The FARC (People’s Alternative Revolutionary Force) Party has denounced the murder of a former guerrilla.

Elivar Benavides Alegría, peace fighter in the process of reincorporation was murdered in Argelia, Cauca.

This murder brings to 75 the number of former guerrillas killed since the signing of the Final Peace Agreement, on 24 November 2016.

The FARC has converted into a legal political party as part of the Final Peace Agreement and after having decommissioned its weapons. However, while the former guerrillas have been respecting all parts of the agreement the government has been delaying and in fact not implementing what compete to it. In particular the safety measures for former guerrillas have not been guaranteed and paramilitaries have been carrying out murders and attacks without the state doing anything to prevent them.

Indeed, on a separate report, it has been confirmed that the body of social leader Maria Caicedo Muñoz, who was kidnapped by armed men a few days ago, again in Cauca region, has been found without life in a river.

The FARC has appealed to the international community to intervene to stop this long list of unpunished murders.