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April 26th, 2017 
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nsnbc : Colombia’s leftist National Liberation Army (ELN), currently holding official peace talks with the government, accused Colombia’s national army of actively supporting the right-wing neo-paramilitary group AGC a.k.a. Los Urabenos.
Los Urabenos, Colombia’s non-existent neo-paramilitaries. Some say that one has to be a Colombian to understand how it feels when one’s family has been massacred by a nobody. (archives)
Carlos Reyes, one of the ELN’s negotiators in the peace talks with the Colombian government gave an interview with Verdad Abierta, stressing that the AGC’s current offensive against ELN guerrilla in northwestern Colombia “enjoys the full support of the military”. Referring to the AGC, Reyes said:
“This paramilitary group receives full support and intelligence and works in coordination with the state military forces that operate in the Choco region. There is no way to explain how they are as free as a bird to move large numbers of forces in this area. … In Choco there has been confrontation for years with the paramilitary groups and the Colombian army that uses them. They have used them as shock troops against the guerrillas and as a source of terror for the social movement and political tendencies opposed to the regime.
The AGC a.k.a. Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia or Los Urabenos is a successor organization of the “officially” disbanded AUC. The AGC was formed in Colombia’s northwest about a decade ago. However, the group has expanded its territory considerably and is increasingly filling the power vacuum that was created when the FARC-EP began to demobilize and the ELN began to keep a lower profile to facilitate peace talks with the government.
Colombian rights organizations were right when they warned that tens of thousands of rights activists, grassroots activists and leftist politicians in areas where the FARC demobilized were at risk. As predicted, the price of Colombia’s peace process is paid in blood as right-wing paramilitaries and crime cartels fill the power vacuum.
Right-wing paramilitaries including the AGC a.k.a. Los Urabenos and the Aguilas Negras are filling the power vacuum as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP) demobilizes and the government fails to fill the power vacuum with a sufficient number of and properly organized military and police forces.
Extreme radicals like the Aguilas Negras who primarily recruit among socio-economically underprivileged youth in Colombia’s gangland environment of Medellin threaten social cleansing of “undesirables” including rival drug dealers, leftist activists and politicians, human rights activists and grassroots activists, members of the LGBT community and prostitutes.
Meanwhile the peace talks between the Colombian government and the leftist national Liberation Army (ELN) continue. Right-wing paramilitaries, especially the AGC is on standby to fill a power vacuum should the ELN disarm and demobilize in traditionally ELN controlled areas. Among the ranks of demobilizing FARC guerrilla there is an atmosphere of mistrust and among many, readiness to take up the armed struggle in new guerrilla organizations if the government fails to protect them and traditionally FARC controlled communities.
British documentary filmmaker Toby Muse visited Colombia and has spoken with victims of the wave of assassinations as well as with AGC and Aguilas Negras members. Of course his short documentary cannot cover all of the aspects of the impending cris. His film is, however, an important contribution that helps raise awareness and warmly recommended by nsnbc international editor-in-chief Christof Lehmann, who recommended earlier that demobilized FARC-EP and ELN members could be integrated into Colombia’s military and police forces.
A/N – nsnbc 25.04.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/04/25/eln-blasts-clombian-military-for-supporting-right-wing-agc-paramilitaries/
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