The National Council of the People, the highest level of leadership of the People’s Revolutionary Alternative Force  (FARC), met for an emergency meeting called by the party president, Rodrigo Londono 'Timochenko', to analyze the serious security situation that affects the militancy and the country.

It is a situation which has already claimed the life of 133 former guerrillas, 34 of their relatives as well as 11 disappeared, who join the more than 600 social leaders and human rights defenders murdered for their leadership role in their communities, since the signature of the Peace Agreement in November 2016.

In the final statement the FARC said: "These systematic assassinations constitute a clear violation of the Final Agreement for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Lasting Peace; and, therefore, they are the responsibility of the State and the government, which constitutionally are in the obligation to guarantee the life and security of all Colombians, including the signatories of the Peace Agreement and the social leaders, as it is stated in point 3.4 of the Agreement."

The FARC added: "The stigmatization campaign launched against our party, its militants and leaders, from the bench of the governing party, Democratic Center, and the president himself, is also unacceptable and in some way stimulates the criminal instincts of those who tighten the triggers; and that constitutes a campaign of political persecution and harassment against those of us who are signatories of a peace treaty with the State."

The FARC continued: "Given the seriousness of the situation and the prospects of its resurgence, on the occasion of the upcoming local and regional elections, we issue a call to the guarantor countries, Cuba and Norway, of the presidents Pepe Mujica and Felipe González, who make up the group of notables, as well as of the Second Mission of the United Nations Organization, whose Security Council will soon visit Colombia, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, given that our party will hardly have full guarantees of participation in said electoral process."

The FARC reiterate their commitment to remain firm in the fulfillment of the agreement, and called "on all sectors of the nation to overcome indifference towards the bloodbath we are suffering; the moment demands all Colombians to take their responsibility, to avoid that the longed for peace, ends up drowned in a pool of blood. Only the most vigorous mobilization of millions of Colombians who bet on peace will be able to stop the criminal plans of those who benefit economically, politically and socially from the war."