US EditionColombia says former FARC rebels have not kept promises to surrender cash and gold
FARC has delivered only 17% of promised cash and a fraction of rural properties, limiting reparations funding for victims of Colombia's conflict, the Inspector General's Office said.
- In the latest report, officials said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is violating the 2016 agreement by failing to relinquish gold, land and other assets.
- Under the deal, assets were to be transferred to the Society of Special Assets to be sold and fund reparation projects such as rural infrastructure, memorials and truth events.
- The Inspector General's Office said FARC handed over only one of 722 rural properties, 17% of the cash, and 252 of 444 kilograms of promised gold.
- The Special Jurisdiction for Peace, or JEP, currently lacks funds to implement truth and reparation rulings, and the Inspector General's Office said the small asset handover undermines efforts to help victims of Colombia's conflict.
- Disarmament in 2016 was followed by increased violence in rural areas where smaller rebel groups fight for former FARC territory, and Jose Lisandro Lascarro, known as `Pastor Alape`, cited security problems, lack of titles and buried cash controlled by others for asset nonhandover.
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Colombia says former FARC rebels have not kept promises to surrender cash and gold
Officials in Colombia say that the former rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is violating a 2016 peace deal with the Colombian government by failing to relinquish gold, land and other assets to fund reparations for the group’s victims.
The control body found that they have barely given 17% of the cash. This is the investment made with the little money delivered.
The Comptroller’s Office warned that the demobilized guerrillas of the FARC did not deliver all the goods they promised to give to repair the victims. The Comptroller’s Office (tribunal of accounts) warned that the demobilized guerrillas of the FARC did not deliver all the goods they promised to give to repair the victims of the armed conflict when they signed the peace agreement with the Government in November 2016. “The assets delivered by the…
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