According to the last report of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia on the progress of the implementation of the agreement with the extinct FARC, “violence against ex-members of the FARC continued to be recorded -Ep”.
(Furthermore: the UN Verification Mission delivered a balance on the implementation of the agreement).
The text states that these cases continue to be registered in those regions where “the armed actors exercise social and territorial control”.
To expand on this point, the Verification Mission indicated that between March 27 and June 26 of this year, the murder of 12 ex-combatants was reported, double the number of cases Compared to the last report, from January to March 2023, when six homicides of ex-combatants were reported.In addition, the report indicates that one more homicide was reported than in the same period from March to June 2022, when there were 11 homicides.
With these latest figures, there are already 374 murders of ex-combatants since the Final Agreement was signed, in 2016, until June of this year. These cases include 11 women, 35 indigenous and 54 Afro-Colombians.
In addition to the homicides, the report indicates that in the three months of analysis other types of violence against ex-combatants have been reported: four are listed * 100016* as missing and seven survived homicide attempts. These actions were reported in Antioquia, Cauca, Guaviare, Caquetá, Chocó, Tolima and Valle del Cauca.
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In the Verification Mission consolidated, there are already 129 victims of attempted homicide since the peace was signed with the extinct FARC, 10 of these cases were against women . On the other hand, 32 ex-combatants have been reported as missing.
In this same sense, the situation of the territorial spaces for training and reintegration was discussed. “Five former territorial spaces, located in the departments of Antioquia, Cauca, Meta and Putumayo, face risks to their security and require urgent support,” said the verification vision in the report released yesterday.
* 100025*Although the text does not mention it, there are the cases of the Mesetas and Vista Hermosa (Meta) and Remedios (Antioquia) TACRs, in which threats by armed forces have forced some of their inhabitants to to leave the area in which they lived.
In the report, the UN Mission highlighted that “the Ministry of Defense announced that starting in July it would gradually reinforce preventive security deployments in the old territorial spaces for training and reincorporation. The Police would strengthen its presence in the 24 spaces, while the Military Forces would reinforce its presence”.
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