Three members of the former rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) were assassinated within a week, the party that transformed the party after disarming it under the 2016 peace deal denounced.
“Today (Thursday) they killed Maria Stefania Munios (Yuri Lopez), who had signed the peace agreement”, in the prefecture of Kauka (southwest), the former rebel, now MP Alban, complained via Twitter.
This is the tenth former FARC rebel who was killed after the signing of the 2016 peace agreement, said Senator Victoria Santino, a former member of the same armed movement.
According to the independent institute INDEPAZ, which systematically monitors the armed conflict in Colombia, the former rebel and her daughter were killed in the community of Buenos Aires.
Also in the Caucasus, two other former FARC guerrillas were killed on Saturday and Wednesday, Ms. Santino said.
A FARC member of the Comunes party escaped an assassination attempt on Tuesday in the Caucasus, according to Pastor Alape, one of the group’s leaders.
The Caucasus has become the scene of bloody clashes between armed groups claiming control of drug trafficking revenue in this part of the strategic corridor for cocaine exports to Central America and the United States.
According to the INDEPAZ count, 189 FARC members who signed the historic peace agreement have been killed — 40 in 2021.
The Comunes party blames conservative President Ivan Duque for their deaths, citing his “lack of will and commitment to full implementation” of the peace deal.
The government and prosecutors, meanwhile, have blamed National Liberation Army (ELN) Guevara rebels, FARC apostates who reject the peace deal and drug-trafficking gangs formed by former members of far-right paramilitary groups.
In the weeks leading up to the five-year anniversary of the signing of the peace agreement, the United Nations has warned of a deteriorating security situation for some 13,000 former FARC members who have laid down their arms.
