“In the past two months alone, more than 6,000 people have fled the fighting” in west Colombia, said the UNHCR, the agency monitoring displacement Monday. These clashes have already displaced many thousands over the past half year along the Pacific coast and in the north of the Antioquia province, both FARC strongholds disputed by the Urabeños. Violent clashes between guerrillas and paramilitary successor groups have already occurred inside FARC strongholds where they tax coca cultivators and drug traffickers. The guerrillas’ promised abandonment of illegal mining, to a lesser extent, could create a similar vacuum that is already vied for by other illegal armed group, mainly the neo-paramilitary “Urabeños,” or Auto-Defensas Gaitanistas de Colombia as they call themselves.īut with the country’s second largest guerrilla group, the ELN, struggling to agree to formal peace talks, this group may also pose a major threat and could move into allied FARC territory to take over guerrilla rackets.
Wars over control over the cultivation of coca, the plant used to make cocaine, is the biggest threat to benefits of a pending peace deal with the FARC and the government, said the United Nations.Īccording to Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia, the FARC’s eventual demobilization and disarmament could create a power vacuum in the criminal underworld.
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