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The Colombian president, Gustavo Pedroassured this Wednesday that “to destroy“the peace agreement with the FARC provoked the exponential growth of massacres that have occurred in recent years in the country and criticized what he called “double standards”from the opposition party Radical change.
The head of state responded to the publication of Radical change from a table in which the graphs show that this year there were 93 massacres and in 2022, 94, while in 2021 there were 71 and in 2020 the number reached 52.
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“I don’t like this table, it’s the number of massacres carried out per year. It was published by an opposition party: Cambio Radical”, wrote Petro on his account on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Then he added: “If you analyze, hence the double standards of the Radical Change party and the Democratic Center. It was in the Government that they supported (that of Uribista Iván Duque) where the massacres occurred after his fall with the peace agreements”.
The Colombian Government and those now demobilized FARC guerrilla They signed a peace agreement in 2016.
The arrival of the now former president to the Government Ivan Duque (2018-2022) represented an impasse in the implementation of this agreement.
In his message today, Petro concluded that “the destruction of peace cost this exponential growth in the number of massacres in the Government of Duque”.
“The 2023 number shows that growth has stopped, but I don’t like that at all. This curve should decrease substantially under my Government“, said the president.
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According to him Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), this year 93 massacres were carried out in Colombia and between December 16 and 22, 11 violent events occurred in Caucaamong them the massacre of five indigenous people and the murder of the mayor of Guachene.
Meanwhile, the Office in Colombia of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that between January and November this year it received 214 reports of murders of human rights defenders, of which it verified 69.
In turn, the Colombian Ombudsman reported that between January and November 163 social leaders and human rights defenders were murdered, 30 of them in Cauca.
Source: Elcomercio
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