Over 1,300 ‘terrorists’ out of combat in 2014: Colombia Min of Defense
Colombia’s Ministry of Defense has announced that 1,374 combatants of illegally armed groups...
Tag: demobilized
Future demobilized combatants to be banned from politics
The Colombian government has definitively “closed the door” to the possibility of future demobilized fighters being able to participate in politics. The Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras said the proposed...
Santos asks Congress to approve legislation to reintegrate ex-paramilitaries
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos called on Congress Wednesday to approve draft legislation intended to prevent the return of 25,000 demobilized ex-combatants to illegal armed groups, newspaper El Espectador reported....
Demobilized guerrillas caught extorting civilians
Two demobilized guerrillas from the FARC and ELN have been captured while receiving an extortion payment in Ibague, the capital of the central Colombian department Tolima, El Espectador reported on Wednesday. The military...
‘AUC’ threatens judges on San Andres island
Judicial officials on the Colombian island of San Andres have received threats signed with the name of demobilized paramilitary group the AUC, reports Caracol Radio. The Administrative Court Circuit of San Andres have dismissed...
Ex-guerrillas claim govt plotted fake FARC surrender
Ex-guerrillas testify that the government collaborated with a FARC prisoner and a drug trafficker to stage the fake surrender of dozens of FARC members, La FM reported Wednesday. On March 7, 2006, 66 guerrillas from the...
164 guerrillas demobilized in January: Govt
Some 164 members of leftist guerrilla groups demobilized in January, the government announced Tuesday. According to a report by the Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized, 145 of the demobilized belonged to the...
Proposed bill aims to treat all fighters equally
A bill presented to Colombia’s Congress Friday seeks to provide equal treatment for both soldiers and demobilized paramilitaries who are facing trial, reported newspaper El Nuevo Siglo. “It is very difficult to...
Indigenous reintigreate demobilized guerrillas
The Association of Indigenous Councils in North Cauca’s (ACIN) in souteast Colombia has implemented its own re-immersion program for demobilized guerillas, reported newspaper El Tiempo Monday. ACIN tells the story of...
Freed ex-FARC member confesses to over 200 crimes
Demobilized FARC commander Elda Neyis “Karina” Mosquera Garcia, who was named as “manager of peace” by former President Alvaro Uribe, has confessed to 218 crimes, including multiple homicides and...
