FARC responsible for devastating Afro-Colombian community with 3 times natl murder rate: HRW

[Bacchus4.0]

http://colombiareports.co/devastating-effects-rebel-groups-tumaco-colombia/


Colombia’s southwestern city of Tumaco, mostly populated by Afro-Colombians, has experienced more than three times the national rate of murders from 2011 to 2013 as a result of guerrilla atrocities, according to the latest data released by the Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The country’s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and succeeding paramilitary groups are reported to be responsible for the abuses, killings, disappearances, tortures, kidnappings, forced displacement, forced recruitment, and death threats in Tumaco, according to HRW.

-------------------
“The abuses of the FARC are having a devastating effect on Afro-Colombian communities in Tumaco,” said Jose Miguel Vivanco, America’s director for Human Rights Watch in a statement.

“The FARC exercised tight control over the lives of many residents of Tumaco, who are forced to remain silent while the guerrillas installed mines in their fields, expelled them from their homes and kill their neighbors and loved ones with impunity.”

[Bacchus4.0]

1. HRW link

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/30/colombia-farc-battering-afro-colombian-areas

[Marksman_91]

2. But the FARC are nothing but peace-loving freedom fighters fighting for what's right

They would NEVER do something so atrocious like bomb civilian areas or kidnapp random citizens for ransom or participate in drug trafficking...

[Bacchus4.0]

3. Only in the name of social justice would they do such things n/t