Resistencia Civil Democratica - Terrorismo - Derechos Humanos

CHILDREN IN THE GUERRILLAS
NARCO-TERRORISTS OF COLOMBIA

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The Human rights and the Right Humanitarian International prohibit the participation of minor in the conflicts.

The Armed Forces and the National Police of Colombia follow butchers those prohibitions, because among their members they do not exist minor that participate in the conflict.

This is because the Colombian State is had it jeopardize with the Convention the International of Human rights, with additional Protocols I and II in the agreements of Geneva of 1949 and with the resolutions and declarations of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

The recruitment of minor by the groups narco-terrorists Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC and Army of National Liberation - ELN, is a serious violation of the Human Rights and an infraction to the Right Humanitarian International because:

1. They finish the familiar unit against the desire of the minor and his parents. 
2. They restrict the freedom of thought, conscience and religion of the minor. 
3. They interfere of an arbitrary way in its deprived life, its family and her form of life. 
4. In most of the cases the minors they undergo physical and mental abuses, bad treatments and operation. 
5. They restrict its rights to the education, the rest and the own recreation of its age. 
6. Finally, the minor ones are used in “dangerous works”, such as attacks to the civil populace, the Armed Forces and the National Police, and turn them informants in spite of their short age.

These children and young people not enjoy his childhood neither his youth and when they realize that has been enslaved by the guerrillas of the CRAF or the ELN and tries to escape, are shot.

The children recruited by these groups narco-terrorists are prostituidas and when they are pregnant must leave the guerrilla detachment, to go to a city where they must have an abortion, and if the situation of the guerrilla detachment does not allow it, they are forced to abort in the middle of the forest, without basic a medical aid, and exposing itself to be killed his.

Recruited Colombian children to the force by the narco-guerrilla of the CRAF.

Recruited Colombian children to the force by the narco-guerrilla of the FARC.

Colombian boy recruited by the narco-terrorist organization FARC, with a grenade launcher.

Photo taken by the newspaper El Pais, in November 23 of 1997, that shows a boy of very short age armed by the terrorist guerrilla.

Photo taken by the newspaper El Pais, in June 13 of 1999, that shows a boy of the terrorist guerrilla of Colombia.

Photo taken by the newspaper El Pais, in June 8 of 1999, that shows to guerrilla young people of the narco-terrorist guerrilla of the FARC.

Photo taken by the newspaper El Pais, in August 27 of 1998, that shows guerrilla young people in training.

Photo taken by the newspaper El Pais, in June 7 of 1998. The guerrillas narco-terrorist of the FARC and the ELN campaign of recruitment in schools and towns far from the capitals and with deceits and threats they take youngest, than they are to them “but cheap” that the greater ones.

In agreement with investigations of the General Office of the judge advocate general, in Colombia the 77,78% of the combatant minors of the narco-guerrilla of the FARC and the ELN have died or been mutilated.

In agreement with investigations of the General Office of the judge advocate general, in Colombia 60% of the combatant minors of the narco-guerrilla of the FARC and the ELN have been present at a murder, and 12% have participated in kidnappings.

This minor has received instruction with heavy equipment, which the terrorist guerrillas of the FARC make cruel incursions in populations and small villages.

Photo taken by the newspaper El Pais, in August 7 of 1999. This photo was taken in a formation from the organization narco-terrorist the FARC, in where the presence of a minor girl is observed. In agreement with the General Office of the judge advocate general, in Colombia 16% of the combatant children of the guerrilla of the FARC and the ELN have seen somebody being tortured.

Photo taken by the newspaper El Universal, in November 11 of 1998. This photo shows a girl mounting guard in a camping of the narco-guerrilla. In Colombia 83% of the combatant children of the communist guerrillas of the FARC and the ELN have closely together been of the death in agreement with the General Office of the judge advocate general.

Photo taken by the newspaper El Pais, in July 1 of 1999. Minor receiving instruction battle one. The participation of minor in combats against the troops and terrorist acts in populations of Colombia calculates that it arrives at the 96,66%.

Photo of February 26 of 1999. 27,7% of the minor ones recruited to the force by the guerrillas narco-terrorists of the FARC and the ELN have been hurt in combat and terrorist actions.

Photo yielded by the Armed Forces of Colombia. This boy was dead in a terrorist attack to a small town of Colombia.

From a video seized to the FARC the photo of this young boy was obtained.

Minor hurt in a combat with troops of the Army of Colombia.

Minor in military training with the FARC.

Guerrilla minor of the FARC.

Guerrilla minors of the FARC in formation.

Querrillero boy of the FARC.

Guerrilla youngster of the FARC.

Guerrilla minor of the FARC in an assaulted small town.

Hurt guerrilla minor in a combat is taken care of by nurses of the Army of Colombia.

Guerrilla youngster of the FARC.

Which is the future for these children and Colombian young people kidnapped and recruited to the force, with deceits and threats by the narcoterrorist organizations Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and Army of National Liberation (ELN)?

Responsible:
Army of National Liberation - ELN
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC

The children take the weight of the war in Colombia
Gonzalo Guillén
El Nuevo Herald, Miami
November 8 of 2002

Statistics and studies casual officers notice that the number of forced children to fight in the Colombian fronts of battle increases dramatically, in which could get to be one orgy of infantile blood without precedents in the country.

In agreement with the inventories that handle the Armed Forces, half of the rebels and paramilitary who have deserted of the Colombian internal war throughout this year are young, mainly farmers and natives between the 10 and 17 years of age.

The number agrees with investigations of the Defensoría of the Town and private organizations, who as much calculate in 50 percents the participation of minor in the rows of the leftist guerrillas as in the paramilitary self-defense of right.

Experts indicate that of one maintained armament race on a par, both forces encourage the intention to complete the sooner 100.000 soldiers each one with the purpose of being able to fight with effectiveness in near 10 geostrategic regions where they dispute the control of runners to make fast and constant movements of illicit troops, drugs and arms.

The foot of present force of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is considered in near 20.000 combatants and the one of the paramilitary United Self-defense of Colombia (AUC) in 17,000.

Both sides have grown in near the 100 percent during last four years. In agreement with the Program for the Humanitarian Attention to the Demobilized one, of the Presidency of the Republic, in 1999 102 combatants deserted of the different rebellious rows and of them five were solely young.

In the 2001 they laid down arms 327 and by then already 102 were small. Between January and October of the 2002 fugitive ones of the insurgency they added 986, of which 413 are infants. Although the desertions this year have increased like never, the recruitments also are growing.

The Army has known of cases in that the FARC has incorporated to their rows to amazonian indigenous children of Brazil and Peru in exchange for giving them to the families between $100 U.S. and U.S. $200.

Few days ago, an indigenous head of the Colombian amazonian region of Vaupés, bordering with Brazil, contacted with anguish the New Herald to inform to him that a group of rebels, presumably of the FARC, had recruited by the force to 20 adolescents who attended classes in a selvática school, and noticed that in two months they were more going to cross the small villages of the region in search of more infants for the war.

The indigenous young people constitute one of the greater jets of meat of tube for the rebels due to the marginality and defenselessness in which they are.

In agreement with the Defender of the Town, the survival of the indigenous communities of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, in the north of the country, is mainly in serious danger by an extermination plan to which they have them put under the paramilitary ones. According to UNICEF, most of the guerrilla and paramilitary children get up themselves voluntarily to the rows of those military organizations to elude and to try to surpass the acute misery and the internal violence in which their families develop.

Studies of that international organism have established that the attraction towards the use of the arms and a deceptive fantasy of freedom facilitates the entrance to them to the rebellious forces, of that later is to them difficult to leave because the evasion purge with the capital punishment. In addition, they establish among them bows of affection and love in pair that did not know in their families, bows that are narrowed in the middle of the brutalities of the war.

Bogotá
November 20 of 2002

	Of the 6,000 women who in average integrate the FARC and the Army of National Liberation - ELN, the 40 percent (that is to say, 2,500) is young whose ages oscillate between the 12 and the 17 years.
It is considered, also, that the majority nucleus of adult guerrilla women fluctuates between the 18 and 22 years of age.

Departament: Cauca
Municipality: Corinto
February 19 of 2003

The authorities of the municipality of Corinto, to the north of the department of the Cauca, denounced that the organization narco-terrorist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is using minors to maintain to sentimental relations with soldiers and police, and thus to accede to information that it has to be given to the rebellious group under capital punishment.
	In agreement with information of the Police, Natalie Osorio, 16 years old, is the third adolescent assassinated when refusing carry out an order distributed by the terrorist group.
Another girl who managed to escape of the persecution of the brigands and that is under judicial protection, denounced that she was forced to maintain romance with members of the public force to gain his confidence, and that was threatened of death if it did not obey the instructions of the terrorists.
Assassinated: NATALIE OSORIO, 16

Responsible:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC

Children, victims of the war in Colombia
March 7 of 2003

According to a special report of the Army of Colombia, a total of 250 minors died, was wounded or mutilated in which it goes of year 2003 as a result of acts of violence in the conflict armed in Colombia.
In the last two years died in Colombia 4077 minors in violent form, in agreement with the mentioned report, that mentions data of the National Legal Medicine Institute and of the organization nongovernmental “Coalition against the entailment of children and young people to the war”, and emphasizes that the vulnerable people but in the armed confrontation are the children and the adolescents, in the measurement in that are fatal victims of the antipersonnel mines, of the attacks on the part of groups armed illegal in countryside and at the moment they are meat of tube in the terrorist attacks that the country in the cities lives specially.

According to statistics, the departments of Antioquia, Valle del Cauca, Tolima, Meta and Santander are the regions where more violations against the childhood are registered.

Responsible:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Army of Nacional Liberation (ELN)
United Self-defense of Colombia (AUC)

The FARC recruits children for sexual abuse in Colombia
January 17 of 2004

A report given to the UN by the organization nongovernmental “Coalition To stop Using Minors as SoldiersWelded” with seat in London says that about 11000 smaller children of 14 years have been recruited by diverse groups armed in Colombia and that frequently they have used to the children with sexual aims.
In the chapter dedicated to Colombia, this ONG assures that young until of 12 years have been trained to use explosive and arms, and that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has forced the children to become lovers of adult combatants, to use contraceptives and to be put under abortions.
According to the ONG, it is known of adolescents who were kidnapped of amazonian tribes in Brazil and of the case of a boy of 10 years who acted in a suicidal attack.

With respect to the United Self-defense of Colombia (AUC), these continues recruiting smaller of 15 years although the international regulations stipulate that age like the recruitment minim.

Responsible:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC
Ejército de Liberación Nacional - ELN
United Self-defense of Colombia (AUC)

The FARC recruits indigenous minors in Guanía, Colombia
July 27 of 2004

The indigenous governor of the Greater Town hall of the Defense Average and High Inírida, department of Guanía, has denounced that the organization narco-terrorist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), recruited to the indigenous minors Hernando Sanchez Plowed, Rafel Dasilva, Wilmer Arara, Rodolfo Garci'a, Hernando Rodriguez, Leonel Rodriguez, Manuel Medina, Daniel Medina and Enrique Plowed of the ethnic groups Curripaco and Puinave in the department of Guanía.

The formal denunciation by “drafting” was made before Public Prosecutor 33 in Inirida, capital of the department.

Kidnapped:
HERNANDO SÁNCHEZ ARARA
RAFEL DASILVA
WILMER ARARA
RODOLFO GARCÍA
HERNANDO RODRÍGUEZ
LEONEL RODRÍGUEZ
MANUEL MEDINA
DANIEL MEDINA
ENRIQUE ARARA

Responsible:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC

The FARC recruits minors in Soacha, Colombia
Cundinamarca
August 19 of 2004

Taking advantage of the accomplishment in the Senate Colombia of the forum on the High humanitarian crisis that lives the sector on Cazucá, in Soacha, Cundinamarca, one distressed family mother denounced the recruitment of 300 minors on the part of the organization narco-terrorist Revolutionary Fuerzas Armadas of Colombia - FARC in that region.

According to the denouncer two months ago they recruited to the force between 35 and 40 nivos, including its son, Eider Andrés Galindo Caicedo, of 13 years of age. In single Cazucá, 260 young people have disappeared in the year and other 40 in the zone of San Cristóbal.

Responsible:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC

The AUC recruit minors in Villavicencio, Colombia
Meta
March of 2005

Cristian Camilo Cardenas, 12 years old, disappeared when he went from his house to the school in the district the Morichal, one of but the poor ones of Villavicencio, Meta. His cousin Marlon Andres Ortega, 15, also disappeared to the three days, and two children more of the district: Yordan Yamil Martinez, of 12 years, and another one of 11 years.

Cristian Camilo Cardenas	Yordan Yamil Martinez	Marlon Andres Ortega
In agreement with information they could be recruited to the force by a dissidence of the Squad Centauros of the United Self-defense of Colombia, that would not be the first time that recruits minor. It is known that at the moment is doing it in Puerto Lleras and Puerto Rico, department of Meta.
Kidnapped: CRISTIAN CAMILO CÁRDENAS, 12 años YORDÁN YAMIL MARTÍNEZ, 12 años MARLON ANDRÉS ORTEGA, 15 años

Responsible:
United Self-defense of Colombia (AUC)

They accuse the FARC to recruit children in Soto, Santander, Colombia
Bogotá
February 3 of 2006

The cupola of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was formally accused by the Office of the public prosecutor of the crimes of illicit recruitment of children and push them to break the law.

In combat operations of the Army in the middle of year 2001, in Soto, Santander, the troops stopped to around 50 children who integrated the mobile column “Arturo Ruiz” of that organization narco-terrorist.

According to information of the Office of the public prosecutor, the minors were taken to campings of the terrorists where they received military training.

Responsible:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC

Children in the guerrilla
June of 2006

After combats between troops of Army and guerrillas of 58 and 35 squads of Armed Forces Revolutionary of Colombia - (FARC) in department of Antioquia and Coast Atlantic, were seized to commanders guerrilla two computers with information that demonstrates to the high recruitment of minors on the part of that organization narco-terrorist and the cruel treatments and punishments to that the children are put under and where they take to the worse part the children, that are violated and put under in their sexuality, finally to force them to abort in conditions of high risk for its life.

'Alejandra' Age of Recruitment: 15	'Argenis' Age of Recruitment: 14	'Carolina' Age of Recruitment: 14

'Deisy' Age of Recruitment: 15	'Denis' Age of Recruitment: 14	'Elena' Age of Recruitment: 14

'Erika' Age of Recruitment: 13	'Gloria' Age of Recruitment: 14	'Karina' Age of Recruitment: 15

'Kelly' Age of Recruitment: 15	'Kelly' Age of Recruitment: 15	'Liliana' Age of Recruitment: 16

'Lorena' Age of Recruitment: 14	'Marcela' Age of Recruitment: 14	'Maribel' Age of Recruitment: 14

'Martha' Age of Recruitment: 14	'Merlys' Age of Recruitment: 15	'Milena' Age of Recruitment: 13

'Monica' Age of Recruitment: 14	'Paola' Age of Recruitment: 15	'Tania' Age of Recruitment: 14

'Veronica' Age of Recruitment: 15	'Viki' Age of Recruitment: 14	'Yamilet' Age of Recruitment: 14

'Yureli' Age of Recruitment: 14

Responsible:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC

Army rescues guerrilla girl left by the CRAF
Arauca
July 19 of 2006

Troops of Brigade 18 of the Army, with seat in the department of Arauca, rescued a guerrilla girl, who had been left 15 days back by her companions after a combat.

The small one that had a shot of gun in a leg, survived miraculously, during that time, gave to two guns with which it had been left, the ammunition and quartermaster equipment, that the bandits left left.

The girl, recruited to the force, recovers while she keeps the hope to meet again itself with his family.

Responsible:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC

FARC orders to recruit minors
Departament: Arauca
August 10 of 2006

In the last week, near 400 children, in agreement with information of the Function and position of agent of the municipality of Tame, department of Arauca, to the east of Colombia in limits with Venezuela, they have left the field before the announcement of Armed Forces Revolutionary of Colombia (FARC) and Army of National liberation (ELN), that are faced in that region from the month of last December.
According to the personero in the last week 60 families have been moved of their parcels, before the announcement of the guerrilla to take to the minors.
The Secretariat of Education of that Municipality informed that in less of eight days, 54 students, the all greater ones of 10 years, different and rural school did not return to schools classes in.

Also the attendance diminishes per days. According to the mayor of Tame, the greater problems are occurring in the paths El Botalón, Puerto Nidia, Cravo Charo, Costa Rica, La Arenosa, Puerto Jordán, Santo Domingo, Alto Cauca y La Arabia, where the confrontations between the guerrilla are frequent. In the municipality of Saravena, the function and position of agent at your service informed that in the last week a total of 80 families has arrived moved to that locality, fleeing from the narcotics detective guerrilla to recruit minors.

14000 CHILDREN IN ROWS OF ILLEGAL GROUPS
According to information of the Nations United for the Childhood (Unicef), in Colombia there are approximately 14000 children in the rows of the illegal armed groups.
Half of the minor ones would be part active of the combats, whereas the 7000 rest would comprise of the urban military services of the insurgent movements.
According to the Unicef, two of each three children who enter these groups are recruited before turning the 15 years. In spite of this, they assure that single the 14 percent of these minors enters these groups of forced way.

In agreement with the report, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), is the group with greater number of children in their rows.

Responsible:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC


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