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The Central General Staff, the main dissidence group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), will propose to the government of Gustavo Petro to start a peace table in Norway. This is a gesture of gratitude for the Scandinavian country’s past support for the peace process in Colombia. Peasants and dissidents prepare a large rally to affirm their “sincere and real commitment” to negotiate peace.
“In Colombia, peace can be made from the territories, but a peace with social justice,” said the rebel commander known by his nom de guerre Andrey Avendaño this Saturday. He did it from the south of Colombia, where this dissident force of the FARC met with peasants to define a common negotiation position. Along with him, other commanders, on behalf of the Central General Staff (EMC), a group that in 2016 refused to sign the peace agreement between the then government of Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist guerrillas.
The military chiefs of the EMC have been meeting since the beginning of April in San Vicente del Caguan, in the Caquetá region, a historical stronghold of the FARC, to define their strategy in future peace talks with the government.
At the initiative of the leftist President Petro, a six-month bilateral ceasefire was agreed upon on January 1 with the main factions of the FARC dissidents. The rebels, however, accused the government of having breached this ceasefire.
In the middle of last week, the government announced that the peace process with the EMCs was “consolidating”.
The rebels are organizing a large rally for this Sunday with the communities and peasant organizations of the regions under their control. “We are invited by the communities to respond to some concerns” about the ongoing peace process, Avendaño assured. This Sunday the conclusions of a recent “meeting of commanders” on their aspirations at the future dialogue table will be announced and they will announce a date for the start of negotiations.
The six-decade-long conflict in Colombia between guerrillas, drug traffickers, paramilitaries and state agents leaves a balance of more than nine million victims, and no less than 450,000 homicides.
With (AFP)
