Report: 48 members of leftist political party murdered in 2 years
Report: 48 members of leftist political party murdered in 2 years
May 15, 2014 posted by Alexandra Jolly
A religious social organization has condemned the multiple killings of members of a far left political party, local media reported on Thursday.
The Center for Research and Popular Education (CINEP), a religious organisation focused on social change, has spoken out about the “genocide” of members of the Patriotic March (Marcha Patriotica), with 48 people killed in the past two years.
The Patriotic March is a leftist political movement created in 2012 which claims to be searching for the “second and definitive independence.”
In a report in their magazine, Noche y Niebla, CINEP spoke out about the killings which are reportedly due to the affiliation of the political movement to Colombia’s oldest guerrilla group, the FARC.
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Problems caused by apparent FARC affiliation mirrors events that occurred during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the last time the FARC attempted to incorporate itself into civilian politics. The FARC created the Patriotic Union (Union Patriotica – UP), but drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitaries, often working with government authorities, engaged in the systematic assassination of up to 4,000 members of the leftist Patriotic Union. Some survivors are now members of the Marcha Patriotica.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/48-members-political-party-murdered-2-years/
