Ibagué
During the first Truth Recognition Hearing in Case 01 of kidnappings investigated by the JEP, Victims requested a precautionary measure on the San Bonifacio de Ibagué Cemetery to be able to locate the bodies of the missing in the midst of the violence exercised by the Central Joint Command of the FARC.
Precisely in this hearing 10 members of the extinct guerrilla who made up the Central Joint Command appearedpeople who recognized their responsibility for kidnappings that occurred in Tolima, northern Huila and Quindío.
Those appearing were Luis Eduardo Rayo, alias ‘Marlon’, Enoc Capera Trujillo, alias Giovanni, John Jairo Oliveros Grisales, alias ‘Armando Pipas,’ Nelson Antonio Jiménez, alias Gonzalo, Édgar Ramírez Medina, alias Onofre, Víctor Hugo Silva, alias Chivo, Álvaro López López alias JJGustavo Bocanegra alias ‘Donald’, Wilson Ramírez Guzmán alias ‘Teófilo González’ and Raúl Agudelo Medina, alias ‘Olivo Saldaña’.
They request a precautionary measure on the San Bonifacio de Ibagué cemetery
On this day where Eight accredited victims also participated in the process carried out by the JEP, Details of how the FARC kidnapped, extorted and murdered in the departments of Tolima, Quindío and Huila were known.
Precisely Rommel Alexander Ortiz, victim accredited before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, He blamed state entities because they have not been able to find his brother’s remains for 23 years. who was murdered in 2021.
“We blame the same Government, the same State, because of their ineptitude we have not been able to give him a burialwas fully identified in 2011, why don’t they give us the remains? To date they have carried out three exhumations, it turned out that in the protocol they stated that it was not him, they carried out another one that was also unsuccessful, this year they sent the remains to Medellín a case that may be his remains, we ask the JEP for agility in these processes,” Ortiz told Judge Julieta Lemeitre.
Finally, Ortiz asked the former members of the FARC to tell the truth and serve the country because after 23 years, they have not been able to find the body of their murdered relative.
“Now he is missing in the San Bonifacio Cemetery, That is why we ask that a working group be organized between the missing persons search unit, the Prosecutor’s Office, the JEP and us as a family to keep an eye on what is being done there.In addition, a precautionary measure be issued to the San Bonifacio Cemetery because we believe it is necessary, not only us, in the case of many people who have missing relatives who do not know where they are, in these vaults or cemeteries there are people who were murdered and are like NN, we ask that you intercede for us,” he said.
Finally, it should be noted that, within the framework of this hearing, the former head of the XXI Front of the FARC and leader of the Central Joint Command, Luis Eduardo Rayo, known in arms as ‘Marlon’ He pointed out that in recent months he has been a victim of threats and pressure from the Central General Staff.
