¿Armed strike in Choco? There is no armed strike because Farc doesn’t have any type or armed power that inhibits normal life activities of people in this department. It is a terrorist action that attacks collectively and paralyzes citizens.
Threatening the weakest and unprotected to claim a power that they don’t possess cannot be considered a success for the insurgents. It would’ve been a triumph if the population supports and armed group, decides willingly to suspend their daily duties and demands the State to embrace policies that respond to the ideological purpose of such group.
Assassinating a humble bus driver to force enterprises suspend their travelling routes, shooting fishermen’s’ lodgings or launching 4 improvised explosives devices against humble houses in Bojaya, it’s not precisely an example of Farc’s courage or political victory. On the contrary, it shows they are desperately coward and that have politically failed by using criminal and delinquent tools to impose themselves through fear.
Chocoan’s have answered with dignity. During the last few days, Quibdo has marched and other communities demand narcoterrorists to respect their fundamental rights. Farc not only threatens to murder civilians that don’t abide to their terrorist messages of imposing an inexistent armed strike, they also isolate them psychologically and halt all transportation of products such as food, fuel, health related. It’s a crime against humanity. Medieval places and Farc became outdated many years ago.
Nothing can be expected from a criminal organization whose leader lives in the past. He even delivers irrational speeches in Latin and is convinced that nothing has changed since the Berlin Wall fell.
Rejected by the entire world, these terrorists hide in the jungle and threaten small communities to show that they still exist. They use terrorism over native and afrocolombian communities so that their organizations speak out and use insurgent’s arguments as their own.
This week’s terrorist actions of Farc in Choco have nothing to envy of those criminal strategies applied by ‘Los Rastrojos’ last month. In that opportunity NGO’s defending Human Rights, MOVICE, Colombians For Peace and law firms spoke out claiming urgent actions from the State against “paramilitarism”, however they have remained complicity silent about what is happening in Choco.
Farc put in grave danger civil population, but it seems in this case that for those NGO’s rights of victims are not considered as such.
The IV Convention of UN of 1949, related to protecting civil population during war or non-international conflict, compels Farc although cynically during times of the demilitarized zone because alias ‘Tirofijo’ affirmed that it wasn’t signed. NGO’s and our judicial authorities cannot forget that the infringement of this international regulation is a felony against humanity. Omission to investigate and sanction facts like the one that is happening in Choco, give the International Criminal Court competence to intervene and investigate the authors and sponsors of such crimes.
Sooner or later our justice system has to expose narco-terrorists and those who politically shelter at their expense. Colombian conflict cannot keep prolonging because of a democratic misconception of impunity towards illegal armed groups and their supporters. What is happening in Choco deserves an overwhelming answer of all Colombian society.
There is no need to be an expert to conclude that once Farc accomplish their criminal operation against Choco, their followers will keep insisting on the release of kidnapped military men. With this strategy they seek to diminish public attention of those who demand punishment towards the same sponsors of illegal abductions.
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