00:00Villages attacked with cylinder bombs, families forced to flee, use of anti-personnel mines
00:04and police officers killed after surrendering. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace charged
00:09to nine former chiefs of the former Central Joint Command of the demobilized FARC, so that
00:13answer for their alleged responsibility in serious war crimes and offenses of
00:17Crimes against humanity committed in the departments of Tolima, Huila, and Quindío. The accused
00:22They are Pablo Catatumbo Torres Victoria, alias Pablo Catatumbo, Luis Eduardo Rayo, alias
00:27Marlon, Enocapera Trujillo, alias Giovanni or Giovanni Castro, John Jairo Oliveros Grisales,
00:33alias Armando Pipas, Gustavo Bocanegra Ortegón, alias Donald or Donald Ferreira, Nelson Antonio
00:38Jiménez Gantiba, alias Gonzalo, Wilson Ramírez Guzmán, alias Teófilo González, Víctor Hugo
00:43Silva Soto, alias Erick or El Chivo and Raúl Agudelo Medina, alias Olivo Saldaño.
00:48These individuals appearing before the court are called upon to acknowledge responsibility for war crimes.
00:53of homicide of a protected person, including members of the public force who are out of combat,
01:00forced displacement, convictions or executions without due process, torture, cruel treatment,
01:08attacks against personal dignity, directing attacks against the civilian population, directing attacks
01:15against protected objects such as hospitals, schools or churches, destroying the enemy's property without them
01:23would justify the military necessity and give no quarter, that is, give the order that no one should remain.
01:29adversary alive. In addition, the JEP also charged him with the war crimes of looting, killing or
01:35to inflict harm through treachery, prohibited deception, and the use of anti-personnel mines. They will also have to
01:40to answer for crimes against humanity such as murder, forced transfer, enforced disappearance,
01:44Torture and persecution. This decision, then, in addition to identifying those most responsible,
01:51It also honors the accounts of the victims and gives an account of the harm they suffered, and that in turn
01:57It is representative of what almost a thousand victims accredited before the JEP also suffered.
02:03events attributed to the now-defunct Central Joint Command of the FARC. This investigation by the JEP
02:09He documented multiple events that marked the history of the region. For example, the simultaneous capture of pain,
02:14Rapists, Villarrica, Prado, Laradán Alpujarra, Tolima and Varayahuila in November 1999. The takeover
02:21from the township of Puerto Saldaña in Río Blanco, Tolima, which lasted more than a month between April 1st
02:26and on May 8, 2000. The investigation concluded that the actions of the Joint Command
02:32The FARC-EP Central Command caused profound and irreparable damage to people's lives and
02:37communities. The use of weapons, with indiscriminate effects in urban areas, the destruction
02:45housing and infrastructure, forced displacement and the indiscriminate use of mines
02:51anti-personnel attacks violate human dignity, destroyed life projects, fractured the
02:59links with the territory. Its consequences, expressed in permanent injuries, affected
03:06emotional distress, emotional and moral harm, and uprooting prolonged the suffering of the
03:13victims and left a mark that transcended generations. That is why this decision
03:19It is also a call to action amidst the ongoing conflict in Colombia, which has not yet ended.
03:25These crimes must never be repeated.
03:28Learn more about that decision by the JEP at www.elespectador.com
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