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In accordance with the peace agreement, the FARC will be judged for their abuses. Thirty-one former guerrilla leaders are charged with "unlawfully detaining people."
"We ask for forgiveness. In addition to the excuses, the head of the former Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces Guerrilla (FARC), Rodrigo Londono, aka "Tymoshenko", pledged to make "the impossible" ] so that the victims know the truth, during the trial Friday, July 13 for the abuses committed by leaders of the movement. "We will assume our responsibility" added Rodrigo Londono, after this first day of the trial in Bogota.
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As a result of the peace agreement reached with the government in 2016 in Havana, the FARC converted last year into a political party, keeping the same acronym. The former guerrillas, who also pledged to account for their crimes and to compensate their victims, are being prosecuted for 6,162 cases of kidnappings, committed between 1993 and 2012, among which that of the French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt, sequestered for six years until liberation by the military on July 2, 2008.
Shorter sentences
Justice convened thirty-one former guerrilla leaders on charges illegal of persons ". Only Tymoshenko, Pablo Catatumbo and Carlos Lozada – two other former FARC leaders – went to trial, with the other defendants having sent their lawyers. They all live at liberty, except for Jesús Santrich – another former US-detained drug trafficker – who has spoken by videoconference from his prison.
If they respect the agreement signed with the US Colombian government and abandon all violence, the former members of the guerrilla, become political party, serve shorter sentences, ranging from five to eight years incarceration in a place alternative to the prison.
"I am here at your disposal, deeply moved to see the way in which the dream we built in Havana " where the agreement that ended more than 50 years of conflict was concluded, said Tymoshenko.
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Nearly seven thousand guerrillas have since laid down their arms and the newly created Revolutionary Common Alternative Force will have ten deputies in Parliament from 20 July. However, the peace agreement still deeply divides Colombia, with some victims demanding the truth about the abductions of their loved ones and the fate of their lives before any leniency of justice.
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