JEP asks MINDefensa for information on actions to protect former FARC combatants

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) urged the Colombian Ministry of Defense to provide information related to the strategies that have been adopted for the protection of former combatants of the demobilized FARC guerrillas who are currently in the process of being reinstated.

This decision, determined by the Absence of Recognition Chamber, which was known to Blu Radio, provides for the delivery of a report in which the Defence portfolio must explain the actions being taken to ensure the safety of the signatories of the Final Peace Agreement, who are in transit towards legality, as well as measures against armed structures that infringe upon their life and integrity.

The national media also learned that the portfolio, headed by Minister Diego Molano, will have to answer a questionnaire sent by the peace court, which argued that violations of rights and murders against former FARC combatants continue to be submitted, despite requests from transitional justice and repeated called by international organizations such as the UN against the protection of former members.

This statement comes two months after the Presidential Adviser for Stabilization and Consolidation, Emilio Archila, rejected the JEP's call for attention to the national Government for the killing of 35 ex-combatants who reportedly requested that their safety be guaranteed before the National Protection Unit (UNP) ).

For assigning a vehicle, apparently, defective to the security scheme of a former combatant of the extinct FARC guerrilla and failing to provide him with a solution, despite a guardianship involved, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) initiated an incident of contempt against the director of the National Protection Unit (UNP), Alfonso Campo Martinez.

W Radio noted that in the Non-Recognition Section of the JEP they made that decision, since despite the fact that the signatory of the peace agreement had protective measures, with that car, which it claims has constant breakdowns, it is at risk.

On the radio, they explained that in the face of the situation, the former guerrilla filed a guardianship and since the UNP still does not resolve this problem, the JEP initiated the incident of contempt for which Campos Martínez will have to issue written discharges in no more than five days.

In February, the peace court filed a similar request for Pastor Alape, a delegate of the Commons Party to the National Council for Reincorporation.

The former member of the late FARC secretariat had denounced flaws in its security scheme and warned of the risk to his life during a hearing with the Special Jurisdiction for Peace held last November.

At that meeting, the member of the Commons Party presented clear situations in which the security provided to him by the UNP is weakened on several occasions and revealed the poor state of the official vehicles assigned for their movements.

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