Combatants of the now extinct FARC.EP guerrilla
The Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) has reported the homicide of Diego Mauricio Mejía Rojas, a former guerrilla member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and signatory of the Peace Agreement in 2016. “This signatory was assassinated within the Los Prados neighborhood, within the municipality of Puerto Asís, Putumayo, by armed males who had been mobilizing on a motorbike,” reads an announcement from the company.
Mejía, who’s the sixth peace signatory to be assassinated in 2023, was presently working within the specialised sub-directorate of the National Protection Unit (UNP), a state physique answerable for defending individuals beneath menace in Colombia. He was additionally a member of the Departmental Council of the Commons Party in his area. According to the Comunes part of the National Reincorporation Council, a complete of 374 ex-FARC combatants have been killed because the peace settlement was signed in November 2016.
The UNP has added that Mejía was a member of the Memoria Viva union, and has conveyed its condolences to his household and to the neighborhood of peace signatories. “We ask the authorities answerable for administering justice for outcomes,” the unit has indicated.
The Colombian Ombudsman’s Office has indicated that “deterrence, management and mitigation of the menace context have to be ensured from a give attention to human safety and the safety of communities, leaders, human rights defenders and signatories of the peace settlement which can be in danger because of the presence and fixed threats by the armed teams which can be current within the territory”.
Indepaz additionally reported on Sunday the dying of the indigenous chief Luis Alberto Quiñones Cortés within the Nariño area, who had lately been forcibly displaced from his territory, had acquired complaints and had safety measures from the UNP.
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