translated from Spanish: FARC asks Colombian President to “stop genocide” over murders of former guerrillas and social leaders

The Common Revolutionary Alternative Force (FARC), the political party emerging from the defunct FARC guerrillas, on Tuesday called on Colombia’s president, Ivan Duque, to “stop the genocide,” alluding to the murders of former swingers and social leaders.” Duke, stop the genocide. This bloodbath must be put to an end,” said FARC Senator Carlos Lozada via Twitter, urging the government to “get out of the inertia that makes it complicit.” Lozada has referred to the latest murders of former guerrillas, one of which took place on Monday in Chocó, while in Huila there were two others during the past week, according to the Colombian newspaper ‘El Espectador’.” We’re not going to leave the former fighters alone, we’re not going to let the Hamburgers keep taking them away from us,” said the presidential advisor for Consolidation and Stabilization, Emilio Archila, after the two killed in Huila.La FARC has passed on his “deep concern” about what he considers “an ongoing extermination” during his meeting with the UN Mission in Colombia on Tuesday, as reported by its leader, Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, alias ‘Timochenko’, on the social network. The FARC has called a protest saucepan at 6 p.m. local time to protest the killings of “peace-saments.” “Colombian society must speak out and demand that the Government surround us with guarantees. If we continue like this, the peace process is in danger,” warned Lozada.La signing in 2016 of the peace agreement between the Government and the FARC has, paradoxically, provoked a new wave of violence in Colombia due, above all, to the conflict between rival groups for the control of the territory. According to the United Nations, at least 303 social leaders and human rights defenders have been killed since the signing of the peace agreement, 86 of them in 2019 alone, and 173 former FARC guerrillas, 77 of whom died last year. The Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), for its part, has stated that so far in 2020 at least 51 social leaders and ten former FARC guerrillas have been killed.

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