Unless government acts, Colombia at dawn of new political genocide: Leftist leader

[Judi Lynn]

Unless government acts, Colombia at dawn of new political ‘genocide’: Leftist leader

written by Brian Levesque November 25, 2016


With 70 members killed and 232 having received death threats, the leader of social umbrella organization Patriotic March urged authorities to prevent the repetition of a political “genocide” that all but exterminated a political party in the 1980s.

“We can say that they are setting up a genocide against the Patriotic March (MP) and we do not want a repeat of the Patriotic Union (UP) nor that these things keep happening,” ex-senator Piedad Cordoba, the leader of the Patriotic March, said in a speech in Cali, Colombia.

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The UP was a political party formed by the FARC and non-violent leftist forces after a peace agreement was reached in 1985 and sought the transition of the guerrilla group into a political party.

However, state forces and paramilitaries embarked on a political extermination campaign that killed thousands of the party’s members, virtually exterminating the entire political party.

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http://colombiareports.com/unless-government-acts-colombia-dawn-new-political-genocide-leftist-leader/

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[WhiteTara]

1. The world is one reeling horror. nt

[Judi Lynn]

2. The people who profit from the war don't want it to end.

To get the war back would put them right back in charge, running the country, keeping the people outside the cities under control by conducting their war of terror on them, as before, and stealing the remaining land out from under the people who live on it, send them streaming to the cities, where there are no jobs, and sell their small farms to mining companies, or wealthy agriculturalists.

They love their war, the right-wing politicians, the military, the landowners, factory owners, other oligarchs. They make far more money with the war going on outside the cities, and #### the poor people who are suffering more and more each passing day the war continues, or threatens to return.

In time, the right is going to lose its power. Don't know how or when, but it is destined to happen. They can't harm the human race forever.