Office of the Ombudsman reveals the reality of the security of former FARC combatants

On March 14, the ombudsman, Carlos Camargo, presented a report to the JEP on the safety of former FARC combatants and assured that it is an 'important' step to ensure peace in the country.

Camargo stressed that one of the most important goals is to ensure the safety of former FARC combatants, who took part in the process and are rejoining civilian life with their families, rebuilding their lives.

The investigative line of the Prosecutor's Office managed to establish that in 80% of cases the perpetrators of these crimes are criminal structures such as the dissidents of the FARC, the Gulf Clan and the Eln.

“From the Office of the Ombudsman, we reiterate our call to State entities to continue to strengthen security in a broad and comprehensive sense, to prevent violations of the rights of ex-combatants. Also, strengthen the coordination of actions for the dismantling of criminal structures, and in particular, strengthen security strategies to dismantle Organized Armed Groups (GAO),” added Carlos Camargo.

“Guarantees for the reintegration of these people are essential to continue on the path of peace,” he said.

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) received this Monday the report “Ethnocide and Structural Racism in the Orinoquia” denouncing practices that “deepened” during the armed conflict, presented by the indigenous peoples of that Colombian region.

The report seeks to contribute to the clarification of the violence against the indigenous peoples of the region, which would include a physical and cultural extermination of the original inhabitants of Orinoquia. Representatives of the Amorua, Maibén Masiware, Tshiripu, Sikuani and Cuiva ethnic groups, as well as social organizations, human rights defenders and international organizations, among others, participated in the delivery.

The document includes representative cases with the sociocultural profile of communities and the victimizing facts from the testimonies collected, as well as an analysis of the types of gender-based violence and sexual violence against them. In addition, it contains a proposal for technical guidelines on works, works and activities with restorative and restorative content from an ethnic perspective, according to a statement shared by the Llano y Selva Network.

This network consists of nine social organizations that defend human rights and one psychosocial organization that accompany communities victims of the armed conflict in the Eastern Plains region.

This group of victims prepared the report with the aim of “contributing to the clarification of the violence against the indigenous peoples of the region, which have shaped the conditions for the physical and cultural extermination of the original inhabitants of Orinoquia, violence that can be traced since the time of the Colony and which were deepened in the context of the armed conflict”.

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