutory law of the JEP, without realising that they are thus opening the doors to the ICC, when we had already given priority to the National Margin of Appreciation, so that on the base of our history, customs, geography, for knowledge of the origin of the conflict, we looked for exits that would ensure our future of peace.
But the problems are not only with the JEP. Although the congress in full and by a large majority endorsed the agreements and activated the possibilities for theirs normative implementation as a constituent derivative in representation of the people, today there are sectors of the congress that seek to block and obstruct the just aspirations raised in the agreements.
We can point out some clear examples. There are congressmen who aspire to sink the political reform that is the cardinal aspect of the reincorporation and to limit as much as possible the norms of citizen participation and of guarantees to the social protest.
The people of the territories cannot be victimized once again by eliminating the municipal heads of the special circumscriptions of peace. The titling of land to the peasants became a legend and has been obstructed by the inveterate and irrational Santaranderism that uses the rule not to solve the problems but to make them worse and by a heavy and sleepy bureaucracy that, while benefiting the latifundio, alone knows how to worship and compliment the de facto powers and paperwork and endless paperwork when dealing with peasants and rural people.
The substitution of illicit crops, despite the FARC's in-depth accompaniment in the difficult task of persuading and making substitution pedagogy, has not yielded the expected results because it occurred to the authorities to conjugate, at a bad time and at the wrong time, substitution with forced eradication, which, in addition to being contradictory, is more expensive than substitution itself.
We are sure that the implementation of substitution programs agreed with peasants, reinforced by respect for the rights violated by peasants since the founding of the republic, which has denied a dignified life to the countryside, can indicate the route of the termination of a phenomenon which has its roots in social and economic causes and that has to do with the absence of a true Comprehensive Rural Reform. But as we said, not only in Congress do they throw sticks at the peace wheel, because in the case of reincorporation, although there have been rules that would facilitate this process, such as amnesty, legal status for the new party, in the Constitutional Court everything continues in a state of uncertainty and in the institutional setting in general we have very delicate difficulties.
The non-compliances are as follows:
320 ex-guerrillas are still in prison. More than 700 remain imprisoned without accreditation. Suspensions of arrest warrants against members of FARC who have left their weapons have not materialised and they are still being held at police checkpoints because the cases have not been transferred to the corresponding databases.
Of the 540 guerrillas transferred to the Zones, as of today only 140 have been placed on parole. Although the last Presidential Decree of Amnesty of Iure has already been issued, there are many ex-combatants in areas that have not been included, and no individual resolutions have been issued to be handed over to the recipients of amnesty. During the drafting process of the JEP statutory law there has already been a de facto renegotiation with the Prosecutor. The bill submitted to Congress on September 26 includes several changes introduced by the Attorney General's Office, not agreed with the FARC, on budgets, on "dissidents" referring only to the FARC; incorporation of closures listed on August 15, contrary to what is established in the Final Agreement; The Interior Minister states that there is no majority to approve the statutory law in the Senate.
The Government's commitment is not to admit modifications contrary to the draft approved in CSIVI. The legal status of the zones is in stand by. Not only have the arrest warrants for extradition purposes not been suspended, but more people have been arrested on the basis of those requests.
We could point out to a number of breaches such as the ones mentioned above in security, information, victimization, differentiation of criminal treatment for those involved in crimes of poverty, as is the case of peasants growing coca leaves, or of activation of the international accompaniment, which is never summoned.
In addition to this panorama there is the uncertainty generated by the de-financing of the plans and programs derived from the Final Agreement. It should be said that it is regrettable that the Government does not commit itself to a serious fiscal effort that guarantees sufficient resources for implementation.
The Framework Plan envisaged by the establishment does not commit more than 0.7% of GDP to 15 years. Because the implementation is a real field in dispute that does not close with the completion of the Fast Track, now more than ever, faced with the difficulties and challenges, we must reaffirm that the only guarantee that the aspirations for peace will not be frustrated lies in the unity of the people, embracing the Havana Agreement.
In the midst of these difficulties we have become a political force ready to pick up the dreams of peace and also the accumulated discontent after successive governments that turned their back on the weakest.
From this position, a year after the extraordinary defense of the peace process by the masses of common people in the streets of Colombia, we now call for the defense of its implementation and to work together for the great National Political Agreement that will prevent the trumpets of the war from breaking once again the calm of national harmony.
http://farc-epeace.org/peace-process/ne ... e-are.html
Comrade, if you are a political power I think you should demonstrate that without delay.
"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."
Re: Colombia
And the 'hits' just keep on coming....
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Demand to investigate massacre in Tumaco, Colombia
Since September 28, thousands of Colombians have been in peaceful protest in Tumaco, demanding that the murder of the peasants be stopped. | Photo: @GPerezPardo
Published 6 October 2017 (1 hour 2 minutes ago)
Several social organizations in Colombia, the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común (FARC), demanded this Friday to clarify the facts raised in the massacre against the peasant population of the population of Tumaco , In colombia.
So far, the unfortunate episode that occurred last Thursday, recorded at least six people killed and 18 others injured (according to government figures), when a group of more than 200 peasants and indigenous people were in that area protesting against the forced eradication of coca bush that was going to realize a unit of the National Army.
The president of the FARC, Rodrigo Londoño, demanded that a verification mission be immediately sent to Tumaco "to identify with truthfulness those responsible for the massacre of campesinos mobilized."
In turn, the ELN, through its social networks on Twitter, condemned the massacre and demanded the urgent intervention of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, as well as international support for the seriousness of the events.
Likewise, the Voices of Peace Political Group issued a communiqué in which it urged the Government of "make the promise of peace in the country's countryside a reality."
Social organizations have expressed their support to the local population claiming that Tumaco "is one of the most marginalized areas of the country where families have historically had to resort to sowing illicit crops to ensure their vital minimum and survival."
https://www.telesurtv.net/news/Grupos-s ... -0043.html
So much for 'stopping the bloodshed'. What makes it so much worse is that this is so predictable, ya just can't trust the bastards. Perhaps there is something about Columbia that I don't understand, that FARC thought is would turn out otherwise. Maybe it's something else.
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Demand to investigate massacre in Tumaco, Colombia
Since September 28, thousands of Colombians have been in peaceful protest in Tumaco, demanding that the murder of the peasants be stopped. | Photo: @GPerezPardo
Published 6 October 2017 (1 hour 2 minutes ago)
Several social organizations in Colombia, the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común (FARC), demanded this Friday to clarify the facts raised in the massacre against the peasant population of the population of Tumaco , In colombia.
So far, the unfortunate episode that occurred last Thursday, recorded at least six people killed and 18 others injured (according to government figures), when a group of more than 200 peasants and indigenous people were in that area protesting against the forced eradication of coca bush that was going to realize a unit of the National Army.
The president of the FARC, Rodrigo Londoño, demanded that a verification mission be immediately sent to Tumaco "to identify with truthfulness those responsible for the massacre of campesinos mobilized."
In turn, the ELN, through its social networks on Twitter, condemned the massacre and demanded the urgent intervention of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, as well as international support for the seriousness of the events.
Likewise, the Voices of Peace Political Group issued a communiqué in which it urged the Government of "make the promise of peace in the country's countryside a reality."
Social organizations have expressed their support to the local population claiming that Tumaco "is one of the most marginalized areas of the country where families have historically had to resort to sowing illicit crops to ensure their vital minimum and survival."
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So much for 'stopping the bloodshed'. What makes it so much worse is that this is so predictable, ya just can't trust the bastards. Perhaps there is something about Columbia that I don't understand, that FARC thought is would turn out otherwise. Maybe it's something else.
"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."