By: Daniel Nardini
Recently, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC in Spanish) has announced that they will no longer use kidnapping as a weapon against the Colombian government or against the Colombian civilian population. This announcement was made as the practice has generated so much negative publicity over the years that most Colombians have turned against the FARC for its kidnapping and violent armed acts. Of course, the FARC has not renounced its use of armed conflict nor its part in the illicit cocaine drug trade. Giving up one evil only to keep the others makes its announcement ring kind of hollow. To this I say to the FARC, “why don’t you just lay down your arms and simply end the Colombian civil war?”
Why not end 50 years of armed conflict that you have been responsible for? This conflict has killed an estimated 200,000 people, and because of you it still goes on. Why not give up your involvement in the illicit cocaine drug trade? Behind the Mexican drug cartels, you are the second major reason why the cocaine trade is doing well. Not only are you guilty of the illicit drug trade, but you forcefully extend it into neighboring countries against the will of the people and governments. On top of all this, you bomb cities and machine gun down innocent people. You are guilty of taking peoples’ land and destroying farms, and you are guilty of burning tracts of arable land of villages whose people simply do not agree with your insane ideology. You are guilty of genocide against the native Indians, and are guilty of killing innocent foreign residents in order to drive away business and investments from Colombia. In short, you are guilty of crimes against humanity a thousand times over. FARC, do us all a favor and disappear tomorrow!
I seriously doubt that the leopard will change its spots. Fine, they say they are giving up one tool in their arsenal of terror. However, they have not given up anything else, and it seems doubtful that the FARC will do the Colombian a favor and turn in their weapons and try and work through a legal process to help their country. The FARC still seems committed to bringing about a revolution and they will use revolutionary terror to achieve this. Given their track record, how credible are these people?
FARC, Do Us All a Favor
By: Daniel Nardini
Why not end 50 years of armed conflict that you have been responsible for? This conflict has killed an estimated 200,000 people, and because of you it still goes on. Why not give up your involvement in the illicit cocaine drug trade? Behind the Mexican drug cartels, you are the second major reason why the cocaine trade is doing well. Not only are you guilty of the illicit drug trade, but you forcefully extend it into neighboring countries against the will of the people and governments. On top of all this, you bomb cities and machine gun down innocent people. You are guilty of taking peoples’ land and destroying farms, and you are guilty of burning tracts of arable land of villages whose people simply do not agree with your insane ideology. You are guilty of genocide against the native Indians, and are guilty of killing innocent foreign residents in order to drive away business and investments from Colombia. In short, you are guilty of crimes against humanity a thousand times over. FARC, do us all a favor and disappear tomorrow!
I seriously doubt that the leopard will change its spots. Fine, they say they are giving up one tool in their arsenal of terror. However, they have not given up anything else, and it seems doubtful that the FARC will do the Colombian a favor and turn in their weapons and try and work through a legal process to help their country. The FARC still seems committed to bringing about a revolution and they will use revolutionary terror to achieve this. Given their track record, how credible are these people?