Placing explosives near schools or roads that peasants, women and children transit, communities that the guerrilla affirm they represent, are a cowardly expression that shows their weakness. Only their defenders would intend to explain such terrorist actions as a violent escalation that must have a political outcome.
Accepting this thesis, means asking Colombian people to yield their most sacred values and principles to organized crime, whether it’s guerrilla or criminal bands. If this suicide route continues, we shall also yield our cities to micro traffic, to those who manage prostitution businesses and to every delinquent that commits crimes for social reasons or because he/she feels like a social and economic outcast. Our reality cannot be expressed in any other way.
The current onslaught forms part of a march promoted to vindicate supposed State victims, endorsed by the communist organization Movice, which will take place on Mach 6th. It’s no coincidence that Farc ordered an armed strike in Risaralda and Choco between March 1st and 8th and intensified their attacks against civilians in Cauca and Arauca. There is coordination. Narcoguerrillas are going to use the liberation process to take back land which they have lost thanks to the determined action of People-Government and Armed Forces in the implementation of the Defense and Democratic Security Policy.
A succession of facts demonstrates such behavior: at the end of 2011 four kidnapped soldiers were assassinated. Farc’s political spokeswoman try to hide their action saying that they killed them because of intense military pressure, a few days later Farc said that they were going to liberate them. Shortly after Farc declares they are liberating 6 kidnapped soldiers, afterwards Piedad Cordoba (Farc’s main ally) publicly demands the release of 10 people and calls for an international media crusade that follows the entire process. The narcoguerrilla then announces that they are willing to release all 10 and at the same time broadcast epistles to talk about their desire of peace.
Simultaneously, Farc unleash a terrorist trend against civilians in Nariño and Cauca and attack transporters in Putumayo and Caqueta, leaving victims and destruction. Colombian people and the international community express their repudiation towards this criminal entity.
Movice answers with a rally rejecting State victims, talking about rebirth of paramilitarism and of joint operations between the Armed Forces and criminal bands. The sole intention of these actions is to distort the image and nature of a conflict promoted by the Colombian Communist Party (PCC) through Farc more than 50 years ago. One of the sponsors of the rally is precisely the son of one of the ideologists of the combination of all forms of struggle, motto that the PCC used to create peasant self-defense groups, that later became known as Farc.
Other Farc supporters create commotion with the liberation process topic and manage to do a hypocritical declaration emphasizing that Farc are putting a halt to extortive kidnapping. Nevertheless, nothing is said about 750 Colombians that still remain captive. These crimes have been silenced by guerrillas, Movice and other NGOs that supposedly defend human rights. Forced recruitment of children and adolescents, whom are used as sex slaves or cannon fodder, are also victims that no one mentions.
These are the true victims of conflict who no one speaks about. They are not the ones that promote clashes serving as militias, informants, economic supporters or politicians that conformed illegal self-defense groups.
This has been a dramatic story that has repeated itself for more than 50 years. From a legitimate scenario people and organizations abuse democracy and defend assassins in the name of communism. However, they have showed their real nature: narco-terrorists. Story repeats itself. Indifference of authorities towards those who look for national or international political recognition has allowed criminal organizations to jeopardize any authority in remote regions of the country.
It’s time to rise and reject once and for all and through every legal mean, any institutional weakness with regard to Farc. These warlords have to know that Colombia will never yield and that Colombians support their Armed Forces in the decisive battle to return peace to our suffered country.
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