'They are painting gold birds': Timochenko to ex-Farc

[Akrapovic]

The party chief asked the ex-guerrillas to sustain their commitment to peace.

Rodrigo Londoño reaffirmed his commitment to the peace process on Monday and called on the ex-combatants to continue along that path, regarding the dissent of de Iván Márquez ’,‘ Jesús Santrich ’and‘ Paisa ’.
Londoño, also known as Timochenko, sent an internal circular to the demobilized and the party militants to “ratify their personal commitment, which I acquired at the Tenth Conference of the Farc, in Yarí, that I will never leave the ship we approach together , by unanimously supporting what was agreed with the Colombian State regarding political solution to the conflict that bled Colombia. ”

In the letter, dated September 2, the former guerrilla leader said that the ship to peace will go through several storms, but that does not change his commitment.

In addition, he called to win the support of most Colombians, "because that is the only way to corner the enemies of peace."

“No peace agreement will be fulfilled without the support of the po[CENSORED]tion that forces the classes in power to make it happen. Even so, having achieved the single signature is already a victory, a flag to mobilize people, a whole plan to fight for reconciliation and the final construction of a peace with social justice. Who does not understand it, makes a serious mistake, ”he added.
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Regarding the return to arms of former guerrilla leaders, whom he called peace deserters, he said that they are looking for ex-guerrillas to follow them "in their erratic decision to return to war, even painting gold birds."

But Londoño said that during the 53 years of armed confrontation he was shown that peace is longed for in the country, "he hates war, he doesn't want more deaths, violence or persecution."
“We know that those who are called bosses today will not make war, that they will stay on the other side of the border. It will be his troops that bear the worst consequences. The extreme right is the only one that is happy about what happened with those former companions, so much so that it speaks of taking advantage of that to definitively cancel the peace agreements. The vast majority of our countrymen reject the return of the war, ”says the head of the Farc party.