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February 16th, 2018 
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nsnbc : 14 months after the signing of the peace accord between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP) and the State, the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), reports that paramilitaries, guerrillas and drug traffickers carried our 27% more attacks on civilians in 2017.
FARC leader Molina assassinated in August 2017 under the watchful eyes of security forces.
The peace accord between the State and the country’s largest Marxist guerrilla in December 2016 and the following demobilization of FARC-EP guerrilla and the transformation of the guerrilla into a political party using the acronym FARC upset a delicate balance of power.
The OCHA reports that mass displacement as a consequence of violence by these illegal armed groups went up 53%. The OCHA also stressed that it registered a “deterioration in humanitarian indicators in 2017 [that] evidences the need to continue with the humanitarian response in the country in 2018.” According to the UN office, one in 10 Colombians is in need of humanitarian assistance, also due to “the persistence of institutional presence and social investment vacuums.”
In 2017 an increase in the number of mass displacement events, threats and homicides of social leaders was registered, and cases of forced recruitment and GBV continue being reported. Attacks against the civilian population have shown an increase with regards to last year, the OCHA stated.
The administration of President Juan Manuel Santos has come under international pressure over the failure to comply with key elements of a peace deal with the Marxist FARC-EP guerrilla and its successor political party FARC. While the state failed to enter abandoned FARC territory, “non-state armed actors … have extended their presence and actions” in these areas “and continue causing victimizing acts,” according to the UN.
AGC fighters – 2016
“As a result, mass displacements, recruitment, threats and assassinations to human rights leaders and defenders, homicides, sexual violence, restrictions on mobility and confinement still pose great challenges for consolidating respect for human rights,” the humanitarian office of the UN said. The OCHA also underlined that the humanitarian and protection needs posed by the continued armed conflict and generalized violence also disproportionally aggravate the unequal social and economic situation. This is in turn creating new and greater protection risks, particularly for identified vulnerable populations such as: boys, girls, adolescents and youth as well as afro and indigenous communities, said the OCHA.
Recalling that the EU, Britain, and particularly Norway as guarantor nation for the peace talks with the FARC-EP and now also with the National Liberation Army (ELN) are acutely aware of the situation in Colombia, it is worth noting that European observers stressed that the government has failed to execute more than 80% of the peace agreement and refuses to acknowledge the paramilitary groups that operate in the countryside, often with the help of rogue elements within the military and far-right political forces.
CH/L – nsnbc 15.02.2018
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