Peace Signatory Killed in Cauca, Colombia
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July 26, 2024 Hour: 10:44 pm
The victim was identified as Emilio Campo Dagua, who was being reintegrated in Cauca.
The Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz) in Colombia denounced this Friday the murder of a signatory of the Agreement of Peace in Corinto, located in the department of Cauca.
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“Emilio Campo Dagua was the signatory of the agreement, who is currently carrying out his reintegration process in the department of Cauca,” the agency said.
Similarly, he pointed out that the signatory was killed at about 10:45 (local time) inside his home in the La Cominera street, in the municipality of Corinto. Meanwhile, the circumstances of the facts are not yet known.
The Ombudsman’s Office issued an early warning (AT) 031/23, which includes the municipality of Corinto, where it states “the continuing risk situation, which is becoming more acute against persons who have signed the Peace Agreement (ex-combatants) and are in the process of being reintegrated into the armed conflict and violence following expansion actions, advance and dispute by armed groups in the area”.
Given the violence in our department, we urgently call for citizen mobilization for respect for life, for non-involvement of the civilian population in the armed conflict and for respecting humanitarian minimums. Cauca deserves to live in Peace.
Among the groups operating in the area, Indepaz points to the Dagoberto Ramos Front of the Western Bloc Jacobo Arenas, the 57 Yair Bermúdez Front, Tránsito ELN and local gangs.
Since this last report, Indepaz confirms that they have murdered 16 signatories of the Peace Agreement in 2024.
Meanwhile, the platform Colombia Informa had announced that the United Nations Verification Mission (UN), in a report in the first half of the year, reported that the Colombian Public Prosecutor’s Office has only achieved 71 convictions out of 498 investigations it conducts.
For crimes against peace-making ex-combatants, the prosecution has only had a 16 percent conviction rate.
According to the UN Observation Mission, of the 71 convictions obtained by the Prosecutor’s Office for crimes against former FARC combatants, two were against women, six against Afro-Colombians and 14 against indigenous.
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Fuente: @Indepaz
