Colombia Peace shaken as two FARC members murdered

Two more former FARC guerrillas have been killed in the last 48 hours, bringing the number of former guerrillas murdered to 73.

Two years after Colombia signed the final peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), paramilitaries continued to be on the rampage and to kill not only former guerrillas but also Afrodiscendents, Indigenous, and Campesino community leaders.

Truth, justice, and reparations, the three pillars of the Final Peace Agreement, signed on November 2016, are being undermined by the impunity paramilitary groups benefit from and well-documented state collusion with national and transnational capital that continue to displace, dispossess, and murder social leaders and human rights defenders.

Local rights group Research Institute for Development and Peace, Indepaz, places the number of victims between November 2016 and May 2018 at 385, while teleSUR counted over 400 victims.

The last two victims were Yon Fabir Gómez Samboni, who was part of the body guard group set up by the FARC and former guerrilla Ricardo Guevara, murdered near the border with Ecuador.

While details of the murders remain unclear the FARC has issued a statement condemning these latest killings and calling for a prompt response to ensure the responsible of the crime are identified and brought to justice.