Colombia Still under Paramilitary Threat Despite Ease of Tension
Colombia Still under Paramilitary Threat Despite Ease of Tension
Bogota, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) Leaders of the Marcha Patriótica (MP) movement and the Broad Front for Peace said today that military confrontation is easing, but warned of an intensification of other expressions of the conflict like paramilitarism.
The downward trend in the impact of the conflict continues, but unfortunately other scourges prevail, like the presence of paramilitary groups and the repression against candidates of alternative parties, denounced today the MP spokesman David Flores in remarks to Canal Capital.
Since July 20, the insurgents Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) decreed their sixth ceasefire to minimize the effects of the internal war and advance towards its end. Their decision was followed by the presidential order to suspend the bombings of FARC-EP camps.
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In reiterated pronouncements, human rights activists, politicians and even members of the FARC-EP urged to dismantle the paramilitary structures to secure an atmosphere of detente and reconciliation in Colombia, which has been torn by the war for over half a century.
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