Esteban Guzmán Castro, signatory of peace, was murdered in the municipality of Buenos Aires, department of Cauca. He revealed that the victim was kidnapped in the El Carmen village and hours later found dead.
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After being kidnapped, the signer was taken to an unknown destination by criminals. His body was spotted with several bullet wounds on the road that connects Suárez with Timba, Cauca.
“These risks that the signatories of the peace agreement run have already been warned about several times by the Ombudsman’s Office in early warnings. And The response in human rights policy from the Ministry of the Interior has been insufficient. The groups that operate in the area are the Jaime Martínez front of the western bloc of the self-proclaimed Central General Staff and there is a transit of the ELN. Esteban Guzmán Castro is the 14th signatory of the peace agreement assassinated in 2024,” said Leonardo González, director of Indepaz.
Who is threatening the peace signatories?
The FARC dissidents are believed to be behind the threats to the signatories. They are at risk in the spaces of reincorporation. The situation is so critical that a group of people will travel to the nerve centers commission made up of the United Nations, guarantor countries and the national government.
The territorial space in Miravalle, Caquetá, where the demobilized FARC members who handed over their weapons in 2016, was declared a conflict zone. They live and carry out their productive projects.
The declaration of war was made by dissidents within the Central General Staff. These terrorists gave the demobilized people a period of 40 days to leave the place, under penalty of threatening their lives. And all because they are accused of supporting guerrillas from the Second Marquetalia.
The displacement of the 140 families is imminent. However, the signatories launched an emergency proposal to President Gustavo Petro.
“A first gesture of desire for peace by the two armed factions is that they could establish a humanitarian zone in a de-escalation zone.” in Alto Pato to guarantee the lives of the signatories,” said Pastor Alape, general coordinator of implementation of the peace agreement.
That is to say, within the framework of the meetings with the Central General Staff of the FARC and the Second Marquetalia, both groups must commit themselves to not attack the Miravalle signatories or else they would incur a serious violation of the ceasefire.
This complaint has already been escalated to the international community and this Friday there will be an emergency meeting.
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