Colombia, State terrorism
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- Created on: 23-04-16 17:33
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- Colombia, State Terrorism & FARC
- FARC
- An income of over £300 million, over 20,000 soldiers
- 'Defends the peasants working in their territory, and exercises control and influence' (McDougall, 2009)
- Builds schools, hospitals, collects taxes
- Revenues from gold mining
- Counter-Terrorism and govt response
- (Zackrison, 2002) The issue is not seen as one of terrorism - society does not recognise/admit it exists. There is no overall counter terrorism strategy
- One of the most brutal campaigns of state terror in the world (Raphael, 2010)
- Responding to govts inability to provide security
- Paramilitaries are in many ways a symptom of state-weajness, developing largely as a replacement (McDougall, 2009)
- Negotiations, failed in 1980s and late 1990s
- Peace Talks, President Uribe's tough line 2002-2010 - key FARC leaders captured/killed
- 'Never before had a peace process made so much progress (FARC negotiator)
- The Peace talks may not work, they have never been succesful
- Will this only be a short-term solution
- 'Never before had a peace process made so much progress (FARC negotiator)
- Small agenda vs large agenda
- Small: Offering rebels amnesty and asking them in treurn to renounce plans of transformation
- Large: Negotiations wrong, these outlaws must be repressed! (Pres. AYALA).
- Ambivalent response, combining military and repressive measures with measures of negotiated reconciliation (Waldmann, P. (2007)
- FARC
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