Colombia Support Network
August 25, 2016
COLOMBIA
SUPPORT NETWORK celebrates the agreement for ending the war achieved
yesterday in Havana between representatives of the Colombian Government
and the FARC guerrillas, ending the longest and bloodiest war in the
Western Hemisphere. The suffering that this war has caused is virtually
incalculable—1906 villages destroyed by massacres; 7 million displaced
peasants; 280,000 civilians killed by all the armed actors together; the
political genocide against the Union Patriotica Party formed by the
FARC after a previous peace agreement; the suffering of the kidnapped
victims; the “false disappeared” —civilians killed purposely by the
Colombian Army in order to increase their body count; the more than
45,000 disappeared due to the conflict; the thousands of women raped and
humiliated. The paramilitaries, whose favorite tactic was to cut people
alive with chainsaws, wreaked havoc in the countryside. People fled in
terror, leaving behind their land and possessions, which went into the
hands of the attackers. All of this we fervently hope will come to an
end.
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