The pronouncement of President Juan Manuel Santos, perceiving in Victims Act the existence of an armed conflict in Colombia, sparked a controversy at odds with the precepts of democratic security.
As expected, the leading opponent of such recognition was the former president, Alvaro Uribe Velez, who said on Twitter that "recognition of the conflict is to recognize the legitimacy of the terrorists." Santos met him immediately to the criticism, noting that his decision has nothing to do with the Colombian guerrillas to political status.
However, despite strong manifestaciones de Uribe y la firme posición de Santos, éste es un debate en el cual existe una teorización bien construida que deja a uno de los dos con clara desventaja en la exposición sus argumentos.
El Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR), en un documento publicado en 2008 y titulado “¿Cuál es la definición de "conflicto armado" según el Derecho Internacional Humanitario?”, despeja muchas de las dudas y confusiones que el ex presidente Uribe ha querido sembrar al revivir esta discusión. Allí se citan los Convenios de Ginebra de 1949 (de los cuáles Colombia hace parte) para explicar en qué condiciones se considera that a country suffers from what is known as NIAC (NIAC).
As is well exposed in the article, the term armed conflict in which a dispute "involving one or more non-governmental armed groups." But it also gives the title to the territory where the government is fighting other armed groups, a hierarchical and territorial domain. The same happens when the state "has to resort to military force against the insurgents, instead of relying solely on the police force."
Considering the current state of order American public, there are great similarities between the Geneva Conventions and the armed conflict in Colombia, since long before the government of Alvaro Uribe, Colombia has been the scene of territorial disputes that have faced guerrillas and right-wing armies as the AUC.
However, the former president uses his achievements of "eradication" of the paramilitaries to clarify that such disputes are "a thing of the past." Argument does not work for you, if you consider that an armed conflict also occurs when military forces fighting the insurgency, as explains the ICRC.
Uribe would have to deny, then, the existence of a hierarchical and the FARC guerrillas, fighting the organization and employment of the Armed Forces of Colombia (pillar of security democratic) to fight against what he called terrorism.
But it does not, not only because he knows that is not true, but because it is aware that it would disrupt the reckless speech has given him so many followers. That is why , despite knowing the implications the conflict, prefer to change the label, creating misinformation in the national public opinion and creating a climate of fear among Colombians.
This does not mean he is unaware of the Geneva Conventions, but prefers to ignore. And ignored the recidivism schematic of paramilitaries in Colombia and the killing of the Armed Forces who, incidentally, also fall into the triggers for recognition of the conflict.
However, his recent pronouncements have a different character verging on helplessness, it is not Uribe, who makes the decisions, but Santos. And with the recognition that the President made the conflict not only reaffirms the distance with the previous government, but evidence of a change in national security policy, more respectful of the ICRC and international humanitarian law.
@ rincondesantos
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