17,000 paramilitary fighters may rearm: ex AUC commander

[Judi Lynn]

17,000 paramilitary fighters may rearm: ex AUC commander
Saturday, 27 November 2010 08:07 Adriaan Alsema

Former paramilitary leader Jorge Ivan Laverde, alias "El Iguano," says fellow former paramilitary leaders are suspending all collaboration with Colombian justice after the Constitutional Court ruled that 17,000 fighters can not be excluded from prosecution.

In an interview with Caracol Radio, Iguano said the peace process that led to the disarmament of the AUC in 2005 and 2006, "the way it is going, is going really bad. The concern of these 17,000 men that are demobilized is that they are one step away of being arrested and don't know what to do."

According to Iguano, the thousands of paramilitary fighters may rearm "because the government did not provide a real reintegration."

The former paramilitary commander added that "these men of who they now took the principle of opportunity were guards of the AUC, they did not take part in crimes against humanity like we did."

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