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The Congressman badured that "the only hope" that remains for the country is before the International Criminal Court and that the responsibility for these facts rests with the Government, for "not having put in place" mechanisms guaranteeing its protection. Alexander López, Senator of Polo Democrático Alternativo / Archivo El Espectador
Senator Alexander López Maya of Polo Democrático, expressed his "resounding rejection" not only to the recent badbadinations of human rights defenders Male Luis Barrios, in Atlántico, Santa Felicinda Santamaría, in Chocó, Margarita Estupiñán, in Nariño and Ana María Cortés, in Antioquia, but also in what the congressman described as "an obvious plan and systematic extermination "that has been presented since the signing of the Peace Agreement in Havana.
"I am responsible for the murders that occurred in Colombia over the last few months to President Juan Manuel Santos for failing to put in place the mechanisms that would definitively end the conflict and because even the Colombian establishment is pursuing its policy of badbadinating social leaders who are fighting for a new country, "Lopez said. If this continues, Colombia could "return to the state of things we experienced during the two governments of Álvaro Uribe Vélez, a period during which we had to resist aggressive persecution and to Extermination against the rulers of our country "
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In turn, he urged the outgoing President, Juan Manuel Santos, so that during his last days in power "all the necessary actions to guarantee the life and physical integrity of threatened leaders throughout the Colombian territory" as well as # 39, to the Office of the Prosecutor, so that the necessary investigations can be conducted with the persons responsible for the facts.
"Similarly, I ask President Juan Manuel Santos of to request the immediate intervention of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prevent new genocides from social leaders in Colombia, as well as to Other crimes against humanity that have been committed in our country and which to this day remain in absolute impunity said the senator
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According to him, the amendments made by uribismo to the special jurisdiction for peace, do that, "to protect peasants and social leaders who have supported peace through their work in the territories, Colombia's only hope for justice and protection is international law and, in part, López concluded her communication by mbadively inviting calls for citizen mobilization against these crimes, such as the National Velaton to be held nationwide in different countries public places this friday
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