Alias ’Martín Sombra’ spoke at the give regarding the way in which the extinct FARC guerrilla operated and how the forced recruitment of minors worked in it.
He gave a stark testimony on how he was in charge of teaching all kinds of violent actions to children ranging from 10 to 15 years.
“I taught them military engineering, explosives, communications, nursing, trenches, vulnerable parts, how to hang another,” he confessed before the give.
He added that 10-year-old children were recruited and trained to commit all kinds of violent acts.
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He also indicated that he recruited a troop of indigenous people to whom he instructed to eat the guerrillas who demobilized from the Farc.
“I trained troops that ate people. That was secret. I was going to train cannibals for the day the others would go wrong”, said ‘Martín Sombra’ in the give.
He added that alias ‘Timochenko’ gave instructions to “shoot” minors that they regret joining the Farc.
JEP will also have in court ranchers who dispossessed land with violence
One of the darkest pages of the war in Urabá Antioquia was experienced in Tulapas, in the north of that sub-region. This area, made up of 58 villages distributed among the municipalities of TurboNecoclí and San Pedro de Urabá, was a paramilitary stronghold in the late 1990s.
Tulapas was a laboratory of terror for its inhabitants, who suffered, among many forms of violence, the dispossession of more than 40,000 hectares of landaccording to accounts of the Land Restitution Unit.
The maze to seize farms in the region and gain power was part of a network in which paramilitary threats to peasants and the work of people such as Sister Teresa Gómez, sister-in-law of the Castaño brothers and administrative head of that paramilitary housewhose final transaction reached the Fondo de Ganaderos de Córdoba, which knew -according to various versions- of the fraud to get hold of the land.
This Tuesday, December 6, Former directors of that fund and other allied civilian third parties will give collective testimony before the JEP Recognition Room to explain in detail this criminal pattern.
