Colombia accused of trying to ‘seriously damage’ peace deal
Colombian President Ivan Duque won elections promising to modify the deal to prevent former FARC leaders from becoming lawmakers. – EPA pic, March 12, 2019.
NEGOTIATORS of the historic peace pact between Colombia and the FARC rebel group warned the United Nations yesterday that President Ivan Duque’s government aims to “seriously damage” the accord. Delegates from the FARC and the government of former president Juan Manuel Santos sent a letter to United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres in which they questioned the objectives of reforms announced by Duque to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace , which was set up to try former combatants accused of atrocities during the five-decade war.
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