The members of the FARC Secretariat must recognize before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) the cases of slavery and forced labor to which the hostages were subjected as punishment.
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Faced with this, the guerrilla commanders have a period of ten working days to acknowledge before the Truth Room of the JEP these behaviors that they constitute crimes against humanity.
The determination was made by accepting a request from the Attorney General’s Office that indicates that within the kidnapping policy established by the Farc, the kidnapped were forced to carry out these forced labor “concurrently” with people who were kidnapped.
The members of the Secretariat who continue to be part of the peace agreement must accept this practice within the case “Taking hostages and other serious deprivation of liberty.”
For the Public Ministry there are 70 documented cases of kidnapping victims who were forced to perform forced labor, the most affected being for this phenomenon the peasants and transporters.
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In its report, the Attorney General’s Office found a pattern of conduct in the victims’ accounts, which allowed it to show that many people were forced to transport guerrillas and to carry out agricultural activities as forms of illegitimate punishment.
In addition, several cases were documented in which the victims were commercialized between the guerrillas and common crime, exercising property attributes over people.
The Attorney General’s Office indicated in a statement that this is the first time that this type of act has been imputed as part of a generalized and systematic pattern of attacks directed against the civilian population, committed by the FARC guerrillas.
