Unless government acts, Colombia at dawn of new political genocide: Leftist leader
Source: Colombia Reports
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 partys members, virtually exterminating the entire political party.
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