The Colombian government should keep track of right-wing paramilitary fighters who surrender as part of peace talks to ensure they do not return to combat, former Defense Minister Rafael Pardo told a Miami audience Wednesday. Pardo, now a Colombian senator, took part in a seminar at the University of Miami on the peace talks between President Alvaro Uribe’s government and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, the umbrella paramilitary group known as the AUC. ”They need to be given options for employment, to help them. Otherwise they will have no other choice but to return to committing atrocious crimes,” Pardo told the group. Full Story
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