Renewed FARC Violence Exceeds Pre-Peace Talks Levels
by: Olle Ohlsen Pettersson
Published on January 27, 2013
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The rebel group in Colombia known as FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) has recently escalated its attacks; there has been 32 attacks on security forces and infrastructure in the week of January 20-26 which was the first week after the end of a ceasefire. Seven of these aforementioned attacks were directly on the country's oil and gas industries. The FARC has been in negotiations, however, to end over a half century of conflict.The Colombian government is outraged because they say that the FARC has broken the ceasefire on 57 different occasions by attacking objects like public security forces. The recent attacks by the FARC have been more aimed towards "soft" targets like oil industries or small police units - a change in strategy from attacking large army units.
I believe that the Colombian government and its president has a lot to deal with because the people probably want an end to the violence since many of their important economic infrastructure is being destroyed as well as innocent lives being lost. However, the FARC do want peace as often stated by many of its leading officials. But these recent attacks and new targets have muddied the water for the Colombian government in finding a suitable solution to an end to a 50-year conflict. I believe that the conflict has to end soon before the Colombians take too much economic or social damage from the FARC.
The politics involved with this article includes how the government wants to deal with the FARC. The recent attacks came before a chance to talk about peace and possibly signing a treaty of some sort. The government of Colombia has to deal with these attacks in a political way where it won't insult the rest of the FARC affiliation in other countries so that they do not receive more damage upon them.
Published on January 27, 2013
Click here to read this article!
The rebel group in Colombia known as FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) has recently escalated its attacks; there has been 32 attacks on security forces and infrastructure in the week of January 20-26 which was the first week after the end of a ceasefire. Seven of these aforementioned attacks were directly on the country's oil and gas industries. The FARC has been in negotiations, however, to end over a half century of conflict.The Colombian government is outraged because they say that the FARC has broken the ceasefire on 57 different occasions by attacking objects like public security forces. The recent attacks by the FARC have been more aimed towards "soft" targets like oil industries or small police units - a change in strategy from attacking large army units.
I believe that the Colombian government and its president has a lot to deal with because the people probably want an end to the violence since many of their important economic infrastructure is being destroyed as well as innocent lives being lost. However, the FARC do want peace as often stated by many of its leading officials. But these recent attacks and new targets have muddied the water for the Colombian government in finding a suitable solution to an end to a 50-year conflict. I believe that the conflict has to end soon before the Colombians take too much economic or social damage from the FARC.
The politics involved with this article includes how the government wants to deal with the FARC. The recent attacks came before a chance to talk about peace and possibly signing a treaty of some sort. The government of Colombia has to deal with these attacks in a political way where it won't insult the rest of the FARC affiliation in other countries so that they do not receive more damage upon them.