Even archbishops receive death threats for supporting peace in Colombia

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

written by Adriaan Alsema December 19, 2016



Colombia’s recent wave of assassinations and death threats against rights defenders and community leaders has reached a new low after the archbishop of Cali, an active supporter of peace, received a death threat.

“Death to the FARC, to Santos and to all communist clergies,” Archbishop Dario de Jesus Monsalve was told in a letter addressed to him but delivered at the home of an assistant clergy.

The letter is the latest act or threat of deadly violence that has marred opposition to the peace processes sought by President Juan Manuel Santos who received a Nobel Peace Prize for successfully negotiating peace with the FARC.

But the FARC peace deal, and in particular its transitional justice clause, has opened a cesspool of political violence and crime left in impunity when paramilitary group AUC demobilized between 2003 and 2006.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Colombia: Serious Situation Due to Selective Murders, Says Prelate

Colombia: Serious Situation Due to Selective Murders, Says Prelate


Bogota, Dec 19 (Prensa Latina) Cali''s archbishop, monsignor Dario de Jesus Monsalve, said today the situation Colombia was currently going through, due to selective assassinations of social leaders human rights activists, as part of a genocidal mechanism.

There is a permanent atmosphere of threat. This situation make us think of reactivation of that fatal mechanism in the history of this country, the religious man remarked in statements to the station RCN La Radio.

In his opinion, the campaigns for the Yes and the No options in October, rarefied even more the atmosphere in the country, due to intolerant actions and speeches by some leaders.

The prelate, who has also received intimidating messages, warned about what he called an counter-communist crusade.

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